Les voleurs du Marsupilami

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Spirou et Fantasio #5
Les voleurs du Marsupilami

Cover of the Belgian edition

Publisher	Dupuis
Date	1954
Series	Spirou et Fantasio

Creative team
Writer(s)	Franquin Jo Almo, idea
Artist(s)	Franquin

Original publication
Published in	Le Journal de Spirou
Issue(s)	#729 - #761
Date(s) of publication	1952
Language	French
ISBN	ISBN 2-8001-0007-9

Chronology
Preceded by	Spirou et les héritiers, 1952
Followed by	La corne de rhinocéros, 1955

Les voleurs du Marsupilami, written and drawn by Franquin, is the fifth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, resuming development of the Spirou universe where the previous Spirou et les héritiers left off. After serialisation in Le Journal de Spirou, it was released as a complete hardcover album in 1954.

1 Story
2 Background
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Story

In The Marsupilami's Thieves, Spirou and Fantasio regret giving the magnificent animal they brought back from the Palombian jungle, the Marsupilami, to a zoo, and decide to free the animal again and return it to its original home. This plan fails because someone else beats them to the abduction, and another quest to find the Marsupilami begins. This journey brings them to the city of Magnana, and the fiendish Circus Zabaglione.

[edit] Background

As a direct (and slightly less fantastic) sequel to the previous album, Les Voleurs contain several memorable episodes, including the intermezzo at the border station, and Spirou and Fantasio's circus disguise act as Cam & Leon, with some help from the science of the Count of Champignac.

Football player Valentin Mollet, introduced in this story, is another "shifting" character in Spirou et Fantasio. Initially a villain - he steals the Marsupilami for money to support his family - he repays Spirou et Fantasio for giving him a second chance and ends up saving the day.

Jo Almo, a pseudonym for Geo Salmon, is credited for idea work.