Tembo Tabou

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Spirou et Fantasio #24
Tembo Tabou

Cover of the Belgian edition

Publisher	Dupuis
Date	1974
Series	Spirou et Fantasio

Creative team
Writer(s)	Franquin with Greg
Artist(s)	Franquin with Jean Roba

Original publication
Published in	Le Parisien Libéré, Le Journal de Spirou
Issue(s)	Unknown, #1721 - #1723, #1420
Date(s) of publication	1959, 1971
Language	French
ISBN	ISBN 2-8001-0351-5

Chronology
Preceded by	Tora Torapa, 1973
Followed by	Le Gri-gri du Niokolo-Koba, 1974

Tembo Tabou, written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin and Jean Roba, is the twentyfourth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the twentieth under Franquin's authorship. The story was initially serialised in Le Parisien Libéré, and later in Le Journal de Spirou, before it was released, along with the Marsupilami story La Cage, as a hardcover album in 1974.

1 Story
2 Background
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Story

In Tembo Tabou, Spirou and Fantasio find themselves on another expedition travelling upstream an African river, in search of vanished American author Oliver Gurgling Thirstywell. Events become increasiongly more strange when they discover red elephants, befriend a pygmy tribe, learn of Marsupilami's love of eating warrior ants, and confront a gang of "protection racket" thugs who cultivate meat-eating plants.

The story The Cage cronicles an awful day at work for intrepid poacher Bring M. Backalive, obsessed with capturing a living sample of a baby Marsupilami, who learns the cost of angering a Marsupilami father.

[edit] Background

In the 70s, Swedish publishing house Carlsen Comics deemed the story's contents to be racially offensive, and the album was never published in Sweden.^[1]

The title story of this album was produced in the period between the making of Spirou et les hommes-bulles and QRN sur Bretzelburg.