Le nid des Marsupilamis
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Spirou et Fantasio #12 Le nid des Marsupilamis |
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Cover of the Belgian edition |
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Publisher | Dupuis |
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Date | 1960 |
Series | Spirou et Fantasio |
Creative team | |
Writer(s) | Franquin |
Artist(s) | Franquin with Jidéhem |
Original publication | |
Published in | Le Journal de Spirou |
Issue(s) | #969 - #991 #1034 - #1045 |
Date(s) of publication | 1956 - 1957, 1958 |
Language | French |
ISBN | ISBN 2-8001-0014-1 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Le gorille a bonne mine, 1959 |
Followed by | Le voyageur du Mésozoïque, 1960 |
Le nid des Marsupilamis, written and drawn by Franquin, is the twelfth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The title story, and another, La foire aux gangsters, were serialised in Spirou, before the release in a hardcover album in 1960.
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[edit] Story
In The Nest of the Marsupilamis, Seccotine invites Spirou and Fantasio to a screening of her new documentary film, revealing what she has been doing since last seen in Palombia (in Le dictateur et le champignon). The film follows a Marsupilami in the wild, as he discovers and courts a mate, and they form a family in need of care and protection.
In The Gangsters' Fair, Spirou and Fantasio are unexpectedly assaulted by a small martial arts-expert, Soto Kiki, who wants to train them in judo in order to act as bodyguards for the European visit of oil tycoon John P. Nut, a man with gangster enemies. All changes as the gangsters attempt to assassinate Soto Kiki, and kidnap the millionaire's infant son.
[edit] Background
Since the stories of this album were produced some time apart, the protagonists abruptly shift from driving their Turbotraction:Turbot-Rhino I in the first story, and the Turbot 2 in the second.
Gaston Lagaffe features in his third Spirou adventure cameo in La foire aux gangsters. The version of this album differs slightly from the one serialised in Spirou, in that a final half-page has been removed, leaving the quite brutal epilogue of Soto Kiki's revenge untold.
Franquin created Le nid des Marsupilamis - which features extensive parenting sequences - while his wife Liliane expected their first child.[1]
[edit] References
- Franquin publications in Spirou BDoubliées (French)
Footnotes
- ^ franquin.com. Une vie - 1956 (French).
[edit] External links
- Spirou official site album index (French)
- Franquin site album index (French)
- Final page of La foire aux gangsters on InediSpirou (French)