Jolly Jumper is a horse character in the Franco-Belgian comics series Lucky Luke, created by Belgian artist Morris. Described as "the smartest horse in the world" and able to perform tasks such as chess-playing and tightrope walking, Jolly Jumper accompanies his master in their travels across the Wild West, and delivers frequent quips.
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Jolly Jumper first appeared along with Lucky Luke in the story Arizona 1880, published in the Almanach issue of the comics magazine Le Journal de Spirou on December 7, 1946.[1] In his earlier appearances, he was more like a real horse, which started to change after René Goscinny became the series' main writer.
Jolly Jumper is a white horse with a brownish spot on his left side. He dislikes dogs, as seen in Sur la piste des Daltons where he continuously directs mean comments to the unintelligent prison-dog Rantanplan. Extraordinarily apt and anthropomorphic the character is very resourceful in adventure and crises, and mischievous as in Le Bandit Manchot, when he beats Lucky Luke in a dice game, winning the role-reversal to be carried on Lucky Luke's back.
Jolly Jumper also serves as the ironic yet smart voice talking from the series' background.