''Capturez un Marsupilami!'', written and drawn by André Franquin, is a comic album containing the adventures and short gags of the Marsupilami. Although not collected in one album until 2002, the contents are the earliest works of the original artist, from publications in ''Risque Tout'' and ''Spirou (magazine), Spirou'' magazine, and therefore given the number 0 in the series of ''Marsupilami'' albums.

Story

*''Le Marsupilami descend sur la ville'' (''The Marsupilami Goes to the Village''), 1955 *''Noël d’un bagarreur'' (''A Warrior's Christmas''), 1956 *''La bûche de noël'' (''The Work of Christmas''), 1957 *''Touchez pas aux rouges-gorges'' (''Don't Touch the Robins''), 1956 *''Les patins téléguidés'' (''The Remote-controlled Rollerskates''), 1957 *''Le homard'' (''The Lobster''), 1957 *''Tarzan'' (previously named ''Houu Bai''), 1977 *''La cage'' (''The Cage''), 1965 #1420 *''Capturer un marsupilami'' (''To Capture a Marsupilami''), 1977-1981 and 15 short gags from 1968 to 1972

Background

For the 50th anniversary of the character, Marsu Productions assembled this album, composed of the majority of Franquin's Marsupilami solo stories. ''Touchez pas aux rouges-gorges'' and ''La cage'' had been included in ''Spirou et Fantasio'' albums, but other stories were previously published in varied forms of ''Spirou'' context. This release also collects Franquin's two stories featuring the intrepid poacher List of characters in Spirou et Fantasio#Bring M. Backalive, Bring M. Backalive, and a story featuring the secondary ''Spirou et Fantasio'' character Le Petit Noël. The album's title was given by the title of the final story, ''Capturer un Marsupilami'', but the Grammatical tense, verb tense is changed from infinitive to imperative mood, imperative, ''"to capture"'' to ''"capture!"''. This album was first published in Scandinavia in the 80s (titled as ''Å fange Spiralis'' in Norway, ''Jag Marsupilami'' in Sweden, and ''Spirillen'' in Denmark).

References

Franquin publications in ''Spirou''
BDoubliées ;Footnotes

External links

Marsupilami official site albums

Franquin site Marsupilami albums
2002 graphic novels Comics by André Franquin Spirou et Fantasio albums Works originally published in Spirou (magazine) Marsupilami {{FrancoBelgian-comics-stub