''Lucky Luke'' is a

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'' series created by Belgian cartoonist

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in 1946. Morris wrote and drew the series single-handedly until 1955, after which he started collaborating with French writer

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. Their partnership lasted until Goscinny's death in 1977. Afterwards, Morris used several other writers until his own death in 2001. Since Morris's death, French artist Achdé has drawn the series, scripted by several successive writers. The series takes place in the

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of the United States. It stars the titular Lucky Luke, a street-smart gunslinger known as the "man who shoots faster than his shadow", and his intelligent horse

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. Lucky Luke is pitted against various villains, either fictional or inspired by American history or folklore. The most famous of these are

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, loosely based on the

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of the early 1890s and claimed to be their cousins. The stories are filled with humorous elements parodying the

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. ''Lucky Luke'' is one of the best-known and best-selling comics series in Europe. It has been translated into 23 languages. 82 albums have appeared in the series as of 2022, and 3 special editions/homages, at first published by

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. From 1968 to 1998 they were published by

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and then by Lucky Productions. Since 2000 they have been published by Lucky Comics. Each story was first serialized in a magazine: in '' Spirou'' from 1946 to 1967, in ''

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'' from 1968 to 1973, in ''Lucky Luke'' in 1974–75, in the French edition of ''

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'' in 1975–76, and in various other magazines since. The series has also had adaptations in other media, such as animated films and television series, live-action films, video games, toys, and board games. As of 2022, all 82 books in the series' regular albums will be available in English translation.

Publication history

Simultaneously a tribute to the mythic Old West and an affectionate

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, the comics were created by Belgian artist Morris, who drew ''Lucky Luke'' from 1946 until his death in 2001. The first ''Lucky Luke'' adventure, ''Arizona 1880'', appeared in the French version of the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou'' in December 1946. It later appeared in the ''Almanach'' issue of ''Spirou'' on 7 December 1946. After several years of writing the strip himself, Morris began a collaboration with

. He was the series writer during what is considered its golden age, starting with the story , published on 25 August 1955 in ''Spirou'', until his death in 1977 (with the exception of ). Ending a long run of serial publications in ''Spirou'', the series was shifted to Goscinny's ''

'' magazine in 1967 with the story . Later it was taken to

publisher. After the death of Goscinny in 1977, several writers succeeded him: including Raymond "Vicq" Antoine,

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, Jean Léturgie and

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, ''Lucky Luke'' was given an honorary exhibition. After Morris' death in 2001, French artist Achdé continued drawing new ''Lucky Luke'' stories in collaboration with writers Laurent Gerra, Daniel Pennac and Tonino Benacquista. Since 2016, new albums are scripted by writer Jul. Lucky Luke comics have been translated into:

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The stories

Overview

Although always described as a

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, Luke generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his on-hand resourcefulness and incredible gun prowess. A recurring task is that of capturing the bumbling but menacing gangsters the

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, Joe, William, Jack and Averell. He rides

, "the smartest horse in the world" and is often accompanied by prison guard dog

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, "the stupidest dog in the universe", a spoof of

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. Luke meets many historical Western figures such as

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Billy the Kid Billy the Kid (born Henry McCarty; September 17 or November 23, 1859July 14, 1881), also known by the pseudonym William H. Bonney, was an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West, who killed eight men before he was shot and killed at t ...

, Judge

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and

Jesse James Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the " Little Dixie" area of Western Missouri, James and his family maintained stro ...

's gang, and takes part in events such as the guarding of

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es, the

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, the building of the

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, the Rush into the

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, and a tour by French actress

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. Some of the books feature a one-page article on the background to the events featured. Goscinny once said that he and Morris tried to base the Lucky Luke adventures on real events whenever possible, but that they would not let the facts get in the way of a funny story. The chronology of the albums is deliberately murky, and in most albums no particular year is given. The villains and incidental characters based on real persons lived over most of the mid-to-late-19th century. For example, in the album ''Daily Star'', Lucky Luke meets a young

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, prior to his moving to New York in 1831. Judge

, who was appointed judge in 1882, appears in another album, and in another album yet, Lucky Luke takes part in the 1892 Coffeyville shootout against the

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. Lucky Luke himself appears unchanged in all stories. Except in the first few stories, where he shoots and kills Mad Jim and the old Dalton brothers gang in Coffeyville, Luke is never seen to kill anyone, preferring to disarm people by simply shooting weapons out of their hands. Phil Defer was killed in the first publication in ''Le Moustique'', but in the later album collection, this was changed into a debilitating shoulder wound. In the final panel of each story, except the earliest, Lucky Luke rides off alone on Jolly Jumper into the sunset, singing (in

) "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, and a long way from home...".

Historical figures who have appeared in ''Lucky Luke''

Smoking controversy

Morris, who had been criticized over Lucky Luke's

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for a long time, answered his critics: "the cigarette is part of the character's profile, just like the pipe of

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". It is claimed that Morris was forced to remove cigarettes Lucky Luke smokes from his strip and Lucky Luke who "used to be a heavy smoker", had to give up smoking for "commercial reasons", apparently to "gain access to the American market". Morris received an award from the

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in 1988 for replacing Luke's omnipresent cigarette with a wisp of straw in the story ''Fingers'' (1983). In the 2007 animated film ''Tous à l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke'', Lucky Luke is seen using what appears to be a

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and mentions that before that he had to "chew on a piece of straw for a while" right after he quit smoking. In the 1994 story ''Le Pont sur le Mississippi'' (''The Bridge Over the Mississippi''), he is seen rolling a cigarette again, although he claims it was just to hide his boredom. And in ''Sarah Bernhardt'' (1982), when Bernhardt's cook lights a fire to make a cake, despite Luke's strict orders not to, Luke is seen rolling a cigarette in an irate mood. He then strikes a match, only for it to be blown out by Jolly Jumper, who reminds him of his own "no fire" orders.

Spin-off series

A spin-off series called ''

'' starring Luke's dimwitted canine sidekick began in 1987. It has been written over the years by several successive teams of writers and artists. The character also got a 76-episode animated television series in 2006. A second spin-off series called ''Kid Lucky'' was designed in 1995, aimed at attracting a younger readership. This starred Luke as a little boy, a format that had been very popular with Spirou. Two albums starring this version of the character were released as part of the main series: ''Kid Lucky'' and ''Oklahoma Jim''. These were credited to veteran writer Jean Léturgie and unknown artist Pearce, who was later revealed to be a joint pen name for Yann Lepennetier and

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. The series was scrapped due to poor sales and the two albums removed from the official list of Lucky Luke albums. The series was however re-launched in 2011 as ''Les aventures de Kid Lucky d'après Morris'', with Achdé now solely in charge of it. To date, Achdé has written four Kid Lucky albums, ''L'apprenti Cow-boy'', ''Lasso périlleux'', ''Statue Squaw'' and ''Suivez la flèche'', released in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017, respectively. In June 2020, It was announced ''Kid Lucky'' will be adapted into an animated series.

Collected editions

By Morris (1949–1958)

Dupuis Publishing

By Morris & Goscinny (1955–1977)

Dupuis Publishing

Dargaud Publishing

Between ''Le Fil qui chante'' and ''La Corde du pendu'' is ''

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'', 1978 (''The Daltons' Ballad or The Ballad of the Daltons''), an adaptation from the animated film.

By Morris and various writers (1980–2002)

Dargaud Publishing

Lucky Productions

Lucky Comics

By Achdé and various writers (since 2004)

Lucky Comics

''Kid Lucky'' spin-off

# , 2011 (''Cowboy in Training'') # , 2013 (''The Dangerous Lasso'') # ''Statue Squaw'', 2015 # , 2017 (''Follow the Arrow'') # , 2019 (''Kid or Double'')

Special editions and homages

*, 2016, by Matthieu Bonhomme (''The Man Who Shot Lucky Luke'') * , 2017, by Guillaume Bouzard (''Jolly Jumper Stops Responding'') * , 2019, by Mawil (''Lucky Luke Saddles Up'') *''Lucky Luke: Wanted'', 2021, by Matthieu Bonhomme (''Wanted Lucky Luke'') *, 2021, by Ralf König (''Swiss Bliss'').

English translations

Apart from the collections mentioned below, Lucky Luke comics were published in British comic book magazines such as ''Film Fun Comic'' or ''

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'' (in 1967). The ''

'' version had Luke's name changed to "Buck Bingo". Brockhampton Press Ltd, Leicester, began publishing the books in hardcover and softcover, with six titles from 1972 to 1974, translated by Frederick W Nolan. Brockhampton became part of Hodder & Stoughton Ltd in 1976, and under their children's imprint, Knight Books, Hodder published mini-sized paperback editions of the first six books, in 1976 to 1977. In 1980 and 1982, Hodder & Stoughton published three new titles as Hodder Dargaud, as well as reprints of the previous six.

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have been publishing English language translations of Lucky Luke in

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album format since 2006. One new volume is released every two months. In India only, Euro Books, a division of Euro Kids International Ltd. published English versions of 24 Lucky Luke titles in 2009. In 2019 Cinebook began releasing a hardcover collection of ''Lucky Luke'', published in chronological order featuring three to four original albums per volume together with a vast amount of extras included, titled ''Lucky Luke – The Complete Collection.'' Cinebook also published translations of the two Matthieu Bonhomme homages: ''Wanted Lucky Luke'' (2016) and ''The Man Who Shot Lucky Luke'' (2021). List of single albums in English

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(UK) *''

'', 1972 *''The Stagecoach'', 1972 *'' Dalton City'', 1973 *'' The Tenderfoot'', 1974 *'' Western Circus'', 1974 *''

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'', 1974 Knight Books (UK) *''The Stagecoach'', 1976 *'' Dalton City'', 1976 *''

'', 1976 *'' The Tenderfoot'', 1976 *''

'', 1977 *'' Western Circus'', 1977 Hodder Dargaud (UK) *'' Ma Dalton'', 1980 *''Curing the Daltons'', 1982 *'' The Dashing White Cowboy'', 1982

USA and Canada *''The Stage Coach'', US, 1980s *''The Greenhorn'', US, 1980s *'' Dalton City'', US, 1980s *''

'', US, 1980s *'' Western Circus'', US, 1980s *'' Ma Dalton, US, 1980s *''The Dalton Brothers' Analyst'', Canada, 1982 *''Curing the Daltons'', Canada, 1982

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(US) *''The Stage Coach'', 1990s *''

'', 1990s Ravette Books (UK) *''The Dalton Brothers Memory Game'', 1991 Glo'worm (UK) *''

'', 1998 *'' Dalton City'', 1998 *'' Ma Dalton'', 1999 *''

'', 1998 *'' The Tenderfoot'', 1999 *'' Western Circus'', 2000 *'' The Dashing White Cowboy'', 2000

# ''

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'', 2006, # ''

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'', 2006, # '' Dalton City'', 2006, # ''

'', 2006, # '' In the Shadow of the Derricks'', 2007, # '' Ma Dalton'', 2007, # '' Barbed Wire on the Prairie'', 2007, # ''

'', 2007, # '' The Wagon Train'', 2008, # ''

Tortillas for the Daltons A list of comics albums featuring the character Lucky Luke, written and drawn by Morris. ''La Mine d'or de Dick Digger'' ''La Mine d'or de Dick Digger'', written and drawn by Morris, is an album containing two stories from serial publica ...

'', 2008, # '' Western Circus'', 2008, # ''

The Rivals of Painful Gulch ''Les Rivaux de Painful Gulch'' is a ''Lucky Luke'' adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the nineteenth book in the series and it was originally published in French in 1962 . English editions of this French series have ...

'', 2008, # '' The Tenderfoot'', 2008, # '' The Dashing White Cowboy'', 2008, # '' The Daltons in the Blizzard'', 2009, # '' The Black Hills'', 2009, # ''

'', 2009, # '' The Escort'', 2009, # '' On the Daltons' Trail'', 2009, # '' The Oklahoma Land Rush'', 2009, # '' The 20th Cavalry'', 2010, # '' Emperor Smith'', 2010, # '' A Cure for the Daltons'', 2010, # '' The Judge'', 2010, # '' The Stagecoach'', 2010, # '' The Bounty Hunter'', 2010, # '' Lucky Luke versus Joss Jamon'', 2011, # '' The Dalton Cousins'', 2011, # ''

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'', 2011, # '' The Daltons' Escape'', 2011, # ''Lucky Luke versus the Pinkertons'', 2011, # '' Rails on the Prairie'', 2011, # ''The One-Armed Bandit'', 2012, # '' The Daltons Always On The Run'', 2012, # '' The Singing Wire'', 2012, # '' The Daltons Redeem Themselves'', 2012, # ''Fingers'', 2012, # ''

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'', 2012, # ''The Man from Washington'', 2013, # '' Phil Wire'', 2013, # ''The Daily Star'', 2013, # ''Lone Riders'', 2013, # '' The Bluefeet are coming!'', 2013, # '' Lucky Luke versus Pat Poker'', 2013, # ''Tying the Knot'', 2014, # ''The Pony Express'', 2014, # ''

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'', 2014, # ''

Dick Digger's Gold Mine A list of comics albums featuring the character Lucky Luke, written and drawn by Morris. ''La Mine d'or de Dick Digger'' ''La Mine d'or de Dick Digger'', written and drawn by Morris, is an album containing two stories from serial publ ...

'', 2014, # ''The Daltons' Amnesia'', 2014, # ''Seven Stories'', 2014, # ''The Painter'', 2015, # ''The Beautiful Province'', 2015, # ''Nitroglycerin'', 2015, # ''

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'', 2015, # ''

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'', 2015, # '' Under a Western Sky'', 2015, # ''Legends of the West'', 2016, # ''The Daltons' Stash'', 2016, # ''Bride of Lucky Luke'', 2016, # '' The Ballad of the Daltons and other stories'', 2016, # '' Daisy Town'', 2016, # ''The Cursed Ranch'', 2016, # ''

'', 2017, # ''The Wedding Crashers'', 2017, # ''Ghost Hunt'', 2017, # ''The Promised Land'', 2017, # ''Belle Starr'', 2018, # ''Bridge Over the Mississippi'', 2018, # ''Kid Lucky'', 2018, # ''The O.K. Corral'', 2018, # ''A Cowboy in Paris'', 2018, # ''Marcel Dalton'', 2019, # ''The Prophet'', 2019, # ''The Klondike'', 2020, # '' Rin Tin Can's Inheritance'', 2020, # ''Oklahoma Jim'', 2020, # ''A Cowboy in High Cotton'', 2020, # ''The Dalton Uncles'', 2021, # ''Steaming up the Mississippi'', 2021, # ''The Alibi'', 2021, # ''The Hanged Man's Rope and Other Stories'', 2022, # ''Rin Tin Can's Ark'', 2022, Eurokids (India) # ''The Alibi'', 2009, # ''Ghost Hunt'', 2009, # ''Kid Lucky'', 2009, # ''Oklahoma Jim'', 2009, # ''The Prophet'', 2009, # ''Belle Star'', 2009, # ''The Klondike'', 2009, # ''The Pony Express'', 2009, # ''Sarah Bernardt'', 2009, # ''The bridge on the Mississippi'', 2009, # ''The Hanged Man’s Rope and other stories'', 2009, # '' The Ballad of the Daltons and other stories'', 2009, # '' Daisy Town'', 2009, # ''Fingers'', 2009, # ''Marcel Dalton'', 2009, # ''The Artist'', 2009, # ''The legend of the west'', 2009, # ''The Daily Star'', 2009, # ''Lucky Luke's fiancé'', 2009, # ''Nitroglycerine'', 2009, # ''The Cursed Ranch'', 2009, # ''The Beautiful Province'', 2009, # ''From the Gallows to the Altar'', 2009, # ''The Dalton’s Loot'', 2009,

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# ''The Man Who Shot Lucky Luke'', 2016 # ''Cowboy in Training'', 2017 # ''Dangerous Lasso'', 2017 # ''Statue Squaw'', 2017 # ''Follow the Arrow'', 2019

Lucky Luke in other media

Films

Animation

*Goscinny directed and co-produced two animated Lucky Luke films: **'' Daisy Town'' (1971) ** (1978) *The French company

Xilam Xilam is a French production company that specializes in animated television series and feature films. Marc du Pontavice and his wife Alix founded it in 1999 as a replacement for the animation division of Gaumont Multimédia; though Gaumont ...

produced a theatrical animated film: ''

Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'' (french: Tous à l'Ouest: Une Aventure de Lucky Luke) is a 2007 French animated western comedy film directed by Olivier Jean-Marie from a screenplay penned by Jean-Marie and Jean-François Henry with the kind ...

'' (5 December 2007)

Live-action

There are a number of feature adaptations from various countries, including: *Turkish films: ** (1970), starring Izzet Günay ** (1975), starring Sadri Alışık *Italian films, both starring

Terence Hill Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with longtim ...

: **''

Lucky Luke ''Lucky Luke'' is a Western ''bande dessinée'' series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946. Morris wrote and drew the series single-handedly until 1955, after which he started collaborating with French writer René Goscinny. Their par ...

'' (1991) **''Lucky Luke 2'' (1991) *French films, both produced by Saïd Ben Saïd and Yves Marmion: ** (2004), featuring

Til Schweiger Tilman Valentin Schweiger (; born 19 December 1963) is a German actor, voice actor and filmmaker. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, in Berlin. Early life Schweiger was born in Freiburg, West Germany, to two teachers. He grew ...

as Lucky Luke (one of the most expensive European films ever made) **''

''(2009), starring French actor

Jean Dujardin Jean Edmond Dujardin (; born 19 June 1972) is a French actor and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in Paris before guest starring in comedic television programmes and films. He first came to prominence with the cult TV series ...

as Lucky Luke *Iranian films: **''The Return of Lucky Luke'' (2015), featuring Siavash Kheirabi as Lucky Luke

Television

In 1983,

Hanna-Barbera Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ) was an American animation studio and production company which was active from 1957 to 2001. It was founded on July 7, 1957, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera following the decision of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to c ...

Productions,

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, Extrafilm Berlin and Morris collaborated to release the animated TV series ''

'' which ran for 26 episodes, based on original album stories. The series' main voice actors were

William Callaway William Ronald Callaway (born March 11, 1940) is an American retired voice actor. He is also known as Bill Callaway and Bill Calloway. He is known for playing Aquaman in ''Super Friends''. Filmography Animated roles * '' Aladdin'' - Zarasto * ' ...

as Lucky Luke,

Robert Ridgely Robert Ridgely (December 24, 1931 – February 8, 1997) was an American actor, known for both on-camera roles and extensive voice-over work. Biography Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, Ridgely worked as a cabaret entertainer.Staff"Robert Ridgely, 65 ...

as Jolly Jumper,

Paul Reubens Paul Reubens (; born Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and children's entertainer. He is known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s, an ...

as Bushwack,

Frank Welker Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. He began his career in the 1960s, and holds over 860 film, television, and video game credits as of 2022, making him one of the most prolific voice actors of all time. With ...

as Joe Dalton,

Rick Dees Rigdon Osmond Dees III (born March 14, 1950), best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show '' The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Coun ...

as Jack Dalton,

Fred Travalena Frederick Albert Travalena III (October 6, 1942 – June 28, 2009) was a U.S. entertainer, specializing in comedy and impressions. Early life Bronx, New York-born and Long Island-raised, Travalena moved to Los Angeles and developed a multi ...

as William Dalton, Bob Holt as Averell Dalton, and

Mitzi McCall Mitzi McCall is an American comedian and actress. Life and career Television In the early 1950s, then known as Mitzi Steiner, McCall had the ''Kiddie Castle'' program on KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received national attention in 1 ...

as Ma Dalton. Additional voices were provided by

Peter Cullen Peter Claver Cullen (born July 28, 1941) is a Canadian voice actor. He is best known as the voice of Optimus Prime in the original 1980s ''Transformers'' animated series, reprising the role many times since 2007. He has also voiced many other c ...

Pat Fraley Patrick Howard Fraley (born February 18, 1949) is an American voice actor and voice-over teacher, known as the voice of Krang, Casey Jones, Baxter Stockman and numerous other characters in the 1987 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' animated tele ...

Barbara Goodson Barbara Goodson is an American voice actress who has done voice-over work in cartoons and shows. Her best-known role was providing the English dub voice of the main villain Empress Rita Repulsa in the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, starting with ' ...

, and

Mona Marshall Mona Marshall is an American voice actress, known for her work in a number of cartoons, anime shows, films and video games. Her major credits include ''South Park'', where she voices many of the female characters on the show; '' Fraggle Rock: The ...

. Notably, an episode of H-B's ''

The Huckleberry Hound Show ''The Huckleberry Hound Show'' is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and the second series produced by the studio following ''The Ruff and Reddy Show''. The show first aired in syndication on September 2 ...

'' featured Huck as an Old West Sheriff attempting to capture a separate Dalton family (named Dirty, Dangerous, Detestable, Desperate, Despicable, Dastardly and Dinky) In 1990, a new animated series of 26 episodes was produced by IDDH, with the collaboration of Morris, based on album stories not adapted in the prior series. The 1992 live-action Italian television series, ''

'', also known as ''The Adventures of Lucky Luke'', was based on the films of the previous year, and again starred Terence Hill. In 2001,

produced the 52-episode animated series (''

The New Adventures of Lucky Luke ''Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke'' (English: ''The New Adventures of Lucky Luke'') is a 2001-2003 animated television series based on the Franco-Belgian comic book series of the same name created by Belgian cartoonist Morris. 52 episodes ...

''). It was made available on an eight-disc DVD set with French and English audio tracks. This series also featured Colonel

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who in this incarnation is an Indian-hater and a dwarf. Unlike the two earlier animated series, this series featured original stories. Xilam produced two further animated series involving Lucky Luke: ''Rintindumb'' (2006) and (2010). Mediatoon Distribution produced ''Kid Lucky'' (2020).

Video games

Over the years, several ''Lucky Luke'' video games have been released for many platforms, most of them by

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, and only released in Europe (the only ones released for the North American market were the

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and

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versions). A Lucky Luke game was also developed for mobile phones by The Mighty Troglodytes. ''Lucky Luke: Go West'' was released in Europe for the PC,

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and

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in the end of 2007. In 2013, French publishers Dupuis and

Anuman Interactive Microids (formerly Microïds) is a French video game developer and publisher based in Paris. Founded in 1985 by Elliot Grassiano, it attained early success with games published through Loriciel in France and other partners (including Activision ...

announced the development of a new Time Management game: ''Lucky Luke: Transcontinental Railroad'' (set in the 1860s) on PC, Mac,

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and Android. * ''Lucky Luke'' – Tiger Handheld – 1984 * ''Lucky Luke: Nitroglycerine'' – Coktel Vision, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Thomson TO – 1987 * ''Lucky Luke: The Video Game'' – Philips Interactive,

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– 1996 * ''Lucky Luke'' – Infogrames, Game Boy (Europe only) – 1996 and Game Boy Color - May 1999 * ''Lucky Luke'' – SNES and PC (Europe Only) – October 1997 * ''Lucky Luke'' – Infogrames, PlayStation – 1998 and Windows (Europe only) – 2000 as ''Lucky Luke: On the Dalton's Trail'' * ''Lucky Luke: Desperado Train'' – Game Boy Color (Europe Only) – 2000 (

) * ''Lucky Luke: Western Fever'' – PC and PlayStation (Europe only) – 2001 * ''Lucky Luke: Wanted!'' – Game Boy Advance (Europe only) – 11 February 2001 (Infogrames) * ''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'' – DS, PC, Wii – 2007

Tributes to Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke statue in parc Reine Astrid, Charleroi (DSCF7707)

In the

Belgian Comic Strip Center The Belgian Comic Strip Center (french: Centre belge de la Bande dessinée; nl, Belgisch Stripcentrum) is a museum in Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to Belgian comics. It is located at 20, /, in an Art Nouveau building designed by Victor Horta, ...

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

the permanent exhibition brings homage to the pioneers of

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, among them Morris. In the room dedicated to his work the entry has saloon doors and Luke's shadow can be seen on the floor and on the wall. In 1992, as part of

Brussels' Comic Book Route Brussels' Comic Book Route (or ''The comic strip route in Brussels'') is a path composed by several comic strip murals, which cover the walls of several buildings throughout the inner City of Brussels, as well as the neighborhoods of Laeken and Au ...

, a wall in the Rue de la Buandrie/ Washuisstraat in Brussels was dedicated to Lucky Luke. It was designed by D. Vandegeerde and G. Oreopoulos. Since 2007 the Rue des Pierres/ Steenstraat in Brussels has a

commemorative plaque A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, or in other places referred to as a historical marker, historic marker, or historic plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, typically attached to a wall, stone, or other ...

with the name / placed under the actual street sign. In

Charleroi Charleroi ( , , ; wa, Tchålerwè ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593.

, Belgium, a statue of Lucky Luke can be seen in Astrid Park. The nearby

Charleroi Metro Charleroi Metro (french: Métro de Charleroi; previously known as the ''Charleroi Premetro'' (french: Métro léger de Charleroi)) is a light rail network in Belgium, consisting of a loop line around central Charleroi and three branches towards ...

station Parc is also decorated with scenes of Lucky Luke. In 2000, statues of Lucky Luke, Ratanplan and Joe Dalton were erected in the ,

Middelkerke Middelkerke () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders, on the North Sea, west of Ostend. The municipality comprises the villages of Leffinge, Lombardsijde, Mannekensvere, Middelkerke proper, Schore, Sint-Pieters-Kapell ...

, Belgium. They were designed by Luc Madou. In 1993, French rapper

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released his song with references to Lucky Luke and the Daltons. In the 2010

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developed and

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published '' Fallout: New Vegas''. Posters appear in the game, as well as in some loading screens, stating "There's a new sheriff in town and he's looking for deputies ... Become a part of the human dignity bloc". Accompanying this text is an image of a frontier-era

sheriff A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England where the office originated. There is an analogous, although independently developed, office in Iceland that is commonly transla ...

doing a

finger gun The finger gun is a hand gesture in which a person uses their hand to mimic a handgun, raising their thumb above their fist to act as a hammer, and one or two fingers extended perpendicular to it acting as a barrel. The middle finger can also ac ...

motion with both hands. Aside from the star-shaped sheriff badge he wears, the sheriff is dressed identically to Lucky Luke, sporting his trademark white hat, yellow shirt, black vest, and red bandana tied around his neck. In 2015, Danish

reggaeton Reggaeton (, ), also known as reggaetón and reguetón (), is a music style that originated in Panama during the late 1980s. It was later popularized in Puerto Rico. It has evolved from dancehall and has been influenced by American Hip hop m ...

band Camilo & Grande released a single titled "Lucky Luke", in which they liken their lives to that of Lucky Luke. In 2022, the Belgian government included a tribute to Lucky Luke in the visa pages of its newly redesigned

passport A passport is an official travel document issued by a government that contains a person's identity. A person with a passport can travel to and from foreign countries more easily and access consular assistance. A passport certifies the personal ...

. It features a blank silhouette of Luke and Jolly Jumper in

Monument Valley Monument Valley ( nv, Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, , meaning ''valley of the rocks'') is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, the largest reaching above the valley floor. It is located on the Utah-Arizona s ...

, with the full detail of the characters being revealed under UV light.

Notes

References

''Lucky Luke'' publications in ''Spirou''
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BDoubliées

External links

''Lucky Luke'' official site

English publisher of ''Lucky Luke'' - Cinebook Ltd

* * In Brussels,

is dedicated to ''Lucky Luke''.

Goscinny website on ''Lucky Luke''

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