''Spirou et Fantasio'', written and drawn by
Franquin (except for a few plates by
Jijé
Joseph Gillain (), better known by his pen name Jijé (; 13 January 1914 – 19 June 1980), was a Belgian comics artist, best known for being a seminal artist on the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' strip (and for having introduced the Fantasio character) a ...
), is an
album
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that precedes the main ''
Spirou et Fantasio
''Spirou & Fantasio'' (french: Spirou et Fantasio, wa, Spirou eyet Fantasio) is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comics. The series, which has been running since 1938, shares many characteristics with other European comics, European ...
'' album series. It contains Franquin's first four stories completed between 1946 and 1948, three of which were serialised in ''
Spirou'' magazine.
Stories
* ''Fantasio et son tank''.
Fantasio buys a demobilized tank from an American soldier, and accidentally destroys the neighborhood with it.
Spirou and the neighborhood boys help with repairs.
* ''La maison préfabriquée''. Fantasio becomes a salesman of seaside prefabricated houses.
* ''L'heritage de Spirou''. Spirou inherits from a deceased uncle, a strange house with secrets.
* ''Le Savant fou''. (Also called ''Radar le robot'') Spirou joins Fantasio on a journalistic trip, and they see a car with no driver causing panic in town. Following this invention, they meet an insane scientist, who has built a robot with the goal to destroy the world.
Background
The first story, ''Le Tank'', is the very first 12 board "test" story Franquin drew to convince Jijé of his abilities, which was later printed in ''Spirou almanache 1947'' of 1946. The following story, ''La maison préfabriquée'', is the episode Jijé famously had begun in ''Spirou'' issue #422, but handed over to Franquin, to continue five boards into the work from issue #427.
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Although this album is not regarded as part of the official series and was never republished, its four stories are all printed and available in the ''hors-série'' albums, HS1 ''L'héritage'' and HS2 ''Radar le robot''.
Footnotes
Sources
Franquin publications in ''Spirou''BDoubliées
* ''Les Mémoires de Spirou'' Thierry Martens, Jean-Paul Tibéri, Dupuis, 1989. 160 pp.
References
External links
Spirou official site album index
Franquin site album index
Comics by André Franquin
Spirou et Fantasio albums
1948 graphic novels
1948 comics debuts
Works originally published in Spirou (magazine)
Literature first published in serial form
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