Spirou and Fantasio (Franquin period)

The adventures of Spirou and Fantasio were managed by several authors. This article in detail approaches the period Franquin which runs of 1946 to 1968, year during which Franquin ceased its contribution with the series.

To note that the prépublications were done in the Newspaper of Spirou in the editor Dupuis.

Stories

Fantasio and its tank

Prépublication : Almanac Spirou 1947 , 1946; 12 Board S
Album: Spirou and Fantasio , 1948; republication in Fished youth No 1 the Heritage , 1976
Résumé: Fantasio buys with a American Soldat demobilized a Tank. Its control will cause many catastrophes, that Spirou and Fantasio will repair, helped of the boys of the district. Fantasio founds a demolition contractor.
N.B.: It is chronologically about the first adventure drawn by Franquin, then tested by the editor.

Prefabricated houses

Co-autor (S) : Jijé begins this history that Franquin begins again with the 5th board in a drawing where Spirou and Fantasio start to run after a plan which has just escaped with their hands…
Prépublication: Jijé: No 422 (23.05.46) with No 426 (13.06.46); Franquin: No 427 (20.06.46) with No 442 (03.10.46); 16 boards
Album: Album Spirou and Fantasio , 1948; republication in Fished youth No 2 Radar the robot , 1977
Résumé: Fantasio becomes salesman of houses prefabricated at the seaside and Spirou accompanies it. The incidents are connected, even a shipwreck on the open sea. Spirou believes during a certain time that his/her friend disappeared forever. In the republication Fished youth No 2 Radar the robot , a drawing was modified when Fantasio, after its shipwreck, will acquire clothes in a tailor: the original drawing is a doubtful caricature of Juif.

The pharmacist débrouillard

Titre : Also indexed under the pharmacist
Prépublication: No 443 (10.10.46); 1 board
Album: Neither publication nor republication

Spirou and the old woman

Prépublication : No 444 (17.10.46) to 447 (07.11.46); 4 boards
Album: Neither publication nor republication

A tale of Christmas

Titre : Also indexed under the visit of Saint Nicolas
Prépublication: No 448 (14.11.46) to 452 (12.12.46); 5 boards
Album: Neither publication nor republication

The heritage of Spirou

Prépublication : No 453 (19.12.46) to 491 (11.09.47); 39 boards
Album: Album Spirou and Fantasio , 1948; republication in Fished youth No 1 the Heritage , 1976
Résumé: Spirou inherits an uncle deceased, namely a strange house which contains secrecies. Those bring Spirou and Fantasio in Africa to find the treasure of the uncle, to consume with moderation…
N.B.: In this history, Fantasio makes state for the first time of its trade of Journaliste.

Spirou with the beach

Prépublication : No 492 (18.09.47) to 495 (09.10.47); 4 boards
Album: Neither publication nor republication

The insane scientist

Titre : Also indexed under Radar the robot
Prépublication: No 496 (16.10.47) to 521 (08.04.48); 26 boards
Album: Album Spirou and Fantasio , 1948; republication in Fished youth No 2 Radar the robot , 1977
Résumé: Fantasio takes along Spirou for a report. But there is more interesting in the village where they are: a car without pilot sows panic. Spirou will go up to its owner, an insane scientist, helped of sound Robot, Radar. The scientist want to destroy the world and Spirou and Fantasio will save it…

Spirou and plans of the robot

Prépublication : No 522 (15.04.48) to 540 (01.08.48); 15 boards
Album: No 1, Four adventures of Spirou and Fantasio , 1950
Résumé: Spirou decided to make disappear the plans from the Robot which it considers dangerous but gangsters are faster than him and Fantasio to seize some. Are followed from there insane continuations, destruction of the documents, removal of the inventor, with an exit obviously favorable for the world.
N.B.: the insane Scientist and Spirou and the Plans of the robot form only one and even ventures.

Spirou on the boxing ring

Prépublication : No 541 (26.08.46) to 566 (17.02.49); 26 boards
Album: No 1, Four adventures of Spirou and Fantasio , 1950
Résumé: The malicious Poildur boy launches a challenge in Spirou, in a match of Boxe. The two sportsmen involve themselves, Spirou with the assistance of Fantasio. Environment and suspense climb in the district near the teenagers. Spirou overcomes its adversary in spite of the cheatings of this one. Finally, they tighten the hand and devote the receipt of the match to the financing of a sports hall.
N.B.: One which age can wonder can have well Spirou which weighs 40,8 kg?

Made Spirou of the horse

Prépublication : No 567 (24.02.49) to 574 (14.04.49); 8 boards
Album: No 1, Four adventures of Spirou and Fantasio , 1950
Résumé: Fantasio enough snob takes along his friend Spirou to make Cheval. The incidents will follow one another.

Spirou among Pygmies

Prépublication : No 589 (28.07.49) to 616 (02.02.50); 27 boards
Album: No 1, Four adventures of Spirou and Fantasio , 1950
Résumé: Spirou tames a leopard found in wood. He and Fantasio bring back it on its native island in Africa, where a war between tribes Pygmy S. Finalement prevails, of the traffickers of weapons are thwarted and any cost in the order.

Black hats

Prépublication : No 617 (09.02.50) to 635 (15.06.50); 19 boards
Album: NO3, black hats , 1952
Résumé: Spirou and Fantasio are sent in report to the country of the Cow-boy S. American will make them reach this world of legend and Spirou and Fantasio live adventures full with bounces, gangsters, Colts and brawls, until they learn the truth on their mishaps.
N.B.: This history gives its name to the album, which also includes/understands two stories carried out by Jijé, the Men frogs and Like a fly with the ceiling

Mystery at the border

Prépublication : No 636 (22.06.50) to 652 (12.10.50); 17 boards
Album: NO3, black hats , 1952
Résumé: Spirou and Fantasio inquire into a traffic of Stupéfiant S through the border. They discover the inventive method of the gangsters.

There is a wizard with Champignac

Co-autor (S) : Scenario of Jean Darc alias Henri Gillain
Prépublication: No 653 (19.10.50) to 685 (31.05.51); 57 boards
Album: No 2, There is a wizard with Champignac , 1951
Résumé: Spirou and Fantasio leave to make camp-site with Champignac. Strange events occur there and they discover finally that the person in charge is not a poor gipsy as everyone likes it to think but the count de Champignac itself, the notable one of the village, highly skilled scientist in the field of the Champignon S. Thanks to an injection, the force of Fantasio is overgeared, but only for some heures.
Les days which follow, the count made speak about him in the Média S by gaining various sporting tests. Spirou and Fantasio meet it again, at the moment when the X1 products - that which gear down the physical capacities - and X2 - which makes age in a few hours - are catch. They inquire and finish by discovering the robber who wanted to put at his profit the potentialities of these two formulas.

Spirou and heirs

Prépublication : No 693 (26.07.51) to 726 (13.03.52); 59 boards
Album: No 4, Spirou and the heirs , 1952
Résumé: Fantasio inherits his/her uncle deceased. The will reveals with the cousins Fantasio and Zantafio that they have tests to succeed before touching the héritage.
La first test imposes the invention of a new apparatus. Fantasio and Spirou develop the fantacoptère, a small portable and individual helicopter. Zantafio makes build a very fast and flying Vespa. Fantasio is declared victorious of this étape.
La second test must see them being classified in a race of Grand Prix of cars. It is Zantafio which gains, thanks to means douteux.
La third and last test commits them to discover an animal, the marsupilami, if rare that even the dictionaries do not make state of it. Finally, an article in a specialized work sends them in South America, in Palombie. They discover in the virgin forest a curious mottled animal with long tail and succeed in bringing back it to Europe. Fantasio gains the contest and touches a philosophical heritage….

Robbers of the marsupilami

Co-autor (S) : Idea of OJ Almo alias Geo Salmon
Prépublication: No 729 (03.04.52) to 761 (13.11.52); 58 boards
Album: NO5, robbers of the marsupilami , 1954
Résumé: The marsupilami depresses in the zoo to which he was entrusted. It disappears from the day at the following day, obviously a removal. Spirou and Fantasio launch out to the continuation of the kidnappers. They follow a track which brings them in the town of Magnana abroad. They find there the kidnapper, the Football or Valentine, which inform them to have sold the marsupilami with a cirque.
In order to be able to approach the marsupilami, the new attraction of the circus Zabaglione, they are made initially engage like odd-job mans then, thanks to a pill of the count de Champignac, as artists. They take again finally possession of the removed animal.

Spirou and the turbotraction

Prépublication : No 764 (04.12.52) to 787 (14.05.53); 43 boards
Album: No 6, the horn of the rhinoceros , 1955
N.B.: First part of the commonly named adventure the Horn of the rhinoceros ; to see following sub-chapter.

The horn of the rhinoceros

Prépublication : No 788 (21.05.53) to 797 (23.07.53); 18 boards
Album: No 6, the horn of the rhinoceros , 1955
Résumé: Fantasio takes along Spirou for a report of night in a department store. They meet there the pilot Roulebille, the Seccotine journalist as two Gangster S. Roulebille entrusts an envelope containing of the plans to them and they flee. They go to the place indicated to meet Martin, another pilot, and to give the envelope but this last to him went in Africa.
Spirou and Fantasio arrive to North Africa and quickly realize which they are followed, by the two gangsters of the department store. Seccotine joined them. They continue to seek Martin, whom they find finally, but wounded. This one indicates to them that it gave the complement of the plans to a chief of a tribe indigenous. Spirou and Fantasio go to its village and the chief teaches them that it hid the Microfilm S in… the horn of an rhinoceros! … but which? Spirou and Fantasio find the documents so much required and receive like gratification Turbo.
N.B.: See also preceding sub-chapter.

The dictator and the mushroom

Co-autor (S) : Idea of Maurice Rosy
Prépublication: No 801 (20.08.53) to 838 (06.05.54); 60 boards
Album: No 7, the dictator and the mushroom , 1956
Résumé: Spirou and Fantasio go to Champignac where they are accommodated by the count who shows them his new invention worked out containing Champignon S: a Gas which dissolves the metals. The marsupilami seizes the instrument and will sow panic downtown…
Spirou and Fantasio decided to bring back the marsupilami in South America. Arrived in Palombie, the new Head of the State convenes them with his palate: it is about the cousin of Fantasio, Zantafio, which commits them becoming executives of its army. After an outward journey return in Prison to have refused, Spirou and Fantasio make him believe that they adhere to its ideas of conquest but, in fact, they will destabilize the dictator thanks to the métomol, the gas which dissolves metals, with the assistance of Seccotine. After Zantafio escaped, Spirou and Fantasio bring back the marsupilami in the Jungle, but it stuck to them…

The bad head

Prépublication : No 840 (20.05.54) to 869 (09.12.54); 53 boards
Album: No 8, the bad head , 1957
Résumé: Fantasio is of bad mood because it does not find photographs passport of him. In the evening, the misunderstandings against him are added: a burglarized jeweller identifies it as being his robber, then Spirou sees it on line with the Télévision concealing an Egyptian mask in Or. The following day, Fantasio clamp its innocence with Spirou and the police force, then it escapes. Spirou discovers in the neighbor of Fantasio of the strange material as well as a bust of Fantasio and surprises curious characters. It of deduced especially that the latter manufactured a mask with the effigy of Fantasio to make the flights of the précédent.
Fantasio day reappears, then the police force launches out to its continuation while him and Spirou truths robbers pursue. For this purpose, Fantasio is even made pass for a racing cyclist in a race. Spirou discovers that the true person in charge is Zantafio, the cousin of Fantasio, and that the Egyptian mask of great value was hidden at a particularly subtle place…

The den of murene

Prépublication : No 871 (23.12.54) to 904 (11.08.55); 60 boards
Album: No 9, the den of the murene , 1957
Résumé: Spirou and Fantasio spend the holidays to Champignac when they learn that a price will be allotted to the researcher who will allow to plunge to 200 meters of depth. the count de Champignac is made a Piqûre of X4 to solve the problem. The three friends are registered with the contest. The strange problems and incidents start then…
Finalement, the construction of individual prototypes of Sous-marin S can be completed, like their test, and the development of a new gas mixture for the deep water diving gives satisfaction. Spirou and Fantasio however see another machine under water…
Ils meet the creator of the price, the Hamadryas ship-owner, who informs them that the final goal is to reach a stray belonging to him, lying with 200 meters. The tests continue and Spirou reached the wreck and penetrates there. Gangsters await it and explains to him that this den is used with the traffic as Drogue. The marsupilami saves Spirou. The chief of the gangsters, John Hélena, is stopped. Hamadryas reveals with this one that the wreck contains a fortune in ingots of Or and associates it with its objective to recover them. The police force intervenes at the last minute thanks to Spirou and Fantasio.

Super Quick

Prépublication : No 907 (01.09.55) to 915 (27.10.55); 16 boards
Album: No 10, pirates of silence , 1958
Résumé: Fantasio lays out of an American car to test it and make a report for the newspaper Moustique . There is in this moment downtown of many flights of cars of this type and Spirou and Fantasio will be mixed in spite of them there. Whereas they however pay attention, their American disappears under their eyes. The persons in charge will be known heads of our heroes…

Pirates of silence

Co-autor (S) : Scenario of Maurice Rosy, decorations of Will
Prépublication: No 916 (03.11.55) to 940 (19.04.56); 44 boards
Album: No 10, pirates of silence , 1958
Résumé: Whereas Fantasio is informing Spirou which it is sent to Incognito-City to carry out a report on this discrete city which accommodates the largest stars and the peace promises to them, the marsupilami, which should be with Champignac, arrives in their garden, exténué.
Spirou and Fantasio arrives at Incognito-City, after some first incidents. Before beginning the report with the means, in particular, from a miniaturized camera, they will bring back a test-tube to its owner met to the outward journey. They also see other doubtful characters there…
Subrepticement, they discover that the marsupilami has, a such Mainate, the capacity to repeat sentences courtes.
Fantasio, but also the count de Champignac, was removed and, thanks to the marsupilami, Spirou can find them. It proves that they intervene into full in the preparation with a holdup of great scale in Incognito-City by means of a soporific gas invented by the count. The three friends thwart the plot.

The gorilla has good mine

Prépublication : No 944 (17.05.56) to 966 (18.10.56); 40 boards
Album: No 11, the gorilla has good mine , 1959
Résumé: Spirou and Fantasio leave in Africa for a report on the Gorille S. Arrivés at an intermediate stage, almost all the people present, adventurous, minor, African chief, disadvise to them going further. Forwarding through bush and jungle nevertheless is started, but of the strange incidents occur. They arrive finally where the gorillas live and can begin work from report. They fall on an unused mine and include/understand that a traffic of Or was set up, more for a long time…
N.B.: The Congo is not named in the history, but it is reproduced very clearly on the door of the vehicle of Spirou and Fantasio.

The nest of the marsupilamis

Prépublication : No 969 (08.11.56) to 991 (11.04.57); 40 boards
Album: No 12, the nest of the marsupilamis , 1960
Résumé: Spirou and Fantasio will attend a conference of Seccotine on the marsupilami S. the film all will present on their lifestyle, how they are nourished, defend, meet a companion or a partner, found a family, in the jungles of the South America.

The traveller of the Mesozoic one

Prépublication : No 992 (18.04.57) to 1018 (17.10.57); 47 boards
Album: No 13, the traveller of Mesozoic the , 1960
Résumé: In full glacial zone, the count de Champignac makes a miraculous discovery and brings back it in Europe. It is about an egg of Dinosaure preserved since more than 60 million years, of the Mesozoic era . As he thinks that it is possible to make it hatch and come to the life, Champignac invited large scientists for the seconder.
Le dinosaur is born and an accident makes him ingurgiter a mushroom extract which accelerates the process of ageing. The following day, the dinosaur is adult. The incidents thus will follow one another with, in particular, transfered downtown of the dinosaur and the intervention of the Armée. Then the things will return in the order, tourist…

The lobster

Prépublication : No 1004 (11.07.57); 2 boards
Album: Fished youth No 2 Radar the robot , 1977
Résumé: A gag on the sunstrokes.

Holidays without stories

Prépublication : No 1023 (21.11.57) to 1033 (30.01.58); 19 boards
Album: No 11, the gorilla has good mine , 1959
Résumé: A few days of holidays for Spirou and Fantasio, with their very beautiful Turbotraction… A emir in love with the beautiful cars - owner of Turbotraction also - but extremely awkward is mistaken in car, takes that of Spirou and Fantasio and destroys it completely. To be made forgive, it offers to our heroes new Turbot 2, and accepts in exchange the old crock full of gadgets that Fantasio had acquired in meanwhile.

The fair with the gangsters

Co-autor (S) : Decorations of Jidéhem
Prépublication: No 1034 (06.02.58) to 1045 (24.04.58); 21 boards
Album: No 12, the nest of the marsupilamis , 1960
Résumé: An Asian enters to Spirou and, without shouting station, valser in the airs by means of a key of Judo sends it. After the arrival of Fantasio, the Japan board explains to them why he requests them to become bodyguards of the child of an American richissime and, as they accept, than he will form them with the martial art of the judo. The child is removed: Spirou and Fantasio will solve the case, will deliver the child and will discover that it was about a business more subtle than envisaged…
N.B.: Gaston Lagaffe appears in this history.

The prisoner of the Buddha

Co-autor (S) : Scenario of Greg, decorations of Jidéhem
Prépublication: No 1048 (15.05.58) to 1082 (08.01.59); 61 boards
Album: No 14, the prisoner of the Buddha , 1960
Résumé: Spirou and Fantasio arrive at Champignac, observe curious phenomena in the park of the castle and are accommodated by the count in a rather distant way. That hides in fact the secret presence of a researcher to the Russian name, Nicolas Inovskyev, inventor of an apparatus to the functions as multiple as impressive, the G.A.G. Incidents reveal then the presence of foreign agents as well as the imprisonment in Asia of the other Co-inventor of the G.A.G., American Harold W. Longplaying.
Spirou and Fantasio, as well as the count and Inovskyev, leave in Hoïnk-Oïnk to go to deliver the scientist retained in an adjoining country. The mission is not whole rest and they arrive finally in the valley of the seven Bouddha S where Longplaying is. Thanks to the G.A.G., but also to much of chance, they manage to deliver the prisoner, not without causing some damage on their way.
N.B.: Two agents obviously English, with moustache and declads Jumeau X, constitute a sympathetic nerve homage to the Dupondt of Hergé.

Spirou and man-bubbles

Co-autor (S) : collaboration of Jean Wrapped with the drawing
Prépublication: In the Parisian one Released , end of the year 1950; no publication in the Newspaper of Spirou ; 20 boards corresponding to 30 pages
Album: No 17, Spirou and the man-bubbles , 1964
Résumé: The gangster John Hélena says murene escapes. With Champignac, Spirou, Fantasio and the count de Champignac take note of it by evoking the gold which still remains in the wreck of the cargo liner Discrete the , a memory of their last adventures (cf the Den of the murene ). They also learn that a individual Sous-marin was catch. In order to counter Héléna, they go at the seaside where other submarines have just been manufactured. They are accommodated there by a richissime, Mister d' Oups.
Spirou and Fantasio undertake monitorings near the Discret and observe odd events under water, like the appearance of a Vache. With ground, Héléna is found and mentions that " the man-bubbles attack ". Gold is also récupéré.
Spirou replonge with the submarine and is attacked by underwater bubbles. Then he discovers a den with ground and is struck. He awakes in the presence of Oups, under water, where a secret city was built. Our friends commit themselves maintaining the secrecy.
N.B.: The notorious alcoholic of Champignac, Dupilon, finds himself as by magic to 700 km of Champignac, witness of the escape from Héléna.

Small sizes

Co-autor (S) : Collaboration of Jean Wrapped with the drawing
Prépublication: In the Parisian one Released , end of the year 1950, then in the Spirou : No 1272 (30.08.62) to 1302 (28.03.63); 30 boards
Album: No 17, Spirou and the man-bubbles , 1964
Résumé: With Champignac, Fantasio disappears after having led photographs to develop. Spirou finds a small statuette of his/her friend and, because of the incredible realism of the object, believes that his/her friend was miniaturized. In the businesses of Fantasio, it finds the coordinates of a specialist in the head shrinker Jivaros living in Champignac that Fantasio intended to interview for a report. In this explorer, Spirou discovers miniaturized objects and is persuaded to have discovered the culprit. It proves thereafter that the person in charge of the miniaturizations is the photographer of the village, inventor of a novel method of photography in three dimensions, but which makes the people photographed amnesic. One finds soon Fantasio in a close city and he is cured.

Tembo taboo

Co-autor (S) : scenario of Greg, collaboration of Jean Wrapped with the drawing
Prépublication: In the Parisian one Released , 1959, then in Spirou : No 1721 (08.04.71) to 1723 (22.04.71); 30 boards
Album: No 24, Tembo taboo , 1974; the album is supplemented with the history the cage ( Spirou No 1420) as well as an about eight gags of the marsupilami
Résumé: Spirou and Fantasio are in Africa for a report, during which that one believes to see elephant S bright red. Then they are actually confronted with an elephant of red color, but it is about painting. They decide to inquire into this mystery and are accommodated soon by a tribe of Pygmy S, which reveals to them that they have a tribute to pay with the " seigneurs". It proves that gangsters benefit from the weaknesses of the autochtones to tap their gold to them, situation that Spirou and Fantasio quickly will regulate.
N.B.: Neither Spirou nor Fantasio refer to the fact that they already met in their life of the tribes Pygmies. To note that there is only one box in all the history which introduces two female characters, of the matrons, in addition to the two plants carnivores named Carmen and Beatrice, if not it is an adventure " 100% mâles"!

Fear at the end of the wire

Co-autor (S) : Scenario of Greg, decorations of Jidéhem
Prépublication: No 1086 (05.02.59) to 1092 (19.03.59); 13 boards
Album: No 13, the traveller of Mesozoic the , 1960
Résumé: the count de Champignac, while calling Spirou to announce a good news to him relating to the formula X4, ingurgite by error a harmful residue: its behavior becomes extremely strange. Spirou and Fantasio leave to help it. In its Madness, Champignac warps quasi terrorist acts in its small town…

Z like Zorglub

Co-autor (S) : Scenario of Greg, decorations of Jidéhem
Prépublication: No 1096 (16.04.59) to 1136 (21.01.60); 61 boards
Album: No 15, Z like Zorglub , 1961
Résumé: Fantasio sees its behavior changing during a few hours after having used an electrical appliance: he learns that it one is named Zorglub which to show its scientific power. Then is with the turn of Spirou to be influenced by a wave. the count de Champignac comes to them to assistance and it proves that it knows the instigator of these changes. Zorglub returns visit in Champignac and is made put at the door. Zorglub then continues to prevail in trimmings in order to decide the count to join his crusade. Fantasio is removed and programmed to become a zorglhomme , a person who loses all free will. Spirou and the count leaves to release it and join it in a small village which be " zorglhommisé". They deliver everyone and Zorglub recognizes its errors after having launched its last work, of publicity on the the Moon.

Shade of Z

Co-autor (S) : Scenario of Greg, decorations of Jidéhem
Prépublication: No 1140 (18.02.60) to 1183 (15.12.60); 60 boards
Album: No 16, shade of Z , 1962
Résumé: Spirou, Fantasio and the count de Champignac return from Zorgland on board Zorglumobile. In Champignac, during their absence, most of the population was paralyzed by means of the Zorglonde: they will solve this problem by capturing the responsible zorglhomme and while looking after the people immobilisées.
Les month pass then Zorglub made its reappearance to Champignac. He learns with his adversaries that one of its bases still exists. After its departure, Spirou, Fantasio and the count can follow to the Zorglub trace which joined its last base in Palombie. Zorglub finances its actions by using the Zorglonde on the populations autochtones. Among its frameworks Zantafio appears which diverts with its profit the capacity technological of its chief. Spirou, Fantasio and the count overcome Zorglub and Zantafio, which still has time to use a new weapon on its chief, and release all the zorglhommes.

QRN on Bretzelburg

Co-autor (S) : Scenario of Greg, decorations of Jidéhem
Prépublication: Under the original title QRM on Bretzelburg , No 1205 (18.05.61) to 1237 (28.12.61) and No 1304 (11.04.63) to 1340 (19.12.63); 65 boards
Album: No 18, QRN on Bretzelburg , 1966
Résumé: Fantasio has a new passion, the radio S, and the marsupilami swallows of it a miniaturized specimen which causes then interferences near a close radio amateur. This one, Marcellin Switch, the formless one that one of its contacts, king de Bretzelburg, is in danger. A misunderstanding makes that Fantasio is removed by agents of this small pays.
Au Bretzelburg, king Ladislas is weak and the Schmetterling general benefits from it to direct of an iron hand the pays.
Spirou and Switch arrive in the kingdom and undertake turn to deliver Fantasio. The marsupilami flees of the hospital where it was looked after and crosses the Europe to join and help its Masters. In spite of the very great poverty of the country, Schmetterling pushes the king to be armed against the adjoining country, threatening, directed by prince Farfalla and makes him sign contracts for this purpose. Fantasio escapes from the fortress where it was retained and him and Spirou discover the plot: Schmetterling and Farfalla are only one and even nobody who occupies himself to plunder the two states, Bretzelburg and Maquebasta. All returns in the order and the princess president of Maquebasta and the king of Bretzelburg approach in a future marital union.
N.B.: Two agents bretzelburgois, with moustache and declads Jumeau X, constitute a sympathetic nerve homage to the Dupondt of Hergé. To note that as well Schmetterling as Farfalla mean " butterfly " in French (the malicious ones of this history are besides of the French).

Cheer brothers

Prépublication : No 1435 (14.10.65) to 1455 (03.03.66); 22 boards
Album: No 19, Panade in Champignac , 1969
Résumé: To the Newspaper of Spirou, Gaston Lagaffe offers to Fantasio three Singe S scientists left a Cirque. The catastrophes will follow one another in the offices. Curious a small man makes a fast appearance: it is the old adjuster of the monkeys. Spirou and Fantasio decide to return the animals to this man.
N.B.: Gaston Lagaffe appears in this history.

Panade with Champignac

Co-autor (S) : Participation of Peyo and Gos in the scenario, decorations of Jidéhem
Prépublication: No 1539 (12.10.67) to 1556 (08.02.68); 37 boards
Album: No 19, Panade in Champignac , 1969
Résumé: Fantasio must take holidays because its work with the Journal of Spirou - and especially the presence of Gaston Lagaffe - the exténue. Spirou and suit him to Champignac. Arrived, they learn that the count de Champignac is devoted to the cure of Zorglub after the shock which it underwent under the blow of one of his weapons: it fell down in childhood and has 8 months mentally. Spirou and Fantasio decide to help their old friend. The incidents will follow one another, in particular because of the presence of old a zorglhomme which wants to deliver its former chief: removal, track races, Zorglonde which paralyzes everyone… Thanks to the count, any cost in the order.

Sources

various Articles of Mr. Archive in Spirou , editions Dupuis
Schtroumpf, Books of the cartoon , No 10,1972, and No 47/48, 1980, editions Glénat
memories of Spirou , Thierry Martens and Jean-Paul Tibéri, editions Dupuis, 1989

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