Tora Torapa

Tora Torapa is an album of Cartoon, the twenty third of the series the adventures of Spirou and Fantasio.

Synopsis

In Champignac, Spirou, Fantasio, the Count, Zorglub and Itoh Kata is testing a ball-transmitter with a rifle, when Zorglub is removed. Spirou draws to him above in order to follow its way. They discover thus that its kidnappers take it along to Polynesia. They there go and learn that it is held in Tora Torapa, an island considered cursed.

On the spot, Spirou and its companions just like discover that the island is at the thank you of the Triangle, Zorglub. They are joined by a native, Ororéa, which guides them until an old base of Zorglub where the Triangle is cut off. During this time, Zorglub, believer whom the Triangle wants to repurchase, built for their Pop Papa chief a transmitter attract-mosquitos having a range of 10.000 kilometers.

Spirou and its team are captured by Pop Papa who reveals his true identity: Zantafio in person! Zorglub, seeing it, includes/understands that it was made berner and sabotages the transmitter, while sticking some one in operating condition under the plane of the gangster, also sabotaged. Zorglub then leaves to release his/her friends, little time before Zantafio does not release its mosquitos gavés with curare. Trying to flee aboard plane, Zantafio is crushed at sea. The mosquitos follow the plane and drown, while Zantafio flees on board a raft. Ororéa sets out again finally in Europe with his/her companions because it proves to be a journalist.

Characters

Spirou
Fantasio
Spip
the Count de Champignac
Zorglub
Itoh Kata
Ororéa (first appearance)
Zantafio
Mac Ravash (first appearance)
the police chief (first appearance)

Anecdotes

Mac Ravash, one of the henchmen of Zantafio, is a caricature of Yvan Delporte.

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