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{{about|the comic book and TV series|the mobster|Lucky Luciano}} |
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[[Image:Luckyluke.JPG|thumb|right|200px|''"Lucky Luke, quicker than his own shadow"'', the classical series back cover]] |
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[[Image:LuckyLuke2.png|thumb|200px|right|''Sous le Ciel de l'Ouest'' (1952), cover of an early softcovered issue.]] |
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'''''Lucky Luke''''' is a [[Franco-Belgian comics]] series created by Belgian |
'''''Lucky Luke''''' is a [[Franco-Belgian comics]] series created by Belgian [[cartoonist]], Maurice De Bevere better known as [[Morris (comics)|Morris]], the original artist, and saw its best period written by [[René Goscinny]]. Set in the [[American Old West]], it stars the [[titular character]], Lucky Luke, the [[cowboy]] known to ''shoot faster than his shadow''. |
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Along with ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]'' and ''[[Asterix]]'', ''Lucky Luke'' is one of the most popular and best-selling comic-book series in [[continental Europe]],<small><ref>{{cite web|last=Ratier|first=Gilles|url=http://www.acbd.fr/bilan/page/bilan-2006.html#5|title=ACBD bilan 2006:new Lucky Luke had an initial run of 650,000 copies..|publisher=ACBD.fr|accessdate=2007-02-08}}{{fr_icon}}</ref></small>. Popular in Canada, about half of the series' adventures have been translated into English. |
Along with ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]'' and ''[[Asterix]]'', ''Lucky Luke'' is one of the most popular and best-selling comic-book series in [[continental Europe]],<small><ref>{{cite web|last=Ratier|first=Gilles|url=http://www.acbd.fr/bilan/page/bilan-2006.html#5|title=ACBD bilan 2006:new Lucky Luke had an initial run of 650,000 copies..|publisher=ACBD.fr|accessdate=2007-02-08}}{{fr_icon}}</ref></small>. Popular in Canada, about half of the series' adventures have been translated into English. Lucky Luke comics have been translated into 23 languages, including many leading European languages, some African and Asian languages. |
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==Publication history== |
==Publication history== |
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==The stories== |
==The stories== |
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Luke, a wandering [[cowboy]] capable of drawing a gun faster than his shadow, fights crime and injustice, most often in the form of the bumbling [[The Daltons (Lucky Luke)|Dalton brothers]], Joe, William, Jack and Averell. |
Luke, a wandering [[cowboy]] capable of drawing a gun faster than his shadow, fights crime and injustice, most often in the form of the bumbling [[The Daltons (Lucky Luke)|Dalton brothers]], Joe, William, Jack and Averell. He rides [[Jolly Jumper]], "the smartest horse in the world" and is often accompanied by [[Rantanplan]], "the stupidest dog in the universe", a spoof of [[Rin Tin Tin]], usually guarding the Dalton brothers at their jail yet never preventing them from escaping. He refuses to smell Dalton's cloths and act as a reverse indicator to Dalton's whereabouts |
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In the albums, Luke meets many factual Western figures like [[Calamity Jane]], [[Billy the Kid]], Judge [[Roy Bean]] and [[Jesse James (outlaw)|Jesse James]]'s gang, and takes part in historical endeavors such as guarding of [[Wells Fargo]] stagecoaches, the [[Pony Express]], the building of the first transcontinental [[telegraph]], the Rush into the [[Unassigned Lands]] of [[Oklahoma]], and a tour by French actress [[Sarah Bernhardt]]. Some of the books feature a one-page article offering a historical perspective on the events featured. |
In the albums, Luke meets many factual Western figures like [[Calamity Jane]], [[Billy the Kid]], Judge [[Roy Bean]] and [[Jesse James (outlaw)|Jesse James]]'s gang, and takes part in historical endeavors such as guarding of [[Wells Fargo]] stagecoaches, the [[Pony Express]], the building of the first transcontinental [[telegraph]], the Rush into the [[Unassigned Lands]] of [[Oklahoma]], and a tour by French actress [[Sarah Bernhardt]]. Some of the books feature a one-page article offering a historical perspective on the events featured. |
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"Except for the first album, Lucky Luke has never killed any opponent but still, he seemed to carry along a heavy burden, never committing to anything or anybody, and always riding off into the sunset." <ref>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/from-our-continental-correspondent-lucky-luke-is-alive/</ref> |
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At the end of each story, except the earliest, Lucky Luke rides off alone into the sunset, singing (in English) "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, and a long way from home...". |
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At the end of each story, except the earliest, Lucky Luke rides off alone into the sunset on Jolly Jumper, singing (in English) "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, and a long way from home...". |
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== Bibliography == |
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=== By Morris === |
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[[Image:LuckyLuke2.png|thumb|209px|right|''Sous le Ciel de l'Ouest'' (1952), cover of an early softcovered issue.]] |
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*1. ''[[La Mine d'or de Dick Digger]]'', [[Dupuis]], 1949 (''Dick Digger's Gold Mine'') |
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*2. ''[[Rodéo (Lucky Luke)|Rodéo]]'', Dupuis, 1949 |
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*3. ''[[Arizona (Lucky Luke)| Arizona]]'', Dupuis, 1951 |
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*4. ''[[Sous le ciel de l'Ouest]]'', Dupuis, 1952 (''Under the Western Sky'') |
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*5. ''[[Lucky Luke contre Pat Poker]]'', Dupuis, 1953 (''Lucky Luke versus Pat Poker'') |
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*6. ''[[Hors-la-loi]]'', Dupuis, 1954 (''Outlaw'') |
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*7. ''[[L'Élixir du Dr Doxey]]'', Dupuis, 1955 (''Dr Doxey's Elixir'') |
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*8. ''[[Lucky Luke contre Phil Defer]]'', Dupuis, 1956 (''Lucky Luke versus Phil Defer'' - the name ''Phil Defer'' a French play on ''Fil de Fer'', ''Iron Wire'') |
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*10. ''[[Alerte aux Pieds Bleus]]'', Dupuis, 1958 (''Beware of the Bluefoots'') |
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*9. ''[[Des rails sur la Prairie]]'', Dupuis, 1957 (''Rails on the Prairie'') |
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*11. ''[[Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon]]'', Dupuis, 1958 (''Lucky Luke versus Joss Jamon'') |
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*12. ''[[Les Cousins Dalton]]'', Dupuis, 1958 (''The Dalton Cousins'') |
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*13. ''[[Le Juge]]'', Dupuis, 1959 (''The Judge'') |
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*14. ''[[Ruée sur l'Oklahoma]]'', Dupuis, 1960 (''The Oklahoma Run'') |
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*15. ''[[L'Évasion des Dalton]]'', Dupuis, 1960 (''The Daltons Escape'') |
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*16. ''[[En remontant le Mississippi]]'', Dupuis, 1961 (''Travelling Up The Mississippi'') |
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*17. ''[[Sur la piste des Dalton]]'', Dupuis, 1962 (''On the Daltons' Trail'') |
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*18. ''[[À l'ombre des derricks]]'', Dupuis, 1962 (''[[In the Shadow of the Derricks]]'') |
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*19. ''[[Les Rivaux de Painful Gulch]]'', Dupuis, 1962 (''[[The Rivals of Painful Gulch]]'') |
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*20. ''[[Billy the Kid (Lucky Luke)| Billy the Kid]]'', Dupuis, 1962 |
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*21. ''[[Les Collines noires]]'', Dupuis, 1963 (''The Black Hills'') |
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*22. ''[[Les Dalton dans le blizzard]]'', Dupuis, 1963 (''The Daltons in the Blizzard'') |
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*23. ''[[Les Dalton courent toujours]]'', Dupuis, 1964 (''The Daltons Always On The Run'') |
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*24. ''[[La Caravane]]'', Dupuis, 1964 (''[[The Wagon Train (Lucky Luke)|The Wagon Train]] '') |
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*25. ''[[La Ville fantôme]]'', Dupuis, 1965 (''[[Ghost Town (Lucky Luke)|Ghost Town]]'') |
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*26. ''[[Les Dalton se rachètent]]'', Dupuis, 1965 (''The Daltons Redeem Themselves'') |
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*27. ''[[Le Vingtième de cavalerie]]'', Dupuis, 1965 (''The 20th of the Cavalry'') |
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*28. ''[[L'Escorte]]'', Dupuis, 1966 (''The Escort'') |
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*29. ''[[Des barbelés sur la prairie]]'', Dupuis, 1967 (''[[Barbed Wire on the Prairie]]'') |
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*30. ''[[Calamity Jane (Lucky Luke)| Calamity Jane]]'', Dupuis, 1967 |
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*31. ''[[Tortillas pour les Dalton]]'', Dupuis, 1967 (''[[Tortillas for the Daltons]]'') |
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*32. ''[[La Diligence]]'', [[Dargaud]], 1968 (''The Stagecoach'') |
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*33. ''[[Le Pied-tendre]]'', Dargaud, 1968 (''[[The Tenderfoot]]'') |
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*34. ''[[Dalton City (Lucky Luke)|Dalton City]]'', Dargaud, 1969] |
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*35. ''[[Jesse James (Lucky Luke)|Jesse James]]'', Dargaud, 1969 |
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*36. ''[[Western Circus]]'', Dargaud, 1970 |
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*37. ''[[Canyon Apache]]'', Dargaud, 1971 (''[[Apache Canyon]]'') |
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*38. ''[[Ma Dalton]]'', Dargaud, 1971 |
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*39. ''[[Chasseur de primes]]'', Dargaud, 1972 (''The Bounty Hunter'') |
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*40. ''[[Le Grand Duc]]'', Dargaud, 1973 (''The Grand Duke'') |
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*41. ''[[L'Héritage de Rantanplan]]'', Dargaud, 1973 (''Rantanplan's Inheritance'') |
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*42. ''[[7 histoires complètes - série 1]]'', Dargaud, 1974 (7 Full Stories - Series 1) |
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*43. ''[[Le Cavalier blanc]]'', Dargaud, 1975 (''[[The Dashing White Cowboy]]'') |
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*44. ''[[La Guérison des Dalton]]'', Dargaud, 1975 (''The Daltons' Cure'') |
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*45. ''[[L'Empereur Smith]]'', Dargaud, 1976 (''Emperor Smith'') |
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*46. ''[[Le Fil qui chante]]'', Dargaud, 1977 (''The Singing Wire'') |
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*HS. ''[[La Ballade des Dalton]]'', Dargaud, 1978 (''The Daltons' Ballad'') |
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*50. ''[[La Corde du pendu]]'', Dargaud, 1981 (''The Rope of the Hanged'') |
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*51. ''[[Daisy Town]]'', Dargaud, 1983 |
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*55. ''[[La Ballade des Dalton et autres histoires]]'', Dargaud, 1986 (''The Dalton's Ballad and Other Stories'') |
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In 1969, Morris and writer [[René Goscinny]] (co-creator of ''[[Asterix]]'') had Lucky Luke confronting [[Jesse James]], his brother [[Frank James]] and [[Cole Younger]]. The adventure poked fun at the image of Jesse as a new [[Robin Hood]]. Although he passes himself off as such and does indeed steal from the rich (who are, logically, the only ones worth stealing from), he and his gang take turns being "poor," thus keeping the [[loot]] for themselves. Frank quotes from [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], and Younger is portrayed as a fun-loving joker, full of good humor. One critic has likened this version of the James brothers as "intellectuals bandits, who won't stop theorising their outlaw activities and hear themselves talk."<ref>[http://www.fandeluckyluke.com/albums/dar-04-jesse.htm ''Fans de Lucky Luke'' website."] fandeluckyluke.com. (in French)</ref> In the end, the at-first-cowed people of a town fight back against the James gang and send them packing in [[Tarring and feathering|tar and feathers]]. |
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=== By Morris and various writers === |
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*47. ''Le Magot des Dalton'', Dargaud, 1980, by Vicq (''The Daltons' Loot'') |
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*48. ''Le Bandit manchot'', Dargaud, 1981, by [[Bob de Groot]] (''The One-Armed Bandit'') |
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*49. ''Sarah Bernhardt'', Dargaud, 1982, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche |
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*52. ''Fingers'', Dargaud, 1983, by Lo Hartog Van Banda |
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*53. ''Le Daily Star'', Dargaud, 1983, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (''The Daily Star'') |
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*54. ''La Fiancée de Lucky Luke'', Dargaud, 1985, by Guy Vidal (''Lucky Luke's Fiancee'') |
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*56. ''Le Ranch maudit'', Dargaud, 1986, by Jean Léturgie, Xavier Fauche and Claude Guylouis (''The Cursed Ranch'') |
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*57. ''Nitroglycérine'', Dargaud, 1987, by Lo Hartog Van Banda |
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*58. ''L'Alibi'', Dargaud, 1987, by Claude Guylouis (''The Alibi'') |
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*59. ''Le Pony Express'', Dargaud, 1988], by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (''The Pony Express'') |
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*60. ''L'Amnésie des Dalton'', [[Lucky Productions]], 1991, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (''The Daltons' Amnesia'') |
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*61. ''Chasse aux fantômes'', Lucky Productions, 1992, by Lo Hartog Van Banda (''Ghosthunt'') |
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*62. ''Les Dalton à la noce'', Lucky Productions, 1993, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (''The Daltons at a Wedding'') |
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*63. ''Le Pont sur le Mississippi'', Lucky Productions, 1994, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (''Bridge Over The Mississippi'') |
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*64. ''Belle Star'', Lucky Productions, 1995, by Xavier Fauche |
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*65. ''Le Klondike'', Lucky Productions, 1996, by Yann and Jean Léturgie (''The Klondike'') |
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*66. ''O.K. Corral'', Lucky Productions, 1997, by Eric Adam and Xavier Fauche |
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*67. ''Marcel Dalton'', Lucky Productions, 1998, by Bob de Groot |
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*68. ''Le Prophète'', Lucky Comics, 2000, by Patrick Nordmann (''The Prophet'') |
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*69. ''L'Artiste peintre'', Lucky Comics, 2001, by Bob de Groot (''The Painter'') |
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*70. ''La Légende de l'Ouest'', Lucky Comics, 2002, by Patrick Nordmann (''The Legend Of The West'') |
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*71. ''La Belle Province'', Lucky Comics, 2004 (''The Beautiful Country'') |
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*72. ''La Corde au cou'', Lucky Comics, 2006 (''The Noose'') |
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*73. ''L'Homme de Washington'', Lucky Comics, 2008 (''The man from Washington'') |
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[[Reuters]] claimed Maurice was forced to remove cigarettes Luke Luke smokes from his strip.<!-- The review was not the first time a famous cartoon character was forced to give up smoking. Belgian cartoonist Maurice de Bevere replaced his most popular creation Lucky Luke's ubiquitous cigarette with a blade of grass, winning him an award from the World Health Organization in 1988. --><ref>http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200608/23/eng20060823_295966.html</ref> Lucky Luke "used to be a heavy [[smoker]], but he had to give up ... for commercial reasons".<ref name=smoking>http://www.thelooniverse.com/strips/luckyluke/luckyluke.html</ref> Belgian cartoonist won an award from the [[World Health Organization]] in 1988 when he replaced Luke's omnipresent cigarette with a plant. <ref>http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2006/08/looney_tunes.html</ref><ref>http://www.tv.com/story/5948.html</ref> |
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=== English translations === |
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Apart from the collections mentioned below, Lucky Luke comics were published in British comic book magazines such as ''Film Fun Comic'' or ''[[Giggle]]'' (in 1967). The ''[[Giggle]]'' version had Luke's name changed to "Buck Bingo"<ref>[http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=8336 Lucky Luke as "Buck Bingo" on the Forbidden Planet International Blog Log]</ref>. |
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'''Brockhampton, Dargaud, Fantasy Flight, Glo'worm, Knight Books & Ravette Books''' |
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*''[[Jesse James (Lucky Luke)| Jesse James]]'', Brockhampton Press (UK), 1972 |
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*''The Stagecoach'', Brockhampton Press (UK), 1972 |
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*''The Stagecoach'', Knight Books (UK), 1976 |
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*''[[Apache Canyon]]'', Knight Books (UK), 1977 |
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*''The Stage Coach'', Dargaud USA, 1980s; [[Fantasy Flight Games|Fantasy Flight]] (US) 1990s |
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*''The Greenhorn'', Dargaud USA, 1980s |
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*''[[Dalton City (Lucky Luke)| Dalton City]]'', Dargaud USA, 1980s |
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*''[[Jesse James (Lucky Luke)| Jesse James]]'', Dargaud USA, 1980s; Fantasy Flight (US) 1990s |
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*''[[Western Circus (Lucky Luke)| Western Circus]]'', Dargaud USA, 1980s |
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*''[[Ma Dalton (Lucky Luke)| Ma Dalton]], Dargaud USA, 1980s |
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*''The Dalton Brothers' Analyst'', also ''Curing the Daltons'', Dargaud Canada, 1982 |
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*''The Dalton Brothers Memory Game'', Ravette books (UK), 1991 |
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*''[[Calamity Jane (Lucky Luke)| Calamity Jane]]'', Glo'worm (UK), 1998 |
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*''[[Dalton City (Lucky Luke)| Dalton City]]'', Glo'worm (UK), 1998 |
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*''[[Ma Dalton (Lucky Luke)| Ma Dalton]]'', Glo'worm (UK), 1999 |
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*''[[Jesse James (Lucky Luke)| Jesse James]]'', Glo'worm (UK), 1998 |
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*''[[The Tenderfoot (Lucky Luke)| The Tenderfoot]]'', Glo'worm (UK), 1999 |
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*''[[Western Circus (Lucky Luke)| Western Circus]]'', Glo'worm (UK), 2000 |
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*''[[The Dashing White Cowboy (Lucky Luke)| The Dashing White Cowboy]]'', Glo'worm (UK), 2000 |
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===Racial stereotypes=== |
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'''Cinebook''' |
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Lucky Luke episodes contains many [[ethnic stereotype]]s of "sneaky" [[Chinese people|Chinese]] or "lazy" [[Mexican]]s<ref name=forbiddenplanet/>,[[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]]s, [[Irish people|Irish]] and [[Italians|Italian]]s<ref name=smoking/>, while others claim non-whites are not more [[stereotype]]d than some European immigrants like Irish or Italian, and it is a lesser degree than another [[Franco-Belgian comic]] [[The Adventures of Tintin#Criticisms of the series|Tin Tin]]<!-- "There is much less racism here [in Lucky Luke] then in [[Tintin]]: Non-whites are not more stereotyped than Irishmen or Italians." Tintin has same stereotypes highly, that is why some images of the series are currently not published --><ref name=smoking/> According to the [[Forbidden Planet (bookstore)]] [[correspondent]]: "They played on the [[cliché]]s of the genre, with humour that nowadays probably would be considered quite racist (lazy Mexicans, sneaky Chinese), but also with a special sort of being [[satire]], mirroring contemporary social [[platitude]]s." <ref name=forbiddenplanet>http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/from-our-continental-correspondent-lucky-luke-is-alive/</ref> |
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*1. ''[[Billy the Kid (Lucky Luke)| Billy The Kid]]'', [[Cinebook Ltd]], 2006, <small>ISBN 1905460112</small> |
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*2. ''[[Ghost Town (Lucky Luke)| Ghost Town]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2006, <small>ISBN 1905460120</small> |
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*3. ''[[Dalton City (Lucky Luke)| Dalton City]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2006, <small>ISBN 1905460139</small> |
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*4. ''[[Jesse James (Lucky Luke)| Jesse James]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2006, <small>ISBN 1905460147</small> |
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*5. ''[[In the Shadow of the Derricks (Lucky Luke)| In the Shadow of the Derricks]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2007, <small>ISBN 1905460171</small> |
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*6. ''[[Ma Dalton (Lucky Luke)| Ma Dalton]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2007, <small>ISBN 9781905460182</small> |
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*7. ''[[Barbed Wire on the Prairie (Lucky Luke)| Barbed Wire on the Prairie]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2007, <small>ISBN 9781905460243</small> |
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*8. ''[[Calamity Jane (Lucky Luke)| Calamity Jane]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2007, <small>ISBN 9781905460250</small> |
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*9. ''[[The Wagon Train (Lucky Luke)| The Wagon Train]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460403</small> |
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*10. ''[[Tortillas for the Daltons]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460496</small> |
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*11. ''[[Western Circus (Lucky Luke)| Western Circus]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460557</small> |
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*12. ''[[The Rivals of Painful Gulch]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460601</small> |
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*13. ''[[The Tenderfoot (Lucky Luke)| The Tenderfoot]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460656</small> |
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*14. ''[[The Dashing White Cowboy (Lucky Luke)| The Dashing White Cowboy]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460663</small> |
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*15. ''[[The Daltons in the Blizzard (Lucky Luke)| The Daltons in the Blizzard]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2009, <small>ISBN 9781905460762</small> |
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*16. ''[[The Black Hills (Lucky Luke)| The Black Hills]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2009, <small>ISBN 9781905460830</small> |
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*17. ''[[Apache Canyon (Lucky Luke)| Apache Canyon]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2009, <small>ISBN 9781905460922</small> |
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*18. ''[[The Escort (Lucky Luke)| The Escort]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2009, <small>ISBN 9781905460984</small> |
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*19. ''[[On the Daltons' Trail(Lucky Luke)| On the Daltons' Trail]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2009, <small>tbc</small> |
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*20. ''[[The Oklahoma Land Rush (Lucky Luke)| The Oklahoma Land Rush]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2009, <small>tbc</small> |
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*20. ''[[The 20th Cavalry (Lucky Luke)| The 20th Cavalry]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2010, <small>tbc</small> |
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*20. ''[[Emperor Smith (Lucky Luke)| Emperor Smith]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2010, <small>tbc</small> |
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*20. ''[[A Cure for the Daltons (Lucky Luke)| A Cure for the Daltons]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2010, <small>tbc</small> |
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*20. ''[[The Judge (Lucky Luke)| The Judge]]'', Cinebook Ltd, 2010, <small>tbc</small> |
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In episode ''L'Héritage de Ran Tan Plan'' (''Ran Tan Plan's inheritance''), when the [[The Daltons (Lucky Luke)|Dalton brothers]] are hiding in the [[Chinatown]] of [[Virginia City]], one of them, in order to "blend with the crowd", starts uttering phrases like "[[ching-chong]]-chang-cheng". The leader of the [[Chinese community]] there tells him he wouldn't use such raw language even in reference to his [[archenemy|worst enemy]]. <!-- Read [[Ching chong]] --> |
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'''Eurokids''' |
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Though it should be noted, racial stereotypes does not necessarily equal to racism and racism perception of the world is much more different than it is in early 20th century. |
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*1. ''[[The Alibi(Lucky Luke) | The Alibi]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620331</small> |
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*2. ''[[Ghost Hunt(Lucky Luke) | Ghost Hunt]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620355</small> |
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*3. ''[[Kid Lucky(Lucky Luke) | Kid Lucky]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620379</small> |
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*4. ''[[Oklahoma Jim(Lucky Luke) | Oklahoma Jim]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620409</small> |
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*5. ''[[The Prophet(Lucky Luke) | The Prophet]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620416</small> |
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*6. ''[[Belle Star(Lucky Luke) | Belle Star]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620386</small> |
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*7. ''[[The Klondike(Lucky Luke) | The Klondike]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620393</small> |
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*8. ''[[The Pony Express(Lucky Luke) | The Pony Express]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620348</small> |
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*9. ''[[Sarah Bernardt(Lucky Luke) | Sarah Bernardt]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620423</small> |
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*10. ''[[The bridge on the Mississippi(Lucky Luke) | The bridge on the Mississippi]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620362</small> |
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*11. ''[[The Hanged Man’s Rope and other stories(Lucky Luke) | The Hanged Man’s Rope and other stories]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620430</small> |
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*12. ''[[The Ballad of the Daltons and other stories(Lucky Luke) | The Ballad of the Daltons and other stories]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620560</small> |
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*13. ''[[Daisy Town(Lucky Luke) | Daisy Town]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620447</small> |
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*14. ''[[Fingers(Lucky Luke) | Fingers]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620454</small> |
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*15. ''[[Marcel Dalton(Lucky Luke) | Marcel Dalton]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620461</small> |
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*16. ''[[The Artist(Lucky Luke) | The Artist]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620478</small> |
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*17. ''[[The legend of the west(Lucky Luke) | The legend of the west]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620485</small> |
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*18. ''[[The Daily Star(Lucky Luke) | The Daily Star]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620492</small> |
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*19. ''[[Lucky Luke’s fiancé(Lucky Luke) | Lucky Luke’s fiancé]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620508</small> |
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*20. ''[[Nitroglycerine(Lucky Luke) | Nitroglycerine]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620515</small> |
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*21. ''[[The Cursed Ranch(Lucky Luke) | The Cursed Ranch]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620522</small> |
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*22. ''[[The Beautiful Province(Lucky Luke) | The Beautiful Province]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620539</small> |
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*23. ''[[From the gallows to the altar(Lucky Luke) | From the gallows to the altar]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620546</small> |
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*24. ''[[The Dalton’s Loot(Lucky Luke) | The Dalton’s Loot]]'', Eurokids, 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620553</small> |
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==Lucky Luke in other media== |
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Initially the back cover was saying "quicker than his own shadow" ,with only one pistol and a cigarette in Lucky Luke's mouth. Later it was changed to "two times quicker than his own shadow", with two pistols and a weed in his mouth. <ref>http://www.sesseler.de/Comic/Lucky_Luke/luckyluke0.html</ref> |
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==''Lucky Luke'' characters of non-fiction origin== |
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===By Morris (1949-1958)=== |
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====[[Dupuis]]==== |
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*1. ''[[La Mine d'or de Dick Digger]]'', 1949 (''Dick Digger's Gold Mine'') |
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*2. ''[[Rodéo (Lucky Luke)|Rodéo]]'', 1949 |
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*3. ''[[Arizona (Lucky Luke)| Arizona]]'', 1951 |
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*4. ''[[Sous le ciel de l'Ouest]]'', 1952 (''Under the Western Sky'') |
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*5. ''[[Lucky Luke contre Pat Poker]]'', 1953 (''Lucky Luke versus Pat Poker'') |
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*6. ''[[Hors-la-loi]]'', 1954 (''Outlaw'') |
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*7. ''[[L'Élixir du Dr Doxey]]'', 1955 (''Dr Doxey's Elixir'') |
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*8. ''[[Lucky Luke contre Phil Defer]]'', 1956 (''Phil Defer'' a French play on ''Fil de Fer - Iron Wire'') |
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*10. ''[[Alerte aux Pieds Bleus]]'', 1958 (''Beware of the Bluefoots'') |
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===By Morris & Goscinny (1967-1986)=== |
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====Dupuis==== |
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*9. ''[[Des rails sur la Prairie]]'', 1957 (''Rails on the Prairie'') |
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*11. ''[[Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon]]'', 1958 (''Lucky Luke versus Joss Jamon'') |
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*12. ''[[Les Cousins Dalton]]'', 1958 (''The Dalton Cousins'') |
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*13. ''[[Le Juge]]'', 1959 (''The Judge'') |
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*14. ''[[Ruée sur l'Oklahoma]]'', 1960 (''The Oklahoma Run'') |
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*15. ''[[L'Évasion des Dalton]]'', 1960 (''The Daltons Escape'') |
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*16. ''[[En remontant le Mississippi]]'', 1961 (''Travelling Up The Mississippi'') |
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*17. ''[[Sur la piste des Dalton]]'', 1962 (''On the Daltons' Trail'') |
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*18. ''[[À l'ombre des derricks]]'', 1962 (''[[In the Shadow of the Derricks]]'') |
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*19. ''[[Les Rivaux de Painful Gulch]]'', 1962 (''[[The Rivals of Painful Gulch]]'') |
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*20. ''[[Billy the Kid (Lucky Luke)| Billy the Kid]]'', 1962 |
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*21. ''[[Les Collines noires]]'', 1963 (''The Black Hills'') |
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*22. ''[[Les Dalton dans le blizzard]]'', 1963 (''The Daltons in the Blizzard'') |
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*23. ''[[Les Dalton courent toujours]]'', 1964 (''The Daltons Always On The Run'') |
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*24. ''[[La Caravane]]'', 1964 (''[[The Wagon Train (Lucky Luke)|The Wagon Train]] '') |
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*25. ''[[La Ville fantôme]]'', 1965 (''[[Ghost Town (Lucky Luke)|Ghost Town]]'') |
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*26. ''[[Les Dalton se rachètent]]'', 1965 (''The Daltons Redeem Themselves'') |
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*27. ''[[Le Vingtième de cavalerie]]'', 1965 (''The 20th of the Cavalry'') |
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*28. ''[[L'Escorte]]'', 1966 (''The Escort'') |
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*29. ''[[Des barbelés sur la prairie]]'', 1967 (''[[Barbed Wire on the Prairie]]'') |
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*30. ''[[Calamity Jane (Lucky Luke)| Calamity Jane]]'', 1967 |
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*31. ''[[Tortillas pour les Dalton]]'', 1967 (''[[Tortillas for the Daltons]]'') |
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*32. ''[[La Diligence]]'', 1968 (''The Stagecoach'') |
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*33. ''[[Le Pied-tendre]]'', 1968 (''[[The Tenderfoot]]'') |
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*34. ''[[Dalton City (Lucky Luke)|Dalton City]]'', 1969] |
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*35. ''[[Jesse James (Lucky Luke)|Jesse James]]'', 1969 |
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*36. ''[[Western Circus]]'', 1970 |
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*37. ''[[Canyon Apache]]'', 1971 (''[[Apache Canyon]]'') |
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*38. ''[[Ma Dalton]]'', 1971 |
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*39. ''[[Chasseur de primes]]'', 1972 (''The Bounty Hunter'') |
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*40. ''[[Le Grand Duc]]'', 1973 (''The Grand Duke'') |
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*41. ''[[L'Héritage de Rantanplan]]'', 1973 (''Rantanplan's Inheritance'') |
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*42. ''[[7 histoires complètes - série 1]]'', 1974 (7 Full Stories - Series 1) |
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*43. ''[[Le Cavalier blanc]]'', 1975 (''[[The Dashing White Cowboy]]'') |
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*44. ''[[La Guérison des Dalton]]'', 1975 (''The Daltons' Cure'') |
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*45. ''[[L'Empereur Smith]]'', 1976 (''Emperor Smith'') |
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*46. ''[[Le Fil qui chante]]'', 1977 (''The Singing Wire'') |
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*HS. ''[[La Ballade des Dalton]]'', 1978 (''The Daltons' Ballad'') |
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*50. ''[[La Corde du pendu]]'', 1981 (''The Rope of the Hanged'') |
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*51. ''[[Daisy Town]]'', 1983 |
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*55. ''[[La Ballade des Dalton et autres histoires]]'', 1986 (''The Dalton's Ballad and Other Stories'') |
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===By Morris and various writers (1980-2002)=== |
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*47. ''Le Magot des Dalton'', 1980, by Vicq (''The Daltons' Loot'') |
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*48. ''Le Bandit manchot'', 1981, by [[Bob de Groot]] (''The One-Armed Bandit'') |
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*49. ''Sarah Bernhardt'', 1982, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche |
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*52. ''Fingers'', 1983, by Lo Hartog Van Banda |
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*53. ''Le Daily Star'', 1983, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (''The Daily Star'') |
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*54. ''La Fiancée de Lucky Luke'', 1985, by Guy Vidal (''Lucky Luke's Fiancee'') |
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*56. ''Le Ranch maudit'', 1986, by Jean Léturgie, Xavier Fauche and Claude Guylouis (''The Cursed Ranch'') |
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*57. ''Nitroglycérine'', 1987, by Lo Hartog Van Banda |
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*58. ''L'Alibi'', 1987, by Claude Guylouis (''The Alibi'') |
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*59. ''Le Pony Express'', 1988], by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (''The Pony Express'') |
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*60. ''L'Amnésie des Dalton'', 1991, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (''The Daltons' Amnesia'') |
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*61. ''Chasse aux fantômes'', 1992, by Lo Hartog Van Banda (''Ghosthunt'') |
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*62. ''Les Dalton à la noce'', 1993, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (''The Daltons at a Wedding'') |
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*63. ''Le Pont sur le Mississippi'', 1994, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (''Bridge Over The Mississippi'') |
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*64. ''Belle Star'', 1995, by Xavier Fauche |
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*65. ''Le Klondike'', 1996, by Yann and Jean Léturgie (''The Klondike'') |
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*66. ''O.K. Corral'', 1997, by Eric Adam and Xavier Fauche |
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*67. ''Marcel Dalton'', 1998, by Bob de Groot |
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*68. ''Le Prophète'', 2000, by Patrick Nordmann (''The Prophet'') |
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*69. ''L'Artiste peintre'', 2001, by Bob de Groot (''The Painter'') |
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*70. ''La Légende de l'Ouest'', 2002, by Patrick Nordmann (''The Legend Of The West'') |
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===By Achdé & Gerra (2004-2008)=== |
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*71. ''La Belle Province'', 2004 (''The Beautiful Country'') |
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*72. ''La Corde au cou'', 2006 (''The Noose'') |
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*73. ''L'Homme de Washington'', 2008 (''The man from Washington'') |
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Apart from the collections mentioned below, Lucky Luke comics were published in British comic book magazines such as ''Film Fun Comic'' or ''[[Giggle]]'' (in 1967). The ''[[Giggle]]'' version had Luke's name changed to "Buck Bingo"<ref>[http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=8336 Lucky Luke as "Buck Bingo" on the Forbidden Planet International Blog Log]</ref>. |
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'''[[Brockhampton Press]] (UK)''' |
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*''[[Jesse James (Lucky Luke)| Jesse James]]'', 1972 |
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*''The Stagecoach'', 1972 |
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'''[[Knight Books]] (UK)''' |
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*''The Stagecoach'', 1976 |
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*''[[Apache Canyon]]'', 1977 |
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'''[[Dargaud]] USA and Canada''' |
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*''The Stage Coach'', USA, 1980s |
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*''The Greenhorn'', USA, 1980s |
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*''[[Dalton City (Lucky Luke)| Dalton City]]'', USA, 1980s |
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*''[[Jesse James (Lucky Luke)| Jesse James]]'', USA, 1980s |
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*''[[Western Circus (Lucky Luke)| Western Circus]]'', USA, 1980s |
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*''[[Ma Dalton (Lucky Luke)| Ma Dalton]], USA, 1980s |
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*''The Dalton Brothers' Analyst'', Canada, 1982 |
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*''Curing the Daltons'', Canada, 1982 |
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'''[[Fantasy Flight Games|Fantasy Flight]] (US)''' |
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*''The Stage Coach'', 1990s |
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*''[[Jesse James (Lucky Luke)| Jesse James]]'', 1990s |
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'''[[Ravette Books]] (UK)''' |
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*''The Dalton Brothers Memory Game'', 1991 |
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'''[[Glo'worm]] (UK)''' |
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*''[[Calamity Jane (Lucky Luke)| Calamity Jane]]'', 1998 |
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*''[[Dalton City (Lucky Luke)| Dalton City]]'', 1998 |
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*''[[Ma Dalton (Lucky Luke)| Ma Dalton]]'', 1999 |
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*''[[Jesse James (Lucky Luke)| Jesse James]]'', 1998 |
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*''[[The Tenderfoot (Lucky Luke)| The Tenderfoot]]'', 1999 |
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*''[[Western Circus (Lucky Luke)| Western Circus]]'', 2000 |
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*''[[The Dashing White Cowboy (Lucky Luke)| The Dashing White Cowboy]]'', 2000 |
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'''[[Cinebook Ltd]]''' |
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*1. ''[[Billy the Kid (Lucky Luke)| Billy The Kid]]'', 2006, <small>ISBN 1905460112</small> |
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*2. ''[[Ghost Town (Lucky Luke)| Ghost Town]]'', 2006, <small>ISBN 1905460120</small> |
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*3. ''[[Dalton City (Lucky Luke)| Dalton City]]'', 2006, <small>ISBN 1905460139</small> |
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*4. ''[[Jesse James (Lucky Luke)| Jesse James]]'', 2006, <small>ISBN 1905460147</small> |
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*5. ''[[In the Shadow of the Derricks (Lucky Luke)| In the Shadow of the Derricks]]'', 2007, <small>ISBN 1905460171</small> |
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*6. ''[[Ma Dalton (Lucky Luke)| Ma Dalton]]'', 2007, <small>ISBN 9781905460182</small> |
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*7. ''[[Barbed Wire on the Prairie (Lucky Luke)| Barbed Wire on the Prairie]]'', 2007, <small>ISBN 9781905460243</small> |
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*8. ''[[Calamity Jane (Lucky Luke)| Calamity Jane]]'', 2007, <small>ISBN 9781905460250</small> |
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*9. ''[[The Wagon Train (Lucky Luke)| The Wagon Train]]'', 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460403</small> |
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*10. ''[[Tortillas for the Daltons]]'', 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460496</small> |
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*11. ''[[Western Circus (Lucky Luke)| Western Circus]]'', 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460557</small> |
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*12. ''[[The Rivals of Painful Gulch]]'', 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460601</small> |
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*13. ''[[The Tenderfoot (Lucky Luke)| The Tenderfoot]]'', 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460656</small> |
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*14. ''[[The Dashing White Cowboy (Lucky Luke)| The Dashing White Cowboy]]'', 2008, <small>ISBN 9781905460663</small> |
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*15. ''[[The Daltons in the Blizzard (Lucky Luke)| The Daltons in the Blizzard]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9781905460762</small> |
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*16. ''[[The Black Hills (Lucky Luke)| The Black Hills]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9781905460830</small> |
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*17. ''[[Apache Canyon (Lucky Luke)| Apache Canyon]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9781905460922</small> |
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*18. ''[[The Escort (Lucky Luke)| The Escort]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9781905460984</small> |
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*19. ''[[On the Daltons' Trail(Lucky Luke)| On the Daltons' Trail]]'', 2009, <small>tbc</small> |
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*20. ''[[The Oklahoma Land Rush (Lucky Luke)| The Oklahoma Land Rush]]'', 2009, <small>tbc</small> |
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*20. ''[[The 20th Cavalry (Lucky Luke)| The 20th Cavalry]]'', 2010, <small>tbc</small> |
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*20. ''[[Emperor Smith (Lucky Luke)| Emperor Smith]]'', 2010, <small>tbc</small> |
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*20. ''[[A Cure for the Daltons (Lucky Luke)| A Cure for the Daltons]]'', 2010, <small>tbc</small> |
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*20. ''[[The Judge (Lucky Luke)| The Judge]]'', 2010, <small>tbc</small> |
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'''[[Eurokids]]''' |
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*1. ''[[The Alibi(Lucky Luke) | The Alibi]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620331</small> |
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*2. ''[[Ghost Hunt(Lucky Luke) | Ghost Hunt]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620355</small> |
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*3. ''[[Kid Lucky(Lucky Luke) | Kid Lucky]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620379</small> |
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*4. ''[[Oklahoma Jim(Lucky Luke) | Oklahoma Jim]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620409</small> |
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*5. ''[[The Prophet(Lucky Luke) | The Prophet]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620416</small> |
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*6. ''[[Belle Star(Lucky Luke) | Belle Star]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620386</small> |
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*7. ''[[The Klondike(Lucky Luke) | The Klondike]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620393</small> |
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*8. ''[[The Pony Express(Lucky Luke) | The Pony Express]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620348</small> |
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*9. ''[[Sarah Bernardt(Lucky Luke) | Sarah Bernardt]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620423</small> |
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*10. ''[[The bridge on the Mississippi(Lucky Luke) | The bridge on the Mississippi]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620362</small> |
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*11. ''[[The Hanged Man’s Rope and other stories(Lucky Luke) | The Hanged Man’s Rope and other stories]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620430</small> |
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*12. ''[[The Ballad of the Daltons and other stories(Lucky Luke) | The Ballad of the Daltons and other stories]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620560</small> |
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*13. ''[[Daisy Town(Lucky Luke) | Daisy Town]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620447</small> |
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*14. ''[[Fingers(Lucky Luke) | Fingers]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620454</small> |
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*15. ''[[Marcel Dalton(Lucky Luke) | Marcel Dalton]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620461</small> |
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*16. ''[[The Artist(Lucky Luke) | The Artist]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620478</small> |
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*17. ''[[The legend of the west(Lucky Luke) | The legend of the west]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620485</small> |
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*18. ''[[The Daily Star(Lucky Luke) | The Daily Star]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620492</small> |
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*19. ''[[Lucky Luke’s fiancé(Lucky Luke) | Lucky Luke’s fiancé]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620508</small> |
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*20. ''[[Nitroglycerine(Lucky Luke) | Nitroglycerine]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620515</small> |
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*21. ''[[The Cursed Ranch(Lucky Luke) | The Cursed Ranch]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620522</small> |
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*22. ''[[The Beautiful Province(Lucky Luke) | The Beautiful Province]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620539</small> |
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*23. ''[[From the gallows to the altar(Lucky Luke) | From the gallows to the altar]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620546</small> |
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*24. ''[[The Dalton’s Loot(Lucky Luke) | The Dalton’s Loot]]'', 2009, <small>ISBN 9788128620553</small> |
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==See also== |
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*[[Ching chong]] |
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*[[Tobacco advertising]] |
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*[[Virgil Earp|Virgil]], [[Morgan Earp|Morgan]] and [[Wyatt Earp]] |
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*[[Horace Greeley]] |
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==References== |
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* [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/series3/luke.htm ''Lucky Luke'' publications in ''Spirou''] and [http://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/series3/luckyluke.htm ''Pilote''] BDoubliées {{fr_icon}} |
* [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/series3/luke.htm ''Lucky Luke'' publications in ''Spirou''] and [http://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/series3/luckyluke.htm ''Pilote''] BDoubliées {{fr_icon}} |
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==Further Reading== |
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* Lefevre, Pascal. 1998. Lucky Luke, a 'lonesome cowboy' for more than half a century. In The Low Countries, 1998-1999. Rekkem: Stichting Ons Erfdeel. |
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Lucky Luke is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Belgian cartoonist, Maurice De Bevere better known as Morris, the original artist, and saw its best period written by René Goscinny. Set in the American Old West, it stars the titular character, Lucky Luke, the cowboy known to shoot faster than his shadow.
Along with The Adventures of Tintin and Asterix, Lucky Luke is one of the most popular and best-selling comic-book series in continental Europe,[1]. Popular in Canada, about half of the series' adventures have been translated into English. Lucky Luke comics have been translated into 23 languages, including many leading European languages, some African and Asian languages.
Publication history
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Both a tribute to the mythic Old West and an affectionate parody, the comics were created by the Belgian artist Morris who drew Lucky Luke from 1946 until his death in 2001. The first Lucky Luke adventure named Arizona 1880 appeared in the Almanach issue of the comics magazine Le Journal de Spirou on December 7, 1946.[2] After several years of solitary work on the strip, Morris began a collaboration with René Goscinny who became the series' writer for a period that is considered the golden age of the series. This started with the story Des rails sur la Prairie published on August 25, 1955 in Spirou.[3] Ending a long run of serial publications in Spirou, the series shifted to Goscinny's magazine Pilote in 1967 with the story La Diligence, subsequently leaving publisher Dupuis for Dargaud.
After the death of Goscinny in 1977, several writers have tried to fill the role of storyteller, including Vicq, Bob de Groot, Jean Léturgie and Lo Hartog Van Banda. In addition to continuing the series, Morris started the related spin-off series Rantanplan in 1987. At the 1993 Angoulême International Comics Festival, Lucky Luke was given an honorary exhibition.[4]
After Morris' death in 2001, French artist Achdé continued drawing new Lucky Luke stories in collaboration with writer Laurent Gerra.
Lucky Luke comics have been translated into Italian, English, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese (both in the Brazilian and Portuguese forms), German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Turkish, Polish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Finnish, Czech, Tamil, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic and Vietnamese.
In India, Euro Books a division of Euro Kids International Ltd. published English versions of 24 Lucky Luke titles in 2009.
The stories
Luke, a wandering cowboy capable of drawing a gun faster than his shadow, fights crime and injustice, most often in the form of the bumbling Dalton brothers, Joe, William, Jack and Averell. He rides Jolly Jumper, "the smartest horse in the world" and is often accompanied by Rantanplan, "the stupidest dog in the universe", a spoof of Rin Tin Tin, usually guarding the Dalton brothers at their jail yet never preventing them from escaping. He refuses to smell Dalton's cloths and act as a reverse indicator to Dalton's whereabouts
In the albums, Luke meets many factual Western figures like Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid, Judge Roy Bean and Jesse James's gang, and takes part in historical endeavors such as guarding of Wells Fargo stagecoaches, the Pony Express, the building of the first transcontinental telegraph, the Rush into the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma, and a tour by French actress Sarah Bernhardt. Some of the books feature a one-page article offering a historical perspective on the events featured.
"Except for the first album, Lucky Luke has never killed any opponent but still, he seemed to carry along a heavy burden, never committing to anything or anybody, and always riding off into the sunset." [5]
At the end of each story, except the earliest, Lucky Luke rides off alone into the sunset on Jolly Jumper, singing (in English) "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, and a long way from home...".
Jesse James
In 1969, Morris and writer René Goscinny (co-creator of Asterix) had Lucky Luke confronting Jesse James, his brother Frank James and Cole Younger. The adventure poked fun at the image of Jesse as a new Robin Hood. Although he passes himself off as such and does indeed steal from the rich (who are, logically, the only ones worth stealing from), he and his gang take turns being "poor," thus keeping the loot for themselves. Frank quotes from Shakespeare, and Younger is portrayed as a fun-loving joker, full of good humor. One critic has likened this version of the James brothers as "intellectuals bandits, who won't stop theorising their outlaw activities and hear themselves talk."[6] In the end, the at-first-cowed people of a town fight back against the James gang and send them packing in tar and feathers.
Smoking
Reuters claimed Maurice was forced to remove cigarettes Luke Luke smokes from his strip.[7] Lucky Luke "used to be a heavy smoker, but he had to give up ... for commercial reasons".[8] Belgian cartoonist won an award from the World Health Organization in 1988 when he replaced Luke's omnipresent cigarette with a plant. [9][10]
Racial stereotypes
Lucky Luke episodes contains many ethnic stereotypes of "sneaky" Chinese or "lazy" Mexicans[11],Native Americans, Irish and Italians[8], while others claim non-whites are not more stereotyped than some European immigrants like Irish or Italian, and it is a lesser degree than another Franco-Belgian comic Tin Tin[8] According to the Forbidden Planet (bookstore) correspondent: "They played on the clichés of the genre, with humour that nowadays probably would be considered quite racist (lazy Mexicans, sneaky Chinese), but also with a special sort of being satire, mirroring contemporary social platitudes." [11]
In episode L'Héritage de Ran Tan Plan (Ran Tan Plan's inheritance), when the Dalton brothers are hiding in the Chinatown of Virginia City, one of them, in order to "blend with the crowd", starts uttering phrases like "ching-chong-chang-cheng". The leader of the Chinese community there tells him he wouldn't use such raw language even in reference to his worst enemy.
Though it should be noted, racial stereotypes does not necessarily equal to racism and racism perception of the world is much more different than it is in early 20th century.
Lucky Luke in other media
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Animation
Four theatrical animated films were created. In 1990, Disney released one of them, The Ballad of the Daltons, on VHS. Three of the movies were part of a trilogy. The first of the films was titled Daisy Town (1971), followed by La Ballade des Dalton (1978) and finished by Les Dalton en cavale (1983), meaning The Daltons on the Loose in English. In addition to the theatrical animated movies, there was also an animated Lucky Luke television series: In 1983, Hanna-Barbera studios and Morris released 26 episodes, and in 1991, 26 more episodes were released. In 2001, Xilam produced a new series of 52 episodes known as Les Nouvelles aventures de Lucky Luke (Lucky Luke's new adventures). It is now available on 8 DVDs with French and English audio tracks. This series also featured colonel Custer, in this incarnation an Indian-hater and a dwarf. Xilam recently produced a theatrical animated film (the fourth film), Tous à l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke (Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure), which was released in France on December 5, 2007. [12]
Live-action film and television
In 1991, two films (Lucky Luke and Lucky Luke 2) and in 1992 a television series (The Adventures of Lucky Luke) starring Terence Hill as Lucky Luke were produced, according to Morris, who helps the director in the making of.[citation needed]
In 2004 a film titled Les Dalton featured Til Schweiger as Lucky Luke.
Yves Marmion and UGC, the producers of Les Dalton, are currently developing a €20 million stand-alone Lucky Luke feature, starring Jean Dujardin as the gunslinger, according to FilmDeCulte.com.[13]
Video games
Over the years, several Lucky Luke video games were released for many platforms, most of them by Infogrames, and only released in Europe (the only ones released for the North American were the Game Boy Color and PlayStation versions). A Lucky Luke game was also developed for mobile phones by The Mighty Troglodytes.[citation needed] Lucky Luke: Go West was released in Europe for the PC, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS in the end of 2007.
Bibliography
By Morris (1949-1958)
By Morris & Goscinny (1967-1986)Dupuis
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By Morris and various writers (1980-2002)Dargaud
Lucky Productions
Lucky Comics
By Achdé & Gerra (2004-2008)Lucky Comics
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English translations
Apart from the collections mentioned below, Lucky Luke comics were published in British comic book magazines such as Film Fun Comic or Giggle (in 1967). The Giggle version had Luke's name changed to "Buck Bingo"[14].
Brockhampton Press (UK)
Knight Books (UK)
Dargaud USA and Canada
Fantasy Flight (US)
Ravette Books (UK)
Glo'worm (UK)
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See also
Lucky Luke characters of non-fiction origin
References
- Lucky Luke publications in Spirou and Pilote BDoubliées Template:Fr icon
- Footnotes
- ^ Ratier, Gilles. "ACBD bilan 2006:new Lucky Luke had an initial run of 650,000 copies." ACBD.fr. Retrieved 2007-02-08.Template:Fr icon
- ^ BDoubliées. "Spirou année 1946" (in French).
- ^ BDoubliées. "Spirou année 1955" (in French).
- ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. "Morris".
- ^ http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/from-our-continental-correspondent-lucky-luke-is-alive/
- ^ Fans de Lucky Luke website." fandeluckyluke.com. (in French)
- ^ http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200608/23/eng20060823_295966.html
- ^ a b c http://www.thelooniverse.com/strips/luckyluke/luckyluke.html
- ^ http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2006/08/looney_tunes.html
- ^ http://www.tv.com/story/5948.html
- ^ a b http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/from-our-continental-correspondent-lucky-luke-is-alive/
- ^ "Tous a l'ouest". Xilam Films. October 22, 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-22.
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(help) - ^ Lucky Luke as "Buck Bingo" on the Forbidden Planet International Blog Log
Further Reading
- Lefevre, Pascal. 1998. Lucky Luke, a 'lonesome cowboy' for more than half a century. In The Low Countries, 1998-1999. Rekkem: Stichting Ons Erfdeel.
External links
- Lucky Luke official site Template:Fr icon
- Editorial on Lucky Luke
- Lucky Luke English publications
- List of Lucky Luke games at MobyGames
- In Brussels, a wall is dedicated to Lucky Luke.
- German editions of Lucky Luke
- Goscinny website on Lucky LukeTemplate:Fr icon