Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio

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Spirou et Fantasio #1 Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio
Cover of the Belgian edition
Date	1950
Series	Spirou et Fantasio
Publisher	Dupuis
Creative team
Writers	Franquin
Artists	Franquin
Original publication
Published in	Le Journal de Spirou
Issues	522 - #540 #541 - #566 #567 - #574 #589 - #616
Date of publication	1948 - 1950
Language	French
ISBN	2-8001-0003-6
Chronology
Preceded by	Spirou et Fantasio, 1948
Followed by	Il y a un sorcier à Champignac, 1951

Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio, written and drawn by Franquin, is a collection of four stories from serial publication between 1948 and 1950 in Spirou magazine, namely Spirou et les plans du robot, Spirou sur le ring, Spirou fait du cheval, and Spirou chez les Pygmées. Together they were released as the first official series Spirou et Fantasio hardcover album in 1950.

Story

In The Robot Drawings, Spirou and Fantasio have a hunch they need to protect the world from criminals getting their hands on mad Professor Samovar's blueprints for a robot with doomsday potential. This is the sequel to Radar le robot from 1947.

In Spirou in the Ring, Poildur, a neighbour bully, challenges Spirou to a boxing match, who nobly accepts and asks Fantasio to coach him. An entire Brussels working class community turns out for the big event, and an epic boxing match of courage against cheating tactics is played out. On this occasion, Spirou's weight is revealed to be 40.8 kg.

In Spirou Rides a Horse, Fantasio attempts to mix it up with the upper class by playing the equestrian dandy gentleman, and Spirou reluctantly joins him to go horseback riding. Fantasio is given a very noble steed named Artaban, while Spirou's horse, Plumeau, is ridiculously unhorselike.

In Spirou meets the Pygmies, a leopard escaped from the zoo assaults Spirou and Spip during a forest picnic trip, but they manage to become friendly. Unable to adopt and keep it in the apartment, Spirou and Fantasio must take it home to an African island, leading to adventures with pygmy tribes and arms-dealing villains.

Background

Franquin's drawing style of this period, while it closely resembles the style of Jijé whose characters he had suddenly inherited, shows the first steps in developing his personal interpretation the characters and maturing storytelling skills, illustrated by comparing the very early first two stories with the two latter.

Another apparent influence is that of Franquin's boarding mate at the time, Morris whose Lucky Luke character Jolly Jumper's insane cousin appears to have a starring role as Plumeau in Spirou fait du cheval. The facial likeness of Morris is also lampooned in Spirou sur le ring as Spirou's little do-good friend called P'tit Maurice.

English translation

This book was translated to English in India by Egmont' subsidiary Euro Books in 2007, under the title "The Robot Blueprints and Four Other Stories".

References

Franquin publications in Spirou BDoubliées (in French)

External links

Spirou official site album index (in French)
Franquin site album index (in French)

v t e André Franquin
Series	Spirou et Fantasio Gaston Lagaffe Marsupilami Idées noires Le Petit Noël Modeste et Pompon Isabelle
Spirou et Fantasio characters	Fantasio Gaston Lagaffe Marsupilami Le Petit Noël Seccotine Spip Spirou Zantafio Zorglub
Spirou and Fantasio albums	Spirou et Fantasio Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio Il y a un sorcier à Champignac Les chapeaux noirs Spirou et les héritiers Les voleurs du Marsupilami La corne de rhinocéros Le dictateur et le champignon La mauvaise tête Le repaire de la murène Les pirates du silence Le gorille a bonne mine Le nid des Marsupilamis Le voyageur du Mésozoïque Le prisonnier du Bouddha Z comme Zorglub L'ombre du Z Spirou et les hommes-bulles QRN sur Bretzelburg Panade à Champignac Tembo Tabou
Gaston Lagaffe albums	Gaffes et gadgets Gala de gaffes à gogo Le bureau des gaffes en gros Gare aux gaffes du gars gonflé En direct de la gaffe Le lourd passé de Lagaffe Des gaffes et des dégâts Un gaffeur sachant gaffer Lagaffe nous gâte Le cas Lagaffe Le géant de la gaffe Gaffes, bévues et boulettes Le gang des gaffeurs Lagaffe mérite des baffes La saga des gaffes Gaffe à Lagaffe ! Gaston 19
Marsupilami albums	Capturez un Marsupilami La Queue du Marsupilami
Other albums	Idées noires
Collaborators	Delporte Jidéhem Greg Goscinny Roba
Publishing houses	Dupuis Marsu Productions
Magazines	Spirou Tintin
Other	Champignac

Spirou & Fantasio

Comic albums

Jijé (1948)	Spirou et l'aventure
André Franquin (1948-1968)	Spirou et Fantasio Quatre aventures de Spirou et Fantasio Il y a un sorcier à Champignac Les chapeaux noirs Spirou et les héritiers Les voleurs du Marsupilami La corne de rhinocéros Le dictateur et le champignon La mauvaise tête Le repaire de la murène Les pirates du silence Le gorille a bonne mine Le nid des Marsupilamis Le voyageur du Mésozoïque Le prisonnier du Bouddha Z comme Zorglub L'ombre du Z Spirou et les hommes-bulles QRN sur Bretzelburg Panade à Champignac Tembo Tabou
Jean-Claude Fournier (1970-1980)	Le faiseur d'or Du glucose pour Noémie L'abbaye truquée Tora Torapa Le gri-gri du Niokolo-Koba Du cidre pour les étoiles L'Ankou Kodo le tyran Des haricots partout
Nic & Cauvin (1983-1984)	La ceinture du grand froid La boîte noire Les faiseurs de silence
Tome & Janry (1984-1998)	Virus Aventure en Australie Qui arrêtera Cyanure? L'horloger de la comète Le réveil du Z La jeunesse de Spirou Spirou à New York La frousse aux trousses La vallée des bannis Spirou à Moscou Vito la Déveine

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