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Lucky Luke is a Belgian comics

Belgian comics

Belgian comics are a distinct subgroup in the comics history, and played a major role in the development of European comics, alongside France with whom they share a long common history...

series created by Belgian cartoonist

Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

, Maurice De Bevere better known as Morris

Morris (comics)

Maurice De Bevere , better known as Morris, was a Belgian cartoonist and the creator of Lucky Luke. His pen name is an alternate spelling of his first name.-Biography:...

, the original artist, and was for one period written by René Goscinny

René Goscinny

René Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.-Early life:Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family...

. Set in the American Old West

American Old West

The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...

, it stars the titular character, Lucky Luke, the cowboy

Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. The historic American cowboy of the late 19th century arose from the vaquero traditions of northern Mexico and became a figure of...

known to shoot faster than his shadow.

Along with The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...

and Asterix

Asterix

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo . The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on October 29, 1959...

, Lucky Luke is one of the most popular and best-selling comic-book series in continental Europe

Continental Europe

Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent, is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands....

. 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 European languages, some African and Asian languages.

Publication history

Both a tribute to the mythic Old West and an affectionate parody

Parody

A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...

, the comics were created by the Belgian

Demographics of Belgium

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Belgium, including ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population...

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

Franco-Belgian comics magazines

Belgium and France have a long tradition in comics. They have a common history for comics and magazines.In the early years of its history, magazines had a large place on the comics market and were often the only place where comics were published. Most of them were kids-targeted.In the 1970s,...

Le Journal de Spirou

Spirou (magazine)

Spirou magazine is a weekly Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company...

on December 7, 1946. After several years of solitary work on the strip, Morris began a collaboration with René Goscinny

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

Des rails sur la Prairie

Des rails sur la Prairie is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and Morris. It is the ninth album in the Lucky Luke Series and the first on which Goscinny worked. The comic was printed by Dupuis in 1957.-External links:*...

published on August 25, 1955 in Spirou. Ending a long run of serial publications in Spirou, the series shifted to Goscinny's magazine Pilote

Pilote

thumb|Cover of the first Pilote teaser issue, #0.Pilote was a French comics periodical published from 1959 to 1989. Showcasing most of the major French or Belgian comics talents of its day the magazine introduced major series such as Astérix le Gaulois, Blueberry, Achille Talon, and Valérian et...

in 1967 with the story La Diligence

La Diligence

La Diligence is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the twenty eighth book in the series and was originally published in French in the year 1968.-Plot:...

, subsequently leaving publisher Dupuis

Dupuis

Éditions Dupuis S.A. is a Belgian publisher of comic books and magazines.Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis, and is mostly famous for its comic albums and magazines. It is originally a French language publisher, but publishes many editions both in French...

for Dargaud

Dargaud

Les Éditions Dargaud is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics series, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. It was founded in 1943 by Georges Dargaud.Initially, Dargaud published novels for women...

.

After the death of Goscinny in 1977, several writers have tried to fill the role of storyteller, including Vicq, Bob de Groot

Bob de Groot

Bob de Groot was born on 26 October 1941 in Brussels, to Dutch and French parents and is a Belgian comics artist and writer.-Biography:While still a young art student de Groot got his first comics experience as an assistant to Maurice Tillieux on Félix. He began creating shorter work for the comics...

, Jean Léturgie and Lo Hartog Van Banda

Lo Hartog van Banda

Lodewijk "Lo" Hartog van Banda was a Dutch comics writer.Working for the Toonder Studio's he co-wrote Aram, Kappie, Panda, Tom Puss and his own creation Koning Hollewijn. When Marten Toonder went to Ireland, Lo Hartog van Banda left the studio...

. In addition to continuing the series, Morris started the related spin-off series Rantanplan

Rantanplan

Rantanplan is a fictional hound dog created by Belgian comics artist Morris and French writer René Goscinny. Originally a supporting character in the Lucky Luke series, Rantanplan later starred in an eponymous series. Rantanplan is a spoof of Rin Tin Tin, as idiotic as Rin Tin Tin is clever...

in 1987. At the 1993 Angoulême International Comics Festival

Angoulême International Comics Festival

The Angoulême International Comics Festival is the largest comics festival in Europe. It has occurred every year since 1974 in Angoulême, France, in the month of January.The four-day festival is notable for awarding several prestigious prizes in cartooning...

, Lucky Luke was given an honorary exhibition.

After Morris' death in 2001, French artist Achdé

Achdé

Achdé, the pseudonym of Hervé Darmenton , is a French comic book writer and artist. The pseudonym is based on the French pronunciation of his initials, “H.D.”...

continued drawing new Lucky Luke stories in collaboration with writer Laurent Gerra.

Lucky Luke comics have been translated into Afrikaans, Arabic, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (both in the Brazilian and Portuguese forms), Serbian , Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese and Welsh.

The stories

Although always described as a cowboy

Cowboy

, Luke generally acts as a bounty hunter or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses. A recurring task is that of capturing bumbling gangsters the Dalton brothers

The Daltons (Lucky Luke)

The Daltons are fictional outlaws who regularly appear in the Lucky Luke comic book series and are recurrent villains. They were created by Morris and writer René Goscinny...

, Joe, William, Jack and Averell, and sometimes even their mother, Ma Dalton. He rides Jolly Jumper

Jolly Jumper

Jolly Jumper is a horse character in the Franco-Belgian comics series Lucky Luke, created by Belgian artist Morris. Described as "the smartest horse in the world" and able to perform tasks such as chess-playing and tightrope walking, Jolly Jumper accompanies his master in their travels across the...

, "the smartest horse in the world" and is often accompanied by Rantanplan

Rantanplan

, "the stupidest dog in the universe", a spoof of Rin Tin Tin

Rin Tin Tin

Rin Tin Tin was the name given to a dog adopted from a WWI battlefield that went on to star in twenty-three Hollywood films. The name was subsequently given to several related German Shepherd dogs featured in fictional stories on film, radio and television.-Origins:The first of the line Rin Tin...

.

Luke meets many historical Western figures like Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane

Martha Jane Cannary Burke , better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok, but also for having gained fame fighting Native Americans...

, Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid

William H. Bonney William H. Bonney William H. Bonney (born William Henry McCarty, Jr. est. November 23, 1859 – c. July 14, 1881, better known as Billy the Kid but also known as Henry Antrim, was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War and became a frontier...

, Judge Roy Bean

Roy Bean

Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. was an eccentric U.S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of...

and Jesse James's gang, and takes part in events such as the guarding of Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational diversified financial services company with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by assets and the largest bank by market capitalization. Wells Fargo is the second largest bank in deposits, home...

stagecoaches, the Pony Express

Pony Express

The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861...

, the building of the first transcontinental telegraph, the Rush into the Unassigned Lands

Unassigned Lands

Unassigned Lands, or Oklahoma, were in the center of the lands ceded to the United States by the Creek and Seminole Indians following the Civil War and on which no other tribes had been settled...

of Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

, and a tour by French actress Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas...

. Some of the books feature a one-page article on the background to the events featured. Goscinny once said that he and Morris tried to base the Lucky Luke adventures on real events whenever possible, but that they would not let the facts get in the way of a funny story.

The chronology of the albums is deliberately murky, and in most albums no particular year is given. The villains and incidental characters based on real persons lived over most of the mid- to late-19th century. For example, in the album Daily Star, Lucky Luke meets a young Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery...

, prior to his moving to New York. Although no year is mentioned in the album, this story must take place circa 1830, since the real Horace Greeley moved to New York in 1831. Judge Roy Bean

Roy Bean

, who was appointed judge in 1882, appears in another album, taking place some fifty years later – and in another album, Lucky Luke takes part in the 1892 Coffeyville

Coffeyville, Kansas

Coffeyville is a city situated along the Verdigris River in the southeastern part of Montgomery County, located in Southeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,295...

shootout against the Dalton Gang

Dalton Gang

The Dalton Gang, also known as The Dalton Brothers, was a family of both lawmen and outlaws in the American Old West during 1890-1892. They specialized in bank and train robberies. They were related to the Younger brothers, who rode with Jesse James, though they acted later and independently of...

. Lucky Luke himself is, of course, always the same age.

"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."

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

René Goscinny

(co-creator of Asterix

Asterix

) had Lucky Luke confronting Jesse James

Jesse James

Jesse Woodson James was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. He also faked his own death and was known as J.M James. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary...

, his brother Frank James

Frank James

Alexander Franklin "Frank" James was a famous American outlaw. He was the older brother of outlaw Jesse James.-Childhood:...

and Cole Younger

Cole Younger

Thomas Coleman "Cole" Younger was an American Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War and later an outlaw with the James-Younger gang...

. The adventure poked fun at the image of Jesse as a new Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....

. 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

Looting

Looting —also referred to as sacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging—is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as during war, natural disaster, or rioting...

for themselves. Frank quotes from Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

, and Younger is portrayed as a fun-loving joker, full of good humor. One critic has likened this version of the James brothers as "intellectual bandits, who won't stop theorising about their outlaw activities and hearing themselves talk." In the end, the at-first-cowed people of a town fight back against the James gang and send them packing tar and feathers

Tarring and feathering

Tarring and feathering is a physical punishment, used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge. It was used in feudal Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a type of mob vengeance .-Description:In a typical tar-and-feathers attack, the...

.
- Note the parodic depictions of the Pinkertons.

Smoking

"Lucky Luke's famous cigarette not only identifies a profile but allows the tempo to be modified and extended, expressing a feeling: in Le Pied-tendre

Le Pied-tendre

Le Pied-tendre is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original comic in French was published by Dargaud in 1968. English translations titled The Tenderfoot have been published by Dargaud-External links:* *...

(The Tenderfoot), Morris shows Lucky Luke's feelings at the death of a friend in a series of three frames in which the hero rolls and spills a cigarette."

Morris, who has been criticized over Lucky Luke's cigarette for a long time, answered his critics : "the cigarette is part of the character's profile, just like the pipe of Popeye

Popeye

Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic strips and animated cartoons in the cinema as well as on television. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929...

or Maigret

Maigret

Jules Maigret, Maigret to most people, including his wife, is a fictional police detective, actually a commissaire or commissioner of the Paris "Brigade Criminelle" , created by writer Georges Simenon.Seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short stories about Maigret were published between 1931 and...

". It is claimed that, Morris was forced to remove cigarettes Lucky Luke smokes from his strip and Lucky Luke who "used to be a heavy smoker

Smoker

Smoker is a noun derived from "smoke"/"smoking" and may have the following specialized meanings:* Someone who smokes tobacco or cannabis, cigarette substitutes, or various other drugs* Smoking , smoker, an apparatus for smoking...

", had to give up smoking

Smoking

Smoking is a practice in which a substance, most commonly tobacco or cannabis, is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a route of administration for recreational drug use, as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them...

for "commercial reasons", "apparently to gain access to the American market". On World No Tobacco Day

World No Tobacco Day

World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world every year on May 31. It is meant to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption across the globe. The day is further intended to draw global attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative...

in 1989, the magazine Spirou

Spirou (magazine)

Spirou magazine is a weekly Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company...

published a militantly anti-tobacco issue, #2668. Morris won an award from the World Health Organization

World Health Organization

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health...

in 1988 when he replaced Luke's omnipresent cigarette with a wisp of straw in 1983, "an anti-cigarette poster today proclaims "Even Lucky Luke can't stand them!" and shows the happy cowboy in a radical reversal of his image".
In the 2007 animated film "Tous à l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke", Lucky Luke is seen using what appears to be a nicotine patch and mentions that before that he had to "chew on a piece of straw for a while" right after he quit smoking. In the story "The bridge over the Mississipi", he is seen rolling a cigarette again, although he claims it was just to hide his boredom.

Stereotypes

Some of the humour in Lucky Luke is based on clichés and stereotypes, including many ethnic stereotype

Ethnic stereotype

An ethnic stereotype is a generalized representation of an ethnic group, composed of what are thought to be typical characteristics of members of the group.Ethnic stereotypes are commonly portrayed in ethnic jokes.-Ethnic stereotypes:*African Americans...

s of "sneaky" Chinese

Chinese people

The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People with Han Chinese ethnicity ....

or "lazy" Mexicans, Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

s, Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

and Italians as well as "darky" depictions of Afro-Americans. According to the Forbidden Planet (bookstore)

Forbidden Planet (bookstore)

Forbidden Planet is the trading name of two separate science fiction, fantasy and horror bookshop chains across the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States of America, after the feature film of the same name....

correspondent

Correspondent

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator, or more general speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign...

: "They played on the cliché

Cliché

A cliché or cliche is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel. In phraseology, the term has taken on a more technical meaning,...

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

Satire

Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

, mirroring contemporary social platitude

Platitude

A platitude is a trite, meaningless, biased, or prosaic statement, often presented as if it were significant and original. The word derives from plat, the French word for "flat." Whether any given statement is considered to have meaning is highly subjective, so platitude is often—but not...

s." Lucky Luke himself however, treats everyone with respect and protects any (stereotype-or-not) vulnerable person against injustice.

Lucky Luke characters of non-fiction origin

Roy Bean
Roy Bean
Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. was an eccentric U.S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of...
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas...
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid
William H. Bonney William H. Bonney William H. Bonney (born William Henry McCarty, Jr. est. November 23, 1859 – c. July 14, 1881, better known as Billy the Kid but also known as Henry Antrim, was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War and became a frontier...
Black Bart
Charles Bolles
Charles Earl Bowles , better known as Black Bart, was an English-born American Old West outlaw noted for his poetic messages left after two of his robberies. Also known as Charles Bolton, C.E...
Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a United States soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory , in LeClaire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US...

Ike Clanton

Joseph Isaac Clanton was born in Callaway County, Missouri. He is best known for being a member of group of outlaw Cowboys that had ongoing conflicts with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan Earp and Wyatt's friend Doc Holliday. The Clantons repeatedly threatened the Earps because they interfered with...

Newman Haynes Clanton

Dalton Gang

Edwin Drake

Edwin Laurentine Drake , also known as Colonel Drake, was an American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States.-Early life:...

James B. Eads

Virgil

Virgil Earp

Virgil Walter Earp fought in the Civil War. He was U.S. Deputy Marshal for south-eastern Arizona and Tombstone City Marshal at the time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona Territory. Two months after the shootout in Tombstone, outlaw Cowboys ambushed Virgil on the streets of...

, Morgan

Morgan Earp

Morgan Seth Earp was the younger brother of Deputy U.S. Marshals Virgil and Wyatt Earp. Morgan was a deputy of Virgil's and all three men were the target of repeated death threats made by outlaw Cowboys who were upset by the Earps' interference in their illegal activities. This conflict eventually...

& Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American gambler, investor, and law enforcement officer who served in several Western frontier towns. He was also at different times a farmer, teamster, bouncer, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. However, he was never a drover or cowboy. He is most well known...

Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery...

Hatfield & McCoy

Hatfield-McCoy feud

The Hatfield–McCoy feud involved two families of the West Virginia–Kentucky back country along the Tug Fork, off the Big Sandy River. The Hatfields of West Virginia were led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield while the McCoys of Kentucky under the leadership of Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy....

Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...

Doc Holliday

John Henry "Doc" Holliday was an American gambler, gunfighter and dentist of the American Old West, who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral...

Frank James

Alexander Franklin "Frank" James was a famous American outlaw. He was the older brother of outlaw Jesse James.-Childhood:...

Jesse James

Calamity Jane

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...

George Maledon

George Maledon was a hangman aptly nicknamed "The Prince of Hangmen", who served in the federal court of Judge Isaac Parker.-Early life:...

Joshua Norton

Isaac C. Parker

Isaac Parker

Isaac Charles Parker served as a U.S. District Judge presiding over the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas for 21 years and also one-time politician. He served in that capacity during the most dangerous time for law enforcement during the western expansion...

Allan Pinkerton

Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.-Early life, career and immigration:...

Frederic Remington

Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S...

Mattie Silks

Mattie Silks, or Martha Ready , was a leading madam and brothel keeper in the latter part of the 19th century.-Early life:Born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, raised in Indiana, Silks began her working career in Springfield, Illinois...

Soapy Smith

Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II was an American con artist and gangster who had a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver, Colorado; Creede, Colorado; and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. He was killed in the famed Shootout on Juneau Wharf...

Belle Starr

Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr , better known as Belle Starr, was a notorious American outlaw.-Early life:...

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

Nick Wilson

Nick Wilson is a field hockey striker from New Zealand. He currently plays for New Zealand's Hockey National Team, the Black Stick men's team. He attended Palmerston North Boys' High School, where he represented their first eleven team from 2005 to 2007...

Lucky Luke in other media

Animation

Four theatrical animated films were created. In 1990, Disney

Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures is an American film studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Pictures and Television, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studios and the main production company for live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, based at the Walt Disney...

released one of them, The Ballad of the Daltons, on VHS. Three of the movies were part of a trilogy

Trilogy

A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games...

. The first of the films was titled Daisy Town

Daisy Town (1971 film)

Daisy Town is a 1971 French-Belgian film based on the comic series Lucky Luke. A Lucky Luke comic with the title Daisy Town was released in 1982-Plot:...

(1971), followed by La Ballade des Dalton

La Ballade des Dalton

La Ballade des Dalton is a Lucky Luke adventure. A 1978 animated film from France written by Goscinny and Morris. Two different adaptations into book form were both published in French in 1978. The first, adapted by Guy Vidal, was in text form rather than comic strip, and was accompanied by images...

(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

Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...

studios and Morris released 26 episodes, and in 1991, 26 more episodes were released. In 2001, Xilam

Xilam

Xilam is a French production company that specializes in animated series feature films. Originally founded as Gaumont Multimédia, the company adopted it's current name in 1999...

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

George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1858, where he graduated last in his class...

, in this incarnation an Indian-hater and a dwarf.
Xilam

Xilam

Xilam is a French production company that specializes in animated series feature films. Originally founded as Gaumont Multimédia, the company adopted it's current name in 1999...

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.

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

Lucky Luke (TV Series)

Lucky Luke was a short-lived Italian western-comedy series starred by Terence Hill that aired in 1992, and was based on the Belgian comic book series Lucky Luke and on a movie with the same title directed and produced by the same Hill in 1991...

) starring Terence Hill

Terence Hill

Terence Hill is an Italian actor. He is best known for starring in multiple action and western films together with his longtime filmpartner Bud Spencer.-Biography:...

as Lucky Luke were produced.

In 2004 the film Les Dalton

Les Dalton

Les Dalton is a 2004 French Western comedy film directed by Philippe Haïm. It was inspired by the characters The Daltons in the comic Lucky Luke. It was filmed in France, Germany, and Spain. It was released 8 December 2004....

featured Til Schweiger

Til Schweiger

Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger is a German actor, director, and producer.He is one of Germany’s most successful filmmakers. Since 1968, when the FFA started counting, no other German actor has drawn more people to the cinemas. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, in Berlin.-Early...

as Lucky Luke.

In 2009, Yves Marmion and UGC, the producers of Les Dalton, produced the film Lucky Luke starring French comedian Jean Dujardin

Jean Dujardin

-Life and career:Dujardin was born in Rueil-Malmaison. Dujardin first became famous on the French talent show Graines de star in 1996 as part of the comedy group Nous C Nous, formed by members of the Carré blanc theater. From 1999 to 2003 he starred in the French version of the comedy television...

as the gunslinger. The film was released on October 21, 2009 in Europe.

Television Shows

1. Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...

"Lucky Luke" (1983)
2. Xilam
Xilam
Xilam is a French production company that specializes in animated series feature films. Originally founded as Gaumont Multimédia, the company adopted it's current name in 1999...

"Les Adventures De Lucky Luke" (2001)
3. Xilam
Xilam
Xilam is a French production company that specializes in animated series feature films. Originally founded as Gaumont Multimédia, the company adopted it's current name in 1999...

"Rantanplan" (2008)
4. Xilam
Xilam
Xilam is a French production company that specializes in animated series feature films. Originally founded as Gaumont Multimédia, the company adopted it's current name in 1999...

"Les Dalton" (2010)

Video games

Over the years, several Lucky Luke video games were released for many platforms, most of them by Infogrames

Infogrames

Infogrames Entertainment SA was an international French holding company headquartered in Paris, France. It was the owner of Atari, Inc., headquartered in New York City, U.S. and Atari Europe. It was founded in 1983 by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet using the proceeds from an introductory...

, and only released in Europe (the only ones released for the North American market were the Game Boy Color

Game Boy Color

The is Nintendo's successor to the 8-bit Game Boy handheld game console, and was released on October 21, 1998 in Japan, November 19, 1998 in North America, November 23, 1998 in Europe and November 27, 1998 in the United Kingdom. It features a color screen and is slightly thicker and taller than...

and PlayStation

PlayStation

The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...

versions).
A Lucky Luke game was also developed for mobile phones by The Mighty Troglodytes. Lucky Luke: Go West was released in Europe for the PC, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS in the end of 2007.

Dupuis Publishing

1. La Mine d'or de Dick Digger
La Mine d'or de Dick Digger
La Mine d'or de Dick Digger, written and drawn by Morris, is an album containing two stories from serial publication in Le Journal de Spirou during 1947, namely La Mine d'or de Dick Digger and Le Sosie de Lucky Luke...

, 1949 (Dick Digger's Gold Mine)
2. Rodéo
Rodéo (Lucky Luke)
Rodéo, written and drawn by Morris, is an album containing three stories from serial publication in Le Journal de Spirou during 1948-49, namely Grand rodéo, Lucky Luke à Desperado-City and La ruée vers l'or de Buffalo Creek...

, 1949
3. Arizona
Arizona (Lucky Luke)
Arizona is a Lucky Luke comic by Morris, it was the third album in the series and was printed by Dupuis in 1951.-External links:*...

, 1951
4. Sous le ciel de l'Ouest
Sous le ciel de l'Ouest
Sous le ciel de l'Ouest is a Lucky Luke comic by Morris, it was the fourth album in the series and was printed by Dupuis in 1952.-External links:*...

, 1952 (Under the Western Sky)
5. Lucky Luke contre Pat Poker
Lucky Luke contre Pat Poker
Lucky Luke contre Pat Poker is a Lucky Luke comic by Morris, it was the fifth album in the series and was printed by Dupuis in 1953.-External links:*...

, 1953 (Lucky Luke versus Pat Poker)
6. Hors-la-loi, 1954 (Outlaw)
7. L'Élixir du Dr Doxey
L'Élixir du Dr Doxey
L'Élixir du Dr Doxey is a Lucky Luke adventure in French, written and illustrated by Morris. It is the seventh title in the original series and, published by Dupuis in 1955.-External links:*...

, 1955 (Dr Doxey's Elixir)
8. Lucky Luke contre Phil Defer
Lucky Luke contre Phil Defer
Lucky Luke contre Phil Defer is a Lucky Luke adventure in French, written and illustrated by Morris it was the eighth title in the original series and was published by Dupuis in 1956. Phil Defer is a caricature of Jack Palance.-External links:*...

, 1956 (Phil Defer a French play on Fil de Fer - Iron Wire)
10. Alerte aux Pieds Bleus
Alerte aux Pieds Bleus
Alerte aux Pieds Bleus is a Lucky Luke adventure in French, written and illustrated by Morris it was the tenth title in the original series and was published by Dupuis in 1958...

, 1958 (Beware of the Bluefoots)

Dupuis Publishing

9. Des rails sur la Prairie
Des rails sur la Prairie
Des rails sur la Prairie is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and Morris. It is the ninth album in the Lucky Luke Series and the first on which Goscinny worked. The comic was printed by Dupuis in 1957.-External links:*...

, 1957 (Rails on the Prairie)
11. Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon
Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon
Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and Morris. It is the eleventh album in the Lucky Luke Series and the second on which Goscinny worked. The comic was printed by Dupuis in 1958.-External links:*...

, 1958 (Lucky Luke versus Joss Jamon)
12. Les Cousins Dalton
Les Cousins Dalton
Les Cousins Dalton is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and Morris. It is the twelfth album in the Lucky Luke Serie. The comic was printed by Dupuis in 1958....

, 1958 (The Dalton Cousins)
13. Le Juge
Le Juge
Le Juge is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and Morris. It is the thirteenth album in the Lucky Luke Series . The comic was printed by Dupuis in 1959. The story is inspired by the historical Justice of the peace Roy Bean. As usual Lucky Luke does not interfere unless injustice is done, or one...

, 1959 (The Judge)
14. Ruée sur l'Oklahoma
Ruée sur l'Oklahoma
Ruée sur l'Oklahoma is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and Morris. It is the fourteenth album in the Lucky Luke Series . The comic was printed by Dupuis in 1960. The story is based on the historical Land Run of 1889.-External links:* *...

, 1960 (The Oklahoma Run)
15. L'Évasion des Dalton
L'Évasion des Dalton
L'Évasion des Dalton is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and Morris. It is the fifteenth album in the Lucky Luke Series . The comic was printed by Dupuis in 1960.-External links:* *...

, 1960 (The Daltons Escape)
16. En remontant le Mississippi
En remontant le Mississippi
En remontant le Mississippi is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and Morris. It is the sixteenth title in the Lucky Luke Series . The comic was printed by Dupuis in 1961.-External links:* *...

, 1961 (Travelling Up The Mississippi)
17. Sur la piste des Dalton
Sur la piste des Dalton
Sur la piste des Dalton is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and Morris. It is the seventeenth title in the Lucky Luke Series . The comic was printed by Dupuis in 1962.-External links:* *...

, 1962 (On the Daltons' Trail)
18. À l'ombre des derricks
À l'ombre des derricks
À l'ombre des derricks is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the eighteenth title in the series and it was originally published by Dupuis in 1962, in French. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud-External links:* *...

, 1962 (In the Shadow of the Derricks)
19. Les Rivaux de Painful Gulch
Les Rivaux de Painful Gulch
Les Rivaux de Painful Gulch is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the nineteenth book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1962...

, 1962 (The Rivals of Painful Gulch)
20. Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid (Lucky Luke)
Billy the Kid is a Lucky Luke comic book written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris.It is the twentieth title in the series. The original French language version was printed in 1962 by Dupuis...

, 1962
21. Les Collines noires
Les Collines noires
Les Collines noires is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the twenty first book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1962 . One of the greatest albums ever, Lucky Luke accompanies a group of scientists that have been...

, 1963 (The Black Hills)
22. Les Dalton dans le blizzard
Les Dalton dans le blizzard
Les Dalton dans le blizzard is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the twenty-second book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1963 .-External links:* *...

, 1963 (The Daltons in the Blizzard)
23. Les Dalton courent toujours
Les Dalton courent toujours
Les Dalton courent toujours is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the twenty third book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1964 .-External links:* *...

, 1964 (The Daltons Always On The Run)
24. La Caravane
La Caravane
La Caravane is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It was originally published in French by Dupuis in the year 1964 . English editions of this French series titled The Wagon Train have been published by Dargaud and Cinebooks.-External links:* *...

, 1964 (The Wagon Train )
25. La Ville fantôme
La Ville fantôme
La Ville fantôme is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French language version was printed in 1965 by Dupuis. English editions of this comic have been published by Dargaud under the title Ghost Town....

, 1965 (Ghost Town)
26. Les Dalton se rachètent
Les Dalton se rachètent
Les Dalton se rachètent is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the twenty sixth book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1965 .-External links:* *...

, 1965 (The Daltons Redeem Themselves)
27. Le Vingtième de cavalerie
Le Vingtième de cavalerie
Le Vingtième de cavalerie is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the twenty seventh book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1965 .-Plot:...

, 1965 (The 20th of the Cavalry)
28. L'Escorte
L'Escorte
L'Escorte is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the twenty eighth book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1966 .-Plot:...

, 1966 (The Escort)
29. Des barbelés sur la prairie
Des barbelés sur la prairie
Des barbelés sur la prairie is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It was originally published in French by Dupuis in the year 1967 with the title-Des barbelés sur la prairie...

, 1967 (Barbed Wire on the Prairie)
30. Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane (Lucky Luke)
Calamity Jane is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It was originally published in French by Dupuis in the year 1967. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud.-External links:* *...

, 1967
31. Tortillas pour les Dalton
Tortillas pour les Dalton
Tortillas pour les Daltons is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris published by Dupuis in the year 1967 . It was translated into English as Tortillas for the Daltons . English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud and Cinebooks.-External...

, 1967 (Tortillas for the Daltons)

Dargaud Publishing

32. La Diligence
La Diligence
La Diligence is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the twenty eighth book in the series and was originally published in French in the year 1968.-Plot:...

, 1968 (The Stagecoach)
33. Le Pied-tendre
Le Pied-tendre
Le Pied-tendre is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original comic in French was published by Dargaud in 1968. English translations titled The Tenderfoot have been published by Dargaud-External links:* *...

, 1968 (The Tenderfoot)
34. Dalton City
Dalton City (Lucky Luke)
Dalton City is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French comic was published by Dargaud in 1969. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud.-Plot:...

, 1969
35. Jesse James
Jesse James (Lucky Luke)
Jesse James is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French edition was printed in 1969 by Dargaud. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud, Cinebook. Brockhampton Press and Tara Press...

, 1969
36. Western Circus, 1970
37. Canyon Apache
Canyon Apache
Canyon Apache is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and Morris. It was first published by Dargaud in French in the year 1971 with the title Canyon Apache. English editions have been published by Knight Books, in 1977, and Cinebook in 2009....

, 1971 (Apache Canyon)
38. Ma Dalton, 1971
39. Chasseur de primes
Chasseur de primes
Chasseur de primes is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the thirty ninth book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1972 .-Plot:...

, 1972 (The Bounty Hunter)
40. Le Grand Duc
Le Grand Duc
Le Grand Duc is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the fortieth book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1973 .-Plot:...

, 1973 (The Grand Duke)
41. L'Héritage de Rantanplan
L'Héritage de Rantanplan
L'Héritage de Rantanplan is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the forty first book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1973 .-External links:* *...

, 1973 (Rantanplan's Inheritance)
42. 7 histoires complètes - série 1, 1974 (7 Full Stories - Series 1)
43. Le Cavalier blanc
Le Cavalier blanc
Le Cavalier blanc is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and Morris. English translation of this French comic titled The Dashing White Cowboy has been published by Dargaud.-Plot:...

, 1975 (The Dashing White Cowboy)
44. La Guérison des Dalton
La Guérison des Dalton
La Guérison des Dalton is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the forty fourth book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1975 .-Plot:...

, 1975 (The Daltons' Cure)
45. L'Empereur Smith
L'Empereur Smith
L'Empereur Smith is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the forty fifth book in the series and It was originally published in French in the year 1976. The story is loosely based on the life of the historical Emperor Norton of San Francisco.-External links:* *...

, 1976 (Emperor Smith)
46. Le Fil qui chante
Le Fil qui chante
Le Fil qui chante is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It is the forty sixth book in the series and it was originally published in French in the year 1977. The story is based on the historical feat of constructing the First Transcontinental Telegraph line...

, 1977 (The Singing Wire)
HS. La Ballade des Dalton
La Ballade des Dalton
La Ballade des Dalton is a Lucky Luke adventure. A 1978 animated film from France written by Goscinny and Morris. Two different adaptations into book form were both published in French in 1978. The first, adapted by Guy Vidal, was in text form rather than comic strip, and was accompanied by images...

, 1978 (The Daltons' Ballad)
50. La Corde du pendu
La Corde du pendu
La Corde du pendu is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny with Morris and illustrated by Morris. It was originally published in French in the year 1981.The name recalls La Corde du Pendu , the last and incomplete novel featuring Rocambole....

, 1981 (The Rope of the Hanged)
51. Daisy Town
Daisy Town
Daisy Town is a Lucky Luke adventure written by Goscinny with Morris and illustrated by Morris. It was originally published in French in the year 1983. The comic is an adaptation of the 1971 movie Daisy Town.-External links:* *...

, 1983
55. La Ballade des Dalton et autres histoires, 1986 (The Dalton's Ballad and Other Stories)

Dargaud Publishing

47. Le Magot des Dalton, 1980, by Vicq (The Daltons' Loot)
48. Le Bandit manchot, 1981, by Bob de Groot
Bob de Groot
Bob de Groot was born on 26 October 1941 in Brussels, to Dutch and French parents and is a Belgian comics artist and writer.-Biography:While still a young art student de Groot got his first comics experience as an assistant to Maurice Tillieux on Félix. He began creating shorter work for the comics...

(The One-Armed Bandit)
49. Sarah Bernhardt, 1982, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche
52. Fingers, 1983, by Lo Hartog Van Banda
53. Le Daily Star, 1983, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (The Daily Star)
54. La Fiancée de Lucky Luke, 1985, by Guy Vidal (Lucky Luke's Fiancee)
56. Le Ranch maudit, 1986, by Jean Léturgie, Xavier Fauche and Claude Guylouis (The Cursed Ranch)
57. Nitroglycérine, 1987, by Lo Hartog Van Banda
58. L'Alibi, 1987, by Claude Guylouis (The Alibi)
59. Le Pony Express, 1988], by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (The Pony Express)

Lucky Productions

60. L'Amnésie des Dalton, 1991, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (The Daltons' Amnesia)
61. Chasse aux fantômes, 1992, by Lo Hartog Van Banda (Ghosthunt)
62. Les Dalton à la noce, 1993, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (The Daltons at a Wedding)
63. Le Pont sur le Mississippi, 1994, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (Bridge Over The Mississippi)
64. Kid Lucky, 1995, by Pearce and Jean Léturgie
65. Belle Star, 1995, by Xavier Fauche
66. Le Klondike, 1996, by Yann and Jean Léturgie (The Klondike)
67. O.K. Corral, 1997, by Eric Adam and Xavier Fauche
68. Oklahoma Jim, 1997, by Pearce and Jean Léturgie
69. Marcel Dalton, 1998, by Bob de Groot

Lucky Comics

70. Le Prophète, 2000, by Patrick Nordmann (The Prophet)
71. L'Artiste peintre, 2001, by Bob de Groot (The Painter)
72. La Légende de l'Ouest, 2002, by Patrick Nordmann (The Legend Of The West)

Lucky Comics

73. La Belle Province, 2004 (The Beautiful Province)
74. La Corde au cou, 2006 (The Noose)
75. L'Homme de Washington, 2008 (The man from Washington)

Lucky Comics

76. Lucky Luke contre Pinkerton, 2010 (Lucky Luke vs Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.-Early life, career and immigration:...

)

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

Giggle

A giggle is a high-pitched, bubbly way of laughing. It is usually suppressed, resulting in short bursts of laughter. A giggle is often considered a very feminine laugh. Giggling is sometimes affiliated with laughing gas a dentist would administer. Giggling is also sometimes done nervously. Giggling...

(in 1967). The Giggle

Giggle

version had Luke's name changed to "Buck Bingo".
Cinebook Ltd

Cinebook Ltd

Cinebook Ltd is a British publishing company that publishes comic books and graphic novels. It describes itself as "the 9th art publisher," the 9th art being comics in continental Europe, especially France, Italy and Greece....

have been publishing English language translations of Lucky Luke since 2006. One new volume is released every two months. In India only, Euro Books, a division of Euro Kids International Ltd. published English versions of 24 Lucky Luke titles in 2009.
Brockhampton Press
Brockhampton Press
Brockhampton Press was a British publishing company, based in Leicester. Originally specialising in children's books, from about 1940, it published well known series, including Asterix, many of Enid Blyton's story collections and Scottish author Nigel Tranter's children's books.It is now an imprint...

(UK)

Jesse James
Jesse James (Lucky Luke)
Jesse James is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French edition was printed in 1969 by Dargaud. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud, Cinebook. Brockhampton Press and Tara Press...

, 1972
The Stagecoach, 1972

Knight Books (UK)

The Stagecoach, 1976
Apache Canyon, 1977

Dargaud
Dargaud
Les Éditions Dargaud is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics series, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. It was founded in 1943 by Georges Dargaud.Initially, Dargaud published novels for women...

USA and Canada

The Stage Coach, USA, 1980s
The Greenhorn, USA, 1980s
Dalton City
Dalton City (Lucky Luke)
Dalton City is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French comic was published by Dargaud in 1969. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud.-Plot:...

, USA, 1980s
Jesse James
Jesse James (Lucky Luke)
Jesse James is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French edition was printed in 1969 by Dargaud. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud, Cinebook. Brockhampton Press and Tara Press...

, USA, 1980s
Western Circus
Western Circus (Lucky Luke)
Western Circus is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It was originally published in French by Dargaud in the year 1970 . English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud....

, USA, 1980s
Ma Dalton
Ma Dalton (Lucky Luke)
Ma Dalton is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It was first published in French in the year 1971 by Dargaud. English editions of this French series have been published by Cinebooks and Tara Press....

, USA, 1980s
The Dalton Brothers' Analyst, Canada, 1982
Curing the Daltons, Canada, 1982

Fantasy Flight
Fantasy Flight Games
Fantasy Flight Games is a Roseville, Minnesota-based game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. Fantasy Flight Publishing was founded in 1995 by its CEO, Christian T. Petersen. Since the release of its first game product in 1997, the company has been doing...

(US)

The Stage Coach, 1990s
Jesse James
Jesse James (Lucky Luke)
Jesse James is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French edition was printed in 1969 by Dargaud. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud, Cinebook. Brockhampton Press and Tara Press...

, 1990s

Ravette Books (UK)

The Dalton Brothers Memory Game, 1991

Glo'worm (UK)

Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane (Lucky Luke)
Calamity Jane is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It was originally published in French by Dupuis in the year 1967. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud.-External links:* *...

, 1998
Dalton City
Dalton City (Lucky Luke)
Dalton City is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French comic was published by Dargaud in 1969. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud.-Plot:...

, 1998
Ma Dalton
Ma Dalton (Lucky Luke)
Ma Dalton is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It was first published in French in the year 1971 by Dargaud. English editions of this French series have been published by Cinebooks and Tara Press....

, 1999
Jesse James
Jesse James (Lucky Luke)
Jesse James is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French edition was printed in 1969 by Dargaud. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud, Cinebook. Brockhampton Press and Tara Press...

, 1998
The Tenderfoot, 1999
Western Circus
Western Circus (Lucky Luke)
Western Circus is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It was originally published in French by Dargaud in the year 1970 . English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud....

, 2000
The Dashing White Cowboy, 2000

Cinebook Ltd
Cinebook Ltd
Cinebook Ltd is a British publishing company that publishes comic books and graphic novels. It describes itself as "the 9th art publisher," the 9th art being comics in continental Europe, especially France, Italy and Greece....

1. Billy The Kid
Billy the Kid (Lucky Luke)
Billy the Kid is a Lucky Luke comic book written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris.It is the twentieth title in the series. The original French language version was printed in 1962 by Dupuis...

, 2006, ISBN 1905460112
2. Ghost Town, 2006, ISBN 1905460120
3. Dalton City
Dalton City (Lucky Luke)
Dalton City is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French comic was published by Dargaud in 1969. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud.-Plot:...

, 2006, ISBN 1905460139
4. Jesse James
Jesse James (Lucky Luke)
Jesse James is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. The original French edition was printed in 1969 by Dargaud. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud, Cinebook. Brockhampton Press and Tara Press...

, 2006, ISBN 1905460147
5. In the Shadow of the Derricks, 2007, ISBN 1905460171
6. Ma Dalton
Ma Dalton (Lucky Luke)
Ma Dalton is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It was first published in French in the year 1971 by Dargaud. English editions of this French series have been published by Cinebooks and Tara Press....

, 2007, ISBN 9781905460182
7. Barbed Wire on the Prairie, 2007, ISBN 9781905460243
8. Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane (Lucky Luke)
Calamity Jane is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It was originally published in French by Dupuis in the year 1967. English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud.-External links:* *...

, 2007, ISBN 9781905460250
9. The Wagon Train, 2008, ISBN 9781905460403
10. Tortillas for the Daltons, 2008, ISBN 9781905460496
11. Western Circus
Western Circus (Lucky Luke)
Western Circus is a Lucky Luke comic written by Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. It was originally published in French by Dargaud in the year 1970 . English editions of this French series have been published by Dargaud....

, 2008, ISBN 9781905460557
12. The Rivals of Painful Gulch, 2008, ISBN 9781905460601
13. The Tenderfoot, 2008, ISBN 9781905460656
14. The Dashing White Cowboy, 2008, ISBN 9781905460663
15. The Daltons in the Blizzard, 2009, ISBN 9781905460762
16. The Black Hills, 2009, ISBN 9781905460830
17. Apache Canyon, 2009, ISBN 9781905460922
18. The Escort, 2009, ISBN 9781905460984
19. On the Daltons' Trail, 2009, ISBN 9781849180078
20. The Oklahoma Land Rush, 2009, ISBN 9781849180085
21. The 20th Cavalry, 2010, ISBN 9781849180160
22. Emperor Smith, 2010, ISBN 9781849180269
23. A Cure for the Daltons, 2010, ISBN 9781849180344
24. The Judge, 2010, ISBN 9781849180450
25. The Stagecoach, 2010, ISBN 9781849180528
26. The Bounty Hunter, 2010, ISBN 9781849180597
27. Lucky Luke versus Joss Jamon, 2011, ISBN 9781849180719
28. The Dalton Cousins, 2011, ISBN 9781849180764
29. The Grand Duke, 2011, ISBN 9781849180832
30. The Daltons' Escape, 2011, ISBN 9781849180917
31. Lucky Luke versus the Pinkertons, 2011, ISBN 9781849180986
32. Rails on the Prairie, 2011, tbc
33. The One-Armed Bandit, 2012, tbc
34. The Daltons Always On The Run, 2012, tbc
35. The Singing Wire, 2012, tbc

Eurokids

1. The Alibi, 2009, ISBN 9788128620331
2. Ghost Hunt, 2009, ISBN 9788128620355
3. Kid Lucky, 2009, ISBN 9788128620379
4. Oklahoma Jim, 2009, ISBN 9788128620409
5. The Prophet, 2009, ISBN 9788128620416
6. Belle Star, 2009, ISBN 9788128620386
7. The Klondike, 2009, ISBN 9788128620393
8. The Pony Express, 2009, ISBN 9788128620348
9. Sarah Bernardt, 2009, ISBN 9788128620423
10. The bridge on the Mississippi, 2009, ISBN 9788128620362
11. The Hanged Man’s Rope and other stories, 2009, ISBN 9788128620430
12. The Ballad of the Daltons and other stories, 2009, ISBN 9788128620560
13. Daisy Town, 2009, ISBN 9788128620447
14. Fingers, 2009, ISBN 9788128620454
15. Marcel Dalton, 2009, ISBN 9788128620461
16. The Artist, 2009, ISBN 9788128620478
17. The legend of the west, 2009, ISBN 9788128620485
18. The Daily Star, 2009, ISBN 9788128620492
19. Lucky Luke’s fiancé, 2009, ISBN 9788128620508
20. Nitroglycerine, 2009, ISBN 9788128620515
21. The Cursed Ranch, 2009, ISBN 9788128620522
22. The Beautiful Province, 2009, ISBN 9788128620539
23. From the gallows to the altar, 2009, ISBN 9788128620546
24. The Dalton’s Loot, 2009, ISBN 9788128620553

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Publication history

The stories

Jesse James

Smoking

Stereotypes

Lucky Luke characters of non-fiction origin

Lucky Luke in other media

Animation

Live-action film and television

Television Shows

Video games

Dupuis Publishing

Dupuis Publishing

Dargaud Publishing

Dargaud Publishing

Lucky Productions

Lucky Comics

Lucky Comics

Lucky Comics

English translations

Further reading

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