{"id":32673,"date":"2025-04-23T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=32673"},"modified":"2025-04-22T17:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:01:33","slug":"lucky-luke-volume-47-outlaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/04\/23\/lucky-luke-volume-47-outlaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Luke volume 47: Outlaws"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Morris<\/strong>, translated by Jerome Saincantin <\/strong>(Cinebook)
\nISBN: 978-1-84918-201-0 (Album PB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

Doughty, rangy,and dashingly dependable cowboy Lucky Luke<\/strong> is an implacably even-tempered do-gooder who can \u201cdraw faster than his own shadow\u201d. He amiably ambles around the mythic, cinematically realised Old West, having light-hearted adventures on his petulant and stingingly sarcastic wonder-horse Jolly Jumper<\/em>. Over nine decades, his exploits in Le Journal de Spirou<\/em><\/strong> (and from 1967, in rival periodica Pilote<\/em><\/strong>) have made the sharp shooter a legend of stories across all media and monument of merchandising.<\/p>\n

Working solo with occasional script assistance from his brother Louis, Morris – AKA Maurice de B\u00e9v\u00e8re – produced 10 albums worth of affectionate and thrilling sagebrush parody before formally uniting with Ren\u00e9 Goscinny, who became regular wordslinger with Des rails sur la Prairie<\/em><\/strong> (Rails on the Prairie<\/strong>), which commenced in Le Journal de<\/em><\/strong> Spirou<\/em> <\/strong>on August 25th<\/sup> 1955.<\/p>\n

They literarily rode together on another 44 albums as Luke attained the dizzying heights of superstardom. The partnership continued when the six-gun straight-shooter switched teams, transferring to Goscinny\u2019s own magazine Pilote<\/em> <\/strong>with La Diligence<\/em><\/strong> (The Stagecoach<\/strong>). After Goscinny died, Morris continued both singly and with fresh collaborators. The dream team\u2019s last ride was 1986\u2019s La Ballade des Dalton et autres histoires<\/em><\/strong>\/The Ballad Of The Daltons and Other Stories<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Morris worked alone again before inviting an inspiring passel of legacy creators to step in. These included Achd\u00e9 & Laurent Gerra, Benacquista & Pennac, Xavier Fauche, Jean L\u00e9turgie, Jacques Pessis and others, who all took their own shots at the lovable lone rider. Morris died in 2001, having drawn fully 70 adventures, plus many sidebar and spin-off sagebrush sagas. Since 2016 Julien Berjeaut, AKA Jul (Silex and the City<\/strong>) has handled the tall tale telling…<\/p>\n

Lucky is one of the top-ranked comic characters in the world, having generated 94 albums (if you count spin-off series like Kid Lucky<\/strong> and Ran-Tan-Plan<\/strong>, and artist\u2019s specials) with sales totalling north of 300 million in 33 languages. That renown has translated into a mountain of merchandise, toys, games, animated cartoons, TV shows and live-action movies and even commemorative exhibitions. No theme park yet, but you never know\u2026<\/p>\n

Our taciturn trailblazer\u2019s travails draw on western history as much as movie mythology and regularly interacts with historical and legendary figures as well as even odder fictional folk re-exploring and refining key themes of classic cowboy films – as well as some uniquely European notions and interpretations. As previously hinted, the happy wanderer is not averse to being a figure of political change and Weapon of Mass Satire\u2026 but not this time\u2026<\/p>\n

We Brits first encountered Lucky Luke<\/strong> in the late 1950s, syndicated to weekly comic Film Fun<\/strong>, and again in 1967 in Giggle<\/strong> where he blazed trails as Buck Bingo<\/em>. In all these venues – as well as numerous attempts to capitalise on \u00a0the English-language success of Tintin<\/strong> and Asterix<\/strong> albums from Brockhampton and Knight Books – Luke had his trademark cigarette hanging insouciantly from his lip, but in 1983 Morris – no doubt amidst both pained howls and muted mutterings of political correctness gone mad – substituted a piece of straw for the much-travelled dog-end, which garnered him an official tip of the hat from the World Health Organization. In this restored remastered edition, the dogend is restored, so if that\u2019s a problem, stop here and seek out another, later Lucky lark…
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\nFirst published continentally in December 1954, Hors-la-loi<\/em><\/strong> was the 6th<\/sup> European album and an all Morris affaire comprising two short serials. Eponymous lead strip \u2018Outlaws\u2019<\/em> originally ran in LJdS<\/em><\/strong> #701-731 from September 20th<\/sup> 1951 to April 17th<\/sup> 1952, with our hero hired by the railroad companies to end the depredations of Emmett Bill<\/em>, Grat <\/em>and Bob Dalton<\/em>: real life badmen who plagued the region during the 1890s, imported into the strip and given a comedic, but still vicious spin.<\/p>\n

A cat & mouse chase across the wildest of wests sees Luke constantly frustrated by close calls and narrow escapes in superbly gripping movie set-pieces until, inevitably, justice claims the killers. At the close of this yarn, Morris had Lucky end the gang forever, but they and the story itself were insanely popular with fans. The villains were comedy gold and ideal foils for Lucky, so eventually they returned in the form of their own cousins, but we\u2019ll tell that tale another time and place.<\/p>\n

Actually, lets do some of it right now…<\/p>\n

A certified Christmas must-have item, Lucky Luke album Outlaws<\/strong> also carried \u2018Return of the Dalton Brothers\u2019<\/em> – as first seen in LJdS<\/em><\/strong> #755-764 (October 2nd<\/sup> – December 4th<\/sup> 1952). Here, fraudster Bill Boney<\/em> campaigns to become sheriff of a prosperous frontier town by claiming to be the killer of those infamous owlhoots. He is an absolute \u201cwrong \u2018un\u201d but seems utterly unstoppable… until Lucky orchestrates a brief and equally fake resurrection of the bandit brothers. A little rampage and faux lynching and Boney learns a lesson that the townsfolk will never forget…
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\nFrom the response to that tale eventually came the aforementioned revival, as Goscinny\u2019s third collaboration introduced Les Cousins Dalton<\/em><\/strong> in issues #992-1013 (1957) of Le Journal de Spirou<\/em><\/strong>. When this iteration of the appalling Dalton Brothers<\/em> – Averell<\/em>, Jack<\/em>, William<\/em> and devious, slyly psychotic, tyrannical diminutive brother Joe <\/em>showed up, the course of the strip altered forever…<\/p>\n

These youthful forays of an indomitable hero offer grand joys in the wry tradition of Destry Rides Again<\/strong> and Support Your Local Sheriff<\/strong>, superbly executed by a master storyteller: a wonderful introduction to a unique genre for modern kids who might well have missed the romantic allure of the Wild West that never was\u2026
\n\u00a9 Dargaud Editeur Paris 1971 by Morris. \u00a9 Lucky Comics. English translation \u00a9 2014 Cinebook Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Morris, translated by Jerome Saincantin (Cinebook) ISBN: 978-1-84918-201-0 (Album PB\/Digital edition) This book includes Discriminatory Content produced in less enlightened times. Doughty, rangy,and dashingly dependable cowboy Lucky Luke is an implacably even-tempered do-gooder who can \u201cdraw faster than his own shadow\u201d. He amiably ambles around the mythic, cinematically realised Old West, having light-hearted adventures … <\/p>\n

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