Spirou et l'aventure

Spirou et Fantasio Spirou et l'aventure
Cover of the Belgian edition
Date	1948
Series	Spirou et Fantasio
Publisher	Dupuis
Creative team
Writers	Jijé
Artists	Jijé
Original publication
Published in	Spirou magazine
Issues	35/43 - #423
Date of publication	1943 - 1946
Language	French
Chronology
Followed by	Spirou et Fantasio, 1948

Spirou et l'aventure, written and drawn by Jijé, is the first published album containing Spirou et Fantasio adventures. The 6 featured stories were produced during and after World War II, and serialised in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Le journal de Spirou (Spirou magazine) during this unusual period. They were assembled and published as a hardcover album in 1948 and feature the first appearances of Fantasio.

Story

Contains the stories:

• Le meeting aérien (1943)
• Autour du monde avec le pilote rouge (1944)
• Le voyage dans le temps (1944–45)
• L'enlèvement de Spip (1945)
• La jeep de Fantasio (1945–46)
• Fantasio et le Fantôme (1946)

Background

These stories are considered Jijé's 4th-9th Spirou stories, independent of the work when he functioned as a collaborator on the earliest work by Rob-Vel.

This collection is not regarded among the regular series as it had limited publication, and some of the original plates are thought to be lost.

Two of the stories, La jeep de Fantasio and Fantasio et le Fantôme were later published in the "hors-séries" albums, HS2 Radar le robot and HS4 Fantasio et le fantôme et 4 autres aventures.

Sources

• Joseph Gilain (Jijé) publications in Spirou BDoubliées (in French)
• Les Mémoires de Spirou, Thierry Martens, Jean-Paul Tibéri, Dupuis, 1989. p. 160

References

External links

• Spirou official site album index (in French)