Le nid des Marsupilamis

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publisher=Dupuis
date=1960
series="Spirou et Fantasio"
origlanguage=French
origpublication="Le Journal de Spirou"
origissues= #969 - #991 #1034 - #1045
origdate=1956 - 1957, 1958
origisbn= 2-8001-0014-1
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writers=Franquin
artists=Franquin with Jidéhem
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previssue= "Le gorille a bonne mine", 1959
nextissue= "Le voyageur du Mésozoïque", 1960

"Le nid des Marsupilamis", written and drawn by Franquin, is the twelfth album of the "Spirou et Fantasio" series. The title story, and another, "La foire aux gangsters", were serialised in "Spirou", before the release in a hardcover album in 1960.

tory

In "The Nest of the Marsupilamis", Seccotine invites Spirou and Fantasio to a screening of her new documentary film, revealing what she has been doing since last seen in Palombia (in "Le dictateur et le champignon"). The film follows a Marsupilami in the wild, as he discovers and courts a mate, and they form a family in need of care and protection.

In "The Gangsters' Fair", Spirou and Fantasio are unexpectedly assaulted by a small martial arts-expert, Soto Kiki, who wants to train them in judo in order to act as bodyguards for the European visit of oil tycoon John P. Nut, a man with gangster enemies. All changes as the gangsters attempt to assassinate Soto Kiki, and kidnap the millionaire's infant son.

Background

Since the stories of this album were produced some time apart, the protagonists abruptly shift from driving their "Turbotraction:Turbot-Rhino I" in the first story, and the "Turbot 2" in the second.

Gaston Lagaffe features in his third Spirou adventure cameo in "La foire aux gangsters". The version of this album differs slightly from the one serialised in "Spirou", in that a final half-page has been removed, leaving the quite brutal epilogue of Soto Kiki's revenge untold.

Franquin created "Le nid des Marsupilamis" - which features extensive parenting sequences - while his wife Liliane expected their first child.cite web | last =franquin.com | title =Une vie - 1956 | url =http://www.franquin.com/bio/1956.php |language=French]

References

* [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/auteurs2/franquin.htm Franquin publications in "Spirou"] BDoubliées fr_icon

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.spirou.com/spirou/albums.shtml Spirou official site album index] fr_icon
* [http://www.franquin.com/spirou_fantasio/albums_spirou.php Franquin site album index] fr_icon
* [http://www.inedispirou.kalikoba.com/1958-la-foire-aux-gangsters-fin-inedite-franquin-vt49.html Final page of "La foire aux gangsters"] on InediSpirou fr_icon