Travelling to the northern state of Wisconsin, Lucky Luke finds a population deeply depressed by a beer shortage that has caused all saloons in the area to close. Desperate, the inhabitants of New München beg Luke to talk to the brewers of Milwaukee. But the cause of the shortage is a strike, and the cowboy is more used to chasing outlaws in the Great Plains than to forcing negotiations between unions and bosses in a city where the first skyscrapers are already sprouting …
Lucky Luke enters a small town to drop off at the sheriff’s office a young man who tried to steal Jolly Jumper. A few miles down the road, in the middle of nowhere, he suddenly finds himself threatened … by a little girl! Young Rose and her brother are currently alone in their cabin after the mysterious disappearance of their parents. Luke will have to investigate, but also take care of two particularly wild and undisciplined children!
Arriving in Cattle Gulch, Lucky Luke runs into an unexpected scene:
an apparent crackpot called Ovid Byrde is about to get lynched. The
man's revolutionary opinions - animal welfare and the sanctity of
life - aren't particularly well-received in this town full of
ranchers and cowboys! After Luke intervenes, though, the locals
simply ignore Byrde ... until he suddenly finds gold, and a pack of
unscrupulous bandits take advantage of the poor idealist to establish
a vegetarian dictatorship!
The Old West was full of itchy trigger fingers, but also had its
share of hemp necktie enthusiasts. Lucky Luke is not a fan of such
summary justice, and when he interrupts an improvised hanging with no
less than three ropes for a single man, he runs afoul of an
unpleasant individual with a knack for manipulating bored and drunk
crowds ... Seven short stories by Goscinny and his friends and illustrated by Morris himself - pure Lucky Luke concentrate!
The 144 pages of this fourth volume of the `Complete Collection'
contains three full titles. While The Bluefeet are Coming! was penned
by Morris himself, Lucky Luke vs Joss Jamon and The Dalton Cousins
are the results of the legendary partnership between Morris and
Goscinny, and the genius writer's talent shines through even in the
team's early efforts - which here include the first appearance of those who would soon become the most infamous (and stupidest) bandits
in the Old West! Goscinny and the Daltons in superb hardback format -
an unmistakable volume.
Covering the years 1957 to 1959, this fifth volume of the Complete
Collection brings together in its 144 pages three volumes that truly
open the golden age of the Morris-Goscinny team. In The Judge, the
new writer adopts the tradition of introducing historical characters
- here Judge Roy Bean. As for The Oklahoma Land Rush, it's based on
historical events, another future tradition of the series. Finally, The Daltons' Escape sees the return of the Dalton cousins, and the
beginning of a long and distinguished career as recurring villains.
Comic history being written, now in hardback format!
Lucky Luke is contacted by a rich individual with an unusual request:
he wants to hire the Lonesome Cowboy to escort his stepdaughter
Gisella on a trip across the Wild West. He wants her to see for
himself the hard life of settlers and frontiersmen at least once
before she settles into a comfortable married life. Luke arranges a
few fake, safe incidents to entertain the young woman, but she's no shrinking violet, and tends to charge headlong into trouble ...
Passing through New Orleans, Lucky Luke stumbles upon a heated
argument between two steamboat captains. The argument soon turns into
a wager: whichever boat reaches Minneapolis first after steaming up
the Mississippi will win the exclusive rights to the route. Captain
Barstow quickly invites Luke to travel on his Daisy Belle, fearing
that his opponent will cheat. And while he's not wrong, the biggest
danger to both boats remains Old Man River himself ...
Once again, Luke is called to the penitentiary, though for once the
Daltons haven't escaped. They have, however, just learned that their
cousin Emmett, last survivor of the original Dalton gang, has a son -
and that Averell was chosen as his godfather! Now Lucky Luke has to
accompany the dumbest bandits in the West to the young boy's house,
as Averell has been temporarily entrusted with his education. A job that his brothers see as an excellent opportunity to get rich ...
Big surprise for the Lonesome Cowboy: a rich widow and admirer of his
exploits has bequeathed him a 250 acre cotton plantation in
Louisiana! Thrust into the role of a rich landowner, welcomed as one
by his white neighbours, he will have to fight to gain the trust of
his terrified black employees and split his heritage among them. A
goal towards which he'll receive help from the local Cajun community, and from ... the Daltons!
Kid Luck, still travelling with Old Timer, arrives in Mushroom City.
After months in the wild, they're both glad to find a place where
they can have some fun! While the old gold miner has every intention
to enjoy himself, though, he immediately sends Luke ... straight to
school! A horrible sentence for the young cowboy-in-the-making, who
is about to meet a quartet of already nasty little brats, and a pistolero with somewhat ... flexible morals!
When a former convict at the penitentiary where Rin Tin Can `works'
passes away, he leaves his entire fortune to ... the stupidest dog in
the West! The inheritance includes multiple buildings in Virginia
City, including most of Chinatown, which isn't to everyone's taste.
Even worse, the will states that if anything should happen to Rin Tin
Can, everything would then pass onto ... Joe Dalton. Following the inevitable escape of the four Daltons, Lucky Luke will have to
protect the canine millionaire!
Gold has been found in the Klondike, a remote region in the Canadian
far north! Jasper, the manservant of `Tenderfoot' Waldo, went to try
his luck ... and vanished. Worried about his man, Waldo calls upon his
old friend Lucky Luke. The two men will have to make the dangerous
trip to the Klondike, only to face all those who, in that desolate,
inhospitable land, will stop at nothing in order to fleece their fellow man.
This third volume in the collection brings us to the very edge of
absolute greatness, with two later, far more mature solo outings -
Doc Doxey's Elixir (including Manhunt) and Phil Wire (including Lucky
Luke and Pill) were first published in 1955 and 1956, and already
Luke was much closer to the cowboy that we now have in mind -
followed by Rails on the Prairie, the first collaboration between Morris and Goscinny, that would usher in 30 years of a legendary
collaboration. These stories are prefaced by a staggering 46 pages of
extra material - biographies, essays, interviews, illustrations -
that will delight every fan.
After the heavily cartoon- and slapstick cinema-inspired first
adventures, Morris turned towards the tradition of Westerns to flesh
out his hero's world. In Under a Western Sky, Lucky Luke versus Pat
Poker and Outlaws there is a lot of Hollywood and John Ford, and
while Luke hasn't quite settled into his current look, he's certainly
closer to the phlegmatic cowboy we know and love. Outlaws also marks the first appearance of the Daltons - the historical Dalton brothers
here, who will later return as their decidedly stupider cousins.
Throw in 48 pages of extra material on Morris's experience in the
United States, and this is a book you won't want to miss.
At last Lucky Luke is getting a hardback collected edition, with the
first adventures of the Lonesome Cowboy. After 70 years of life and
almost 70 translated volumes, it was high time English-speaking
readers were offered a hardback collected edition. This first volume
contains the first seven adventures of Lucky Luke, previously
published as volumes Arizona, Rodeo and Dick Digger's Gold Mine, and
offers an unrivalled insight into the evolution of the character in
terms of design as well as personality. The extras available make up
a whooping 48 pages of illustrations, photographs, biographies,
essays and anecdotes on Morris and the origins of Luke. A must read
for any true fan of this legend of the West!
é Returned to their penitentiary by Lucky Luke for the umpteenth time, the Daltons meet a troubling character: Dunkle, a self-proclaimed prophet fond of fiery speeches. His continual preaching eventually converts the ever hapless Averell. Soon, all five escape together and find refuge in a friendly, welcoming community, where they sow chaos and discord each in their own way - unaware that Lucky Luke is already tracking them ...
Marcel Dalton is the Dalton Brothers' Swiss uncle. He is not only honest, but a banker to boot. Having purchased a small bank in the US, he decides to hire his nephews to force them to make a honest living. Although he's assisted by Lucky Luke, they have their work cut out for them. Especially since - as if the ingrained instincts of the four dumbest bandits in the West weren't enough - there's also the small matter of the competition: a very unscrupulous banker ...
While dragging the Daltons back to a new prison after their umpteenth escape, Luke comes across a French sculptor, Bartholdi, who's touring the West with a strange sculpture: a colossal hand holding a torch. In fact, it's part of the now famous Statue of Liberty, and Bartholdi is raising funds towards its construction and transport from France. It's not long before our cowboy is recruited by his government to escort Lady Liberty ... from Paris!
Everyone's heard of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: the most famous shootout of the Old West, between the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday on the side of law and order, and the Clanton brothers and their gang. A legend told many times in books and films, in sometimes contradictory versions... Fortunately, here is the definitive version at last, restoring the unvarnished truth of what is another triumph of ... Lucky Luke!
We all know Lucky Luke, the man who shoots faster than his own shadow. But even he was once a child, and back then he was already having grand adventures in the Old West! The young boy is travelling with an old, grumpy, alcoholic prospector in search of gold, when a conflict with the local Indian tribe leads to kidnapping - and he now finds himself the adopted son of a nagging native mother!
In 1874, President Grant authorises the construction of a bridge over
the Mississippi. Until then, passage between St. Louis and East St.
Louis was only possible on ferries. But the ferry company is owned by
two brothers who have been getting rich by forcing passengers to wait
in the hotels and restaurants they own on both sides of the river.
The two crooks are doing everything in their power to prevent the bridge from being built - until Lucky Luke arrives, of course...
Arriving at the town of Fort Smith with a prisoner, Lucky Luke is
surprised to find a place in turmoil and a thoroughly annoyed
sheriff. Belle Starr, a rich ranch owner, keeps posting bail for
every bandit arrested in town, with the complicity of a corrupt
judge, before recruiting them in her own gang and carrying out
various attacks and robberies. Unfortunately, she is also such a pillar of the community that no one believes she could possibly be
guilty...
When an old cowboy friend asks Luke to escort his family, freshly arrived from Poland, to their new home in the West, our lonesome hero has no idea what sort of difficulties to expect. If the Sterns are brave and resolute, they are also ignorant of American ways - and bring with them a multitude of baffling customs. And as if that wasn't enough, the extremely valuable Torah that travels with them has caught the eyes of some unsavoury characters...
