15 Facts About Lucky Luke

1.

Lucky Luke is a Western bande dessinee series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,651
2.

Lucky Luke is pitted against various villains, either fictional or inspired by American history or folklore.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,652
3.

Lucky Luke is one of the best-known and best-selling comics series in Europe.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,653
4.

Lucky Luke was the series writer during what is considered its golden age, starting with the story "Des rails sur la Prairie, " published on 25 August 1955 in Spirou, until his death in 1977 .

FactSnippet No. 1,372,654
5.

Lucky Luke comics have been translated into: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese and Welsh.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,655
6.

Lucky Luke meets many historical Western figures such as Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid, Judge Roy Bean and Jesse James's gang, and takes part in events such as the guarding of Wells Fargo stagecoaches, the Pony Express, the building of the First Transcontinental Telegraph, the Rush into the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma, and a tour by French actress Sarah Bernhardt.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,656
7.

For example, in the album Daily Star, Lucky Luke meets a young Horace Greeley, prior to his moving to New York in 1831.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,657
8.

Judge Roy Bean, who was appointed judge in 1882, appears in another album, and in another album yet, Lucky Luke takes part in the 1892 Coffeyville shootout against the Dalton gang.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,658
9.

Except in the first few stories, where he shoots and kills Mad Jim and the old Dalton brothers gang in Coffeyville, Lucky Luke is never seen to kill anyone, preferring to disarm people by simply shooting weapons out of their hands.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,659
10.

Second spin-off series called Kid Lucky Luke was designed in 1995, aimed at attracting a younger readership.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,660
11.

Apart from the collections mentioned below, Lucky Luke comics were published in British comic book magazines such as Film Fun Comic or Giggle .

FactSnippet No. 1,372,661
12.

In 2019 Cinebook began releasing a hardcover collection of Lucky Luke, published in chronological order featuring three to four original albums per volume together with a vast amount of extras included, titled Lucky Luke - The Complete Collection.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,662
13.

In 1983, Hanna-Barbera Productions, France 3, Gaumont Film Company, Extrafilm Berlin and Morris collaborated to release the animated TV series Lucky Luke which contained 26 episodes, based on original album stories.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,663
14.

Lucky Luke game was developed for mobile phones by The Mighty Troglodytes.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,664
15.

Lucky Luke: Go West was released in Europe for the PC, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS in the end of 2007.

FactSnippet No. 1,372,665