Lucky Luke

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Lucky Luke is a Western comic album series created by Belgian cartoonist, Maurice De Bevere, best known by the pen name Morris, in 1946. Morris drew the series and wrote some of the early adventures while his brother, Louis, wrote and co-wrote some other ones until 1955, after which he started collaborating with French writer René Goscinny. Their partnership lasted until Goscinny's death in 1977. Afterwards, Morris collaborated with several other writers until his own death in 2001. Since Morris's death, French artist Achdé has drawn the series, scripted by several successive writers. The series takes place in the American Old West, and starring the titular Lucky Luke, a street-smart gunslinger known as the "man who shoots faster than his shadow", and his intelligent horse Jolly Jumper. Lucky Luke is pitted against various villains, either fictional or inspired by American history or folklore. The most famous of these are the Dalton Brothers, loosely based on the Dalton Gang of the early...

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