Title: LUCKY LUKE Volume 1: Who's Mr. Joesph?
Manufacturer: Magnum Video
Date: 1995
Title: LUCKY LUKE Volume 5: Caffe Ole!
Manufacturer: Magnum Video
Date: 1995
Lucky Luke is a
Belgian comics series created by Belgian
cartoonist Maurice De Bevere, better known as
Morris, and for one period written by
René Goscinny. Set in the
American Old West, it stars the
titular character, Lucky Luke, the
cowboy known to "shoot faster than his shadow".
Along with
The Adventures of Tintin and
Asterix,
Lucky Luke is one of the most popular and best-selling comic-book series in
continental Europe.
About half of the series' adventures have been translated into
English. Lucky Luke comics have been translated into 23 languages, including many European languages, some African and Asian languages.
Lucky Luke in other media
Animation
Four theatrical animated films were created. In 1990,
Disney released one of them,
The Ballad of the Daltons, on VHS. Three of the movies were part of a
trilogy. The first of the films was titled
Daisy Town (1971), followed by
La Ballade des Dalton (1978) and finished by
Les Dalton en cavale (1983), meaning
The Daltons on the Loose in English. In addition to the theatrical animated movies, there was also an animated
Lucky Luke television series: In 1983,
Hanna-Barbera studios and Morris released 26 episodes, and in 1991, 26 more episodes were released. In 2001,
Xilam produced a new series of 52 episodes known as
Les Nouvelles aventures de Lucky Luke (
Lucky Luke's New Adventures) currently being broadcast on
Cinemoi. It is now available on 8 DVDs with French and English audio tracks. This series also featured colonel
Custer, in this incarnation an Indian-hater and a dwarf.
Xilam recently produced a theatrical animated film (the fourth film),
Tous à l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke (Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure), which was released in France on December 5, 2007.
- Television
- Hanna-Barbera Lucky Luke (1983)
- Xilam Les Adventures De Lucky Luke (2001)
- Xilam Rantanplan (2008)
- Xilam Les Dalton (2010)
Live-action film and Live-action television
In 1991, two live-action films (
Lucky Luke and
Lucky Luke 2) and in 1992 a live-action television series (
The Adventures of Lucky Luke) starring
Terence Hill as Lucky Luke were produced.
In 2004, the film
Les Dalton featured
Til Schweiger as Lucky Luke.
In 2009,
Yves Marmion and UGC (the producers of
Les Dalton) produced the film
Lucky Luke starring French actor
Jean Dujardin as the gunslinger. The film was released on October 21, 2009 in Europe.
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