Calamity Jane (comic)
Calamity Jane is a comic book from the Lucky Luke series that was drawn by Morris and written by René Goscinny . According to the Ehapa-Verlag (or at the beginning: Delta-Verlag from Ehapa and Dargaud ) this volume is the 22nd in the series. Before that, the comic was published by Kauka and Yps as a sequel story or in Zack by Koralle-Verlag , but the comic was sometimes given different names.
The comic was originally published in 1965 in the Belgian-French comic magazine Spirou and in 1967 as the 30th volume by Dupuis in Belgium.
This band was filmed for the Lucky Luke cartoon series .
content
Lucky Luke is surprised by Apaches while bathing , but Calamity Jane drives them away . Lucky Luke wants to treat her politely, which Calamity Jane doesn't want (that's how Luke always sails her, but she uses her name). Then she tells him her life story and Luke tells her that he should investigate the sale of weapons to the Apaches in the city of El Plomo, which is why the two ride there. In the saloon , Calamity Jane is not particularly welcome as a woman, which is why the saloon owner August Oyster initially does not want to rent a room; however, he can be convinced by her rifle. Luke, however, moves into a sheriff's cell. After a while, Calamity Jane is no longer unpopular with the saloon visitors, but the saloon owner wants her and Luke to disappear from town. She offers him to buy the saloon. Oyster refuses, so Calamity Jane suggests arm wrestling; if she wins, she gets the saloon, otherwise she has to leave town. Oyster appoints Baby Sam as his much stronger-looking substitute, but who loses. Calamity Jane becomes the new owner of the saloon and sets up a small table as a "tea room for women". Oyster is in trouble because he is involved in the arms trade and awaits a delivery of whiskey and arms. Calamity Jane bakes cookies for her tea room, but they are apparently inedible. Baby Sam uses this opportunity and takes the saloon under fire with a group of other gunmen, but Luke and Calamity Jane drive them away again.
Oyster's Indian contractors put pressure on him because an arms shipment is overdue. So Baby Sam tries to set fire to the saloon, which Lucky Luke prevents. However, the saloon still catches fire from baking Calamitys biscuits, but the damage is minor. Lucky Luke thinks that Oyster has had weapons delivered in addition to whiskey and examines the saloon, but initially only finds the drinks and a piece of earth from a little wood by the river. Oyster meanwhile raises the mood against Calamity Jane at the "League for Virtue and Customs in El Plomo", Calamity Jane is only allowed to stay if she passes the league's entrance examination. Luke gets her the behavior teacher Robert Gainsborough. Luke returns to the grove by the river and finds an angler there who tells him about an old mine. From there, Lucky Luke finds both the weapons and access to the saloon. The Apaches want to get the weapons from Oyster the next night, otherwise they threaten a raid on the city, so they want to get the weapons from the basement of the saloon, where Lucky Luke takes them prisoner. Calamity Jane still wants to be included in the league. When the Apaches attack, Lucky Luke and Calamity Jane drive them away, and after the attack, she is actually accepted into the league. Nevertheless, she and Lucky Luke leave town again.
Remarks
Calamity Jane's real name, Martha Jane Cannary, and her place of birth Princeton, Missouri, are given correctly, with only "around 1850" being given as the date of birth. As in reality, she tells Lucky Luke about her marriage to Wild Bill Hickok , whose existence is not certain. The sheet of Hickok on his death is also mentioned ( Dead Man's Hand ).
Calamity Jane appears in several Lucky Luke comics, including The Hunt for the Phantom , The Daltons in the Snare and briefly in Lucky Luke against Joss Jamon , where she looks different and is rated as Ganovin.
The place Luke and Calamity Jane go to is called El Plomo , this is the name of a Chilean mountain.
The etiquette teacher is a caricature by British actor David Niven . A running gag are Calamity Janes cookies, which are unpopular with everyone.
filming
The album was filmed in 1983 for the first season of the Lucky Luke animated series .
Since this series was mainly aimed at children, only the rough plot structure was used for the film adaptation and the dialog joke was dispensed with. In addition, they renounced the violence of the comics, the spitting and cursing of calamity, which is a kind of running gag in the comic, cigarettes or chewing tobacco and any alcohol consumption. Another important difference is that the weapons here are not delivered to Indians, but to bandits. The film version also shows the prison dog Rantanplan , who does not appear in the comic and usually only appears in connection with the Daltons .