Cori, the cabin boy
Cori, the cabin boy (original title: Cori le moussaillon ) is a Franco-Belgian comic series by Bob de Moor that was published between 1951 and 1993 .
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The adventures of the Dutch cabin boy and orphan Cori are embedded in the events of the Dutch Golden Age in the 16th and 17th centuries. Cori meets historical personalities like Piet Heyn , Pieter van der Does , Joris van Spielbergen and Willem Janszoon and comes across traces of the discoverer Willem Barents . The story begins with the rescue of the little boy by the Dutch on board a hijacked Spanish ship, leads through adventures in the Dutch East Indies , America, Europe and the northern Arctic Ocean and ends with the reunion with his father, who was believed to be dead, in North Africa.
Volume 1: Under the flag of the company
Cori is rescued by Dutchmen on board a Spanish sailing ship and joins the Dutch East India Company under the care of Willem Janszoon . He returns to Holland and accompanies Janszoon on an expedition to the Dutch East Indies, where he is shot and killed by the fictional character Jasper Hebbenal off Madagascar during a mutiny. The loyal part of the crew is abandoned on an island, but is able to escape with a raft on a Portuguese ship floating in the sea. After arriving in Ambon , Cori accompanies Jan Carstenz on a voyage of discovery to New Guinea, where they sail along the coast of Australia. There, after fighting with the natives, the team comes across a pirate treasure that Hebbenal is looking for. Back in Holland, Cori joins Piet Heyn's expedition to America, where Heyn's fleet captures several ships off the Brazilian coast, but the bombardment of the port of Salvador has to end without result. After another stay in Holland and a visit to the injured Carstenz, Cori sets out again for America with Heyn, who is to lead an expedition against the Spanish Navy on behalf of the Dutch West India Company . After Cori escapes a Spanish captivity, he experiences how the Dutch can capture the Spanish silver fleet near the Cuban Havana almost without a fight.
Volume 2: The Invincible Armada, Part 1: The Queen's Spies
Together with Harm, a loyal friend, Cori is used as a spy by Admiral Van der Does in Cadiz to find out more about the landing of the Spanish Armada in England. With the help of the Dutchman Victor can escape the city with documents on details of the invasion, but are separated. Cori succeeds in handing the documents over to Francis Drake and thus to warn Queen Elizabeth I of England . The injured Harm arrives unexpectedly through a good-natured high nobleman in El Escorial , Philip II's seat of government and thus the center of Spanish power.
Volume 3: The Invincible Armada, Part 2: The Dragons of the Seas
While Harm leaves Lisbon with the Armada as servant of his helper and sails north, Cori is on board Van der Does' ship after a short stay in Holland and is supposed to deliver another message to Francis Drake. He informs the English about the progress of the Armada and sails on the Revenge into the sea battle at Gravelines . Harm is exposed as a Dutch spy, but escapes the rope and is saved as a galley convict together with Victor, whom he happens to meet again, in the battle of Cori. Together they watch the fall of the Armada.
Volume 4: Expedition of the Cursed
Working on a whaling ship finally leads Cori, Harm and the “general”, whom they met on their escape from Cadiz, to the icy north. While they are exposed to storms, pack ice and other dangers, the pilot Gerrit drives the crew crazy with his ominous prophecies. The ship got stuck in the ice in front of an island and the crew found the hut of Baerentz's crew, who had previously also spent the winter on Novaya Zemlya . During a foray, Cori finds Gerrit in a cave with treasures from a past kingdom, together with Baerentz's logbook. In it he learns that Gerrit took part in Baerentz's expedition, killed three men for the treasure and lost his mind there.
Volume 5: Dali Capitan
A Dutch ship with Cori and Harm on board is sailing towards Algiers in the Mediterranean to deliver a message and money to the Beylerbey when it is attacked and boarded. The two are thrown into a dungeon from which they are rescued by the mysterious Muslim corsair Dali Capitan. They then have to help him get a hijacked European ship back on the road. After a shipwreck, a rescue by the Bey and after Dali Capitan eliminated his adversary Dragut, Cori and Harm can finally deliver the message to the Beylerbey. At the end it turns out that Dali is Capitan Cori's father, who was believed to be dead.
background
Around 1950 Bob de Moor was approached by Lombard for a story that might be of interest to the Flemish and Dutch markets. This gave the impetus to "Cori" and, together with de Moors' fascination for sailing ships, was the reason that he chose the heyday of Holland in the 17th century as the background for his story. Because of his increasingly extensive work in the Hergé studio from 1951, where he increasingly became the right-hand man of the Tim inventor Hergé , he only continued his series when he received an offer from Casterman in 1976 to publish his first story as an album. The long break led to a reorientation, which is also reflected in the incompatible dating of the first and second story: the first takes place between 1602 and 1626, the second takes place around 1588 at the time of the Spanish Armada. Cori is about the same age in both stories.
Publication history
The series appeared between 1951 and 1952 in the Belgian and from 1952 to 1978 in the French edition of Tintin . The first album came out in 1976 on Distri BD. For the album edition, which Casterman began in 1978, the first episode was reworked and shortened to 46 pages. In the fifth story, the last six pages were drawn by Bob de Moor's sons Johan and Stephan and published posthumously in 1993. Feest published the first four stories in the German-speaking area. In 2013, BD Must in Brussels published the first German complete edition, in which the first volume comprises the original 62 pages and the fifth volume "Dali Capitan" appears in German for the first time.
Stories
- La compagnie des Grandes Indes (The Gold Island / Under the flag of the company) (1951–1952, 62 pages)
- L'invincible armada (The Invincible Armada, Parts 1 and 2) (1977–1978, 92 pages)
- L'expédition maudite (Expedition of the Cursed) (1987, 46 pages)
- Dali Capitan (Dali Capitan) (1993, 46 pages)
Web links
- Cori le moussaillon on bdtheque.com (French)
- Cori le moussaillon on lejournaldetintin.free.fr (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Complete edition of "Cori, the ship's boy" will be published in autumn. Retrieved December 7, 2014 .
- ↑ Cori le moussaillon in Tintin (Belgium) on bdoubliees.com (French)
- ↑ Cori le moussaillon in Tintin (France) on bdoubliees.com (French)
- ↑ Cori le moussaillon on bedetheque.com (French)
- ↑ Cori, the ship's boy (1987–1991) at Feest on comicguide.de
- ^ Complete edition of "Cori, the ship's boy" will be published in autumn. Retrieved December 7, 2014 .