The Daily Star
The Daily Star ( French original title: Le Daily Star ) is a comic book from the Lucky Luke series, which was drawn by Morris and written by Xavier Fauche and Jean Léturgie . According to the Ehapa-Verlag (or at the beginning: Delta-Verlag from Ehapa and Dargaud ), Der Daily Star is the 45th volume in the series. Furthermore, the comic was previously published in Spirou in 1984 and in the same year as the 22nd volume by Dargaud (53rd volume in total) in France.
This band was filmed for the cartoon series Lucky Luke .
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The journalist Horace P. Greeley, who publishes the Daily Star , keeps running into trouble because he prints unpleasant truths. So his printing press is sunk in a river. Lucky Luke becomes aware of him and decides to support him. When they arrive in Dead End City after a few incidents, Greeley purchases a former barn for his Daily Star newspaper and the printing press . At first he is unsuccessful because he does not address the topics that interest the readers, which he changes on advice from Lucky Luke. However, this openness also creates enemies such as the saloon owner who threatens Greeley with his rifle because he had reported about adulterated drinks. Lucky Luke protects him from the bartender and supports him in the future with the publication of the newspaper. Through further scandal reports, Greeley also makes the grocer and the undertaker an enemy. Nevertheless, newspaper sales are increasing.
The three of the Daily Star reviled are supported by Greeley's paper supplier Jack, who burns the deliveries. As this happens several times, Lucky Luke rides towards Jack, catching him red-handed and locking him up. However, Jack escapes from prison by arson. The four also try to boycott the paint delivery, whereupon the newspaper paint is made from coffee beans. The newspaper enemies also fail to incite the residents of the city against the newspaper, which is why they found their own newspaper, the Epitaph (German: grave inscription). By chance they notice a counterfeit printer that they force to work for their newspaper. But even if the epitaph was published free of charge, the epitaph can only achieve short-term successes, so that the new newspaper publishers destroy Greeley's printing press, whereupon Greeley's newsboy nonsense recites the articles from memory. While Greeley repairs the press, Nonsense is kidnapped. The epitaph announces that the Daily Telegraph will be blown up, which is why Lucky Luke can thwart the plan and has Jack locked up again with some sticks of dynamite. Jack makes a confession so that Lucky Luke can arrest the other four epitaph editors.
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In contrast to the historical Horace Greeley , Horace P. Greeley was born on April 30, 1846, over 35 years later, according to the information from the comic. He is also the founder of the New York Tribune in comics . He then sends Henry Morton Stanley to search for David Livingstone , whom he also finds, whereupon the historical phrase "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" ("Doctor Livingstone, I assume") is quoted.
Greeley says of Lucky Luke that he is “more famous than Samuel Bowles” (page 6), who actually worked for the springfield player The Republican (now part of Advance Publications ).
The phrase "The freedom of the press is inviolable" is mentioned several times. Among other things, Greeley also prints a job offer for the competing newspaper, as he is against censorship.
The newsboy nonsense pretends to be Jack London towards the end and plans to become "a really great journalist". Jack London really was a newspaper boy once. Lucky Luke meets Jack London again in the band Am Klondike .
Greeley also meets William Frederick Cody, aka Buffalo Bill, before he even comes to Dead End City.