Dick Digger's gold mine
The Dick Digger Goldmine ( French original title: La Mine d'or de Dick Digger ) is a comic book album from the Lucky Luke series, which was drawn and written by Morris .
In Belgium, the stories on the album were first published in 1947 in the Belgian-French comic magazine Spirou , and in 1949 it was published by Dupuis as the first volume in the Lucky Luke series . However, Arizona was published by Dick Digger before The Goldmine in 1880 . In Germany the album was published as Volume 1 of the Lucky Luke Classics in 1990.
The volume consists of the two stories Die Goldmine von Dick Digger (original title: La Mine d'or de Dick Digger ) and the double (original title: Le sosie de Lucky Luke ).
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Dick Digger's gold mine
In this story, Lucky Luke meets the gold prospector Dick Digger, an old friend. He wants to register his immediately previously found gold deposit in Nugget City. He keeps the map on which the gold deposits are drawn in an alcohol bottle, and he also carries some gold nuggets with him. Since he celebrates his find very loudly in a saloon , two bandits notice him, who later attack him in his saloon room and steal his gold and the card. Thereupon they are pursued by Lucky Luke, who finally catches the bandits.
The lookalike
Lucky Luke visits a city where people are scared of him because he looks a lot like the criminal Mad Jim. However, he is in prison and is about to be hanged . When two accomplices of Mad Jim want to free him, they knock Lucky Luke unconscious and put him in the cell instead of Mad Jim. Since there is no doubt about his guilt, he has to flee and hunt down the criminals himself.
Remarks
In the French version of the second comic, Lucky Luke kills his doppelganger, which is weakened in the German translation ("I just shot him!").
The drawing style of the comics was still very different from the later publications, but he was already wearing his usual clothes. The drawing style of the two comics is also very different, as Morris was still developing his cowboy.
The volume was published before Morris' five-year stay in the USA.
Jolly Jumper, Lucky Luke's horse, does not yet have a speaking role in this volume.