The rice battle

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The rice battle (French: La Bataille du riz ) is an album from the Lucky Luke comic series . It was drawn by Morris and written by René Goscinny .

The volume is a collection of short stories first published in 1968 and 1969 in the Super Pocket Pilote paperback series . The stories have been enlarged for the album.

content

  • Every beginning is difficult : A young greenhorn wants to become a famous desperado, when he tries to mess with Lucky Luke, he is kicked out of the saloon.
  • For the love of music : Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper help a saloon owner to get his long-awaited mechanical piano safe to his town.
  • Stroll through the city : Lucky Luke fights a cattle thief and visits numerous institutions of the city in this way. Finally, the cattle thief can be turned over to prison.
  • The rice battle : In the town of Nothing Gulch, two Chinese restaurant owners fight for supremacy. When the whole place is finally in turmoil, the two Chinese decide to run a restaurant together. However, a new competitor now appears: a Japanese.

publication

The stories were first published in Super Pocket Pilote , the paperback series of Pilote magazine , in 1968 and 1969 . In 1972 there was a free album for customers of the Total petrol station chain.

In Germany, the stories appeared in 1973 in the Zack Parade paperback series , in 1983 in the small-format 16/22 anthology Nothing goes without Lucky Luke at Carlsen, and in 2005 as a large-format album at Egmont Ehapa Media as volume 78.

The story The rice battle was filmed in 1991 for the Lucky Luke animated series.

Individual evidence

  1. La Bataille du riz at bedetheque.com
  2. The rice battle with German Comic Guide