The blue panthers
| Comic | |
|---|---|
| title | Six on a long journey The blue panthers The beaver patrol |
| Original title | La Patrouille des Castors |
 | |
| country | Belgium |
| author |
Jean-Michel Charlier MiTacq Marc Wasterlain |
| Illustrator | MiTacq |
| publishing company | Dupuis |
| magazine | Spirou |
| First publication | 1954-1993 |
The blue panther is the best-known German title in the Franco-Belgian comic series La Patrouille des Castors (Die Biber-Patrouille ) , published between 1954 and 1993 .
action
A group of boy scouts has exciting adventures at their tent camps. The places of action are initially Belgium and France. Later travels also take her to distant areas such as India, Africa or Asia. The blue panthers consist of five brave boys whose journey names are assigned certain character traits.
- Mustang: the boss who always keeps a clear head
- Hangover: the cunning daredevil who over time becomes the second leader
- Falke: the astute thinker
- Ox: the fat, lazy, funny and clumsy contemporary
- Mosquito: the youngest, the baby boy
background
MiTacq developed the series based on a design by Jean-Jacques Schellens. After Dupuis had accepted the idea, Georges Troisfontaines advised him to use the proven author Jean-Michel Charlier . The scout group originally consisted of six members. Charlier left out the boy with the nickname Rabbit from the third episode. In Le trophée de Rochecombe , MiTacq was supported on eight pages (4–11) by Eddy Paape . The blue uniform in L'autobus hanté was replaced by a red shirt and brown trousers in 1965, in line with the reformed dress code of the Belgian scouting body from the previous year. Between 1967 and 1971 there was an interruption because Charlier could no longer deliver stories due to lack of time. Charlier left the series in 1979 after 22 albums. MiTacq carried it on mostly alone until his death. The texts for Le calvaire du mort pendu and Torrents sur Mésin were written by Marc Wasterlain .
Publications
The series appeared in Spirou magazine between 1954 and 1993 and was published by Dupuis in single albums and later collected in the Tout MiTacq series. Another complete edition, expanded to include numerous illustrations and information, started Dupuis in 2011. The series appeared for the first time in German between 1958 and 1961 in The serene Fridolin , still under the title Six on a large journey . Bastei published the 22 stories written by Jean-Michel Charlier in 1980 and 1981 as an independent series and renamed the series at random to Blue Panthers (subtitle: "Adventure of the Conspiratorial Five"). Salleck Publications has been publishing the complete edition published by Dupuis from 2011 under the true-to-original title Die Biber-Patrouille in German since 2018 .
Albums
| No. | Original French title (year of first publication in Spirou ) |
German first publication as "Six on a large journey" in Der hehre Fridolin (Semrau) 1958–1961 issue no. |
"The blue panthers" Bastei-Verlag 1980/81 |
"Die Biber-Patrouille" complete edition with Salleck Publications since 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le mystère de Groisbos (1954/55) 44 pages | The secret of Tiefenwald (No. 1 - 7) | The secret of the forbidden ruin | The secret of Grosbois (vol. 1) |
| 2 | Le disparu de Ker-Aven (1955/56) 44 pages | The missing boy scout as (No. 8 13) | The pirate coast | The disappeared from Ker-Aven (vol. 1) |
| 3 | L'inconnu de la villa mystère (1956) 44 pages | The mysterious country house (No. 14 - 18) | A traitor is wrong | The traitor of the Villa Mystère (vol. 1) |
| 4th | Sur la piste de Mowgli (1956/57) 44 pages | The Enigmatic Trail (No. 19-23) | The lord of the jungle | In the footsteps of Mowgli (vol. 1) |
| 5 | La bouteille à la mer (1957) 44 pages | The message in a bottle (No. 24 - 29) | The prisoners of the Arctic Ocean | The message in a bottle (vol. 2) |
| 6th | Le trophée de Rochecombe (1958) 44 pages | A puzzling find (nos. 52 - 54) | Rescue from the flame hell | The Rochecombe Trophy (Vol. 2) |
| 7th | Le secret des monts tabou (1959) 44 pages | - | The curse of the forbidden mountain | The Curse of the Heralded Mountains (Vol. 2) |
| 8th | Le hameau englouti (1959/60) 44 pages | - | The silent hunter | The Secret of the Sunken Village (Vol. 2) |
| 9 | Le traitre sans visage (1960) 39 pages | - | A trap for spies | On the trail of the traitor (vol. 3) |
| 10 | Le signe indiesn (1961/62) 44 pages | - | Flight blind to doom | The gang with the Indian symbol (Vol. 3) |
| 11 | Les loups écarlates (1962/63) 43 pages | - | The thieves' street | The Scarlet Wolves (Vol. 3) |
| 12 | Menace en Camargue (1963) 44 pages | - | The mysterious rider | Drama in the Camargue (Vol. 3) |
| 13 | La couronne cachée (1964) 44 pages | - | Attack in the Königswald | - |
| 14th | Le chaudron du diable (1964/65) 44 pages | - | The treasure in the crater lake | - |
| 15th | L'autobus hantée (1965) 44 pages | - | The sons of the desert | - |
| 16 | Le fantône (1966/67) 44 pages | - | In the shadow of the uncanny | - |
| 17th | Le pays de la mort (1971) 44 pages | - | The wizard from the rainforest | - |
| 18th | Les démons de la nuit (1972) 45 pages | - | Emergency landing in the green hell | - |
| 19th | Vingt milliards sous la terre (1973/74) 46 pages | - | The wolf sorcerer | - |
| 20th | El Demonio (1975/76) 44 pages | - | Attack from the underworld | - |
| 21st | Vingt milliards sous la terre (1973/74) 46 pages | - | The wolf sorcerer | - |
| 22nd | Passeport pour le néant (1978) 44 pages | - | In the sea of a thousand storms | - |
| 23 | Prisonniers du large (1979/80) 45 pages | - | Hunt down the smuggler king | - |
| 24 | L'envers du décors (1981) 45 pages | - | - | - |
| 25th | Souvenirs d'Elcasino (1983) 45 pages | - | - | - |
| 26th | L'île du crabe (1985) 45 pages | - | - | - |
| 27 | Blocus (1987) 46 pages | - | - | - |
| 28 | Le calvaire du mort pendu (1988/89) 46 pages Published in Telémoustique |
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| 29 | Torrents sur Mésin (1990) 45 pages | - | - | - |
| 30th | La pierre de foudre (1993) 46 pages | - | - | - |
Short stories
Independent of the main series, the short-lived Dupuis comic magazine Risque-Tout published three short stories that Charlier wrote for MiTacq. The remaining four short stories came from MiTacq himself and were published in Spirou . The two- pager Les totems is a special feature, in which MiTacq drew the five scouts according to their nicknames as mustang, tomcat, falcon, buffalo and mosquito. All short stories were summarized in 1984 in the 25th album under the title L'Empreinte .
- 1956: L'homme invisible (Risque-Tout, 4 pages)
- 1956: Le gouffre du val d'enfer (Risque-Tout, 4 pages)
- 1956: Les Castors à la rescousse (Risque-Tout, 4 pages)
- 1974: Les totems (Spirou, 2 pages)
- 1979: Vacances goutte à goutte (Spirou, 6 pages)
- 1980: Le parrain (Spirou, 8 pages)
- 1984: L'empreinte (Spirou, 16 pages)
Web links
- Six on a long journey in The cheerful Fridolin on comicguide.de
- The blue panthers at Bastei on comicguide.de
- La Patrouille des Castors near Dupuis on bedetheque.com (French)
- Tout MiTacq at Dupuis on bedetheque.com (French)
- La Patrouille des Castors on bdtheque.com (French)
- La Patrouille des Castors in Spirou on bdoubliee.com (French)
- La Patrouille des Castors on jmcharlier.com (French)