Lucky Luke versus Joss Jamon
Lucky Luke versus Joss Jamon (on the cover … versus Joss Jamon , original French title: Lucky Luke versus Joss Jamon ) is a comic book from the Lucky Luke series, drawn by Morris and written by René Goscinny .
According to the Ehapa-Verlag (or at the beginning: Delta-Verlag from Ehapa and Dargaud ) the volume is the 24th in the series. The comic had previously been published by Kauka as a sequel story or in Der hehre Fridolin , but the comic was sometimes given different names.
The comic was originally published in 1956 in the Belgian-French comic magazine Spirou (under the title Lucky Luke et la Bande des Joss Jamon) and in 1958 as the 11th volume by Dupuis in Belgium.
This band was filmed for the cartoon series Lucky Luke .
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The criminal Joss Jamon raids farms and cities with his gang after the end of the Civil War . Lucky Luke is falsely captured as a member of the gang in Los Palitos, a member of the gang also accuses him. When he is about to be hanged , he offers to catch the real gang; if he fails, he would return in six months and let himself be hanged. Jamon settles in Frontier City, where Luke arrives soon and expresses his intention to capture the gang. A first attempt to eliminate Luke fails early on, so that Jamon first wants to seize power in the city. Therefore, he takes over all business, including the bank and the saloon , even if this does not go without confrontations with Lucky Luke. Eventually, Jamon manages to become mayor by exerting pressure on the residents of Frontier City. Now the gang is exploiting the city through various nonsensical taxes and many criminals are lured in. Lucky Luke then repeatedly shoots objects that belong to Jamon, which causes an uproar. That's why Jamon puts a high bounty on Lucky Luke, who disguises himself several times in order to be able to go back to the city, where he ensures that the public mood in the city remains bad. As a result, Jamon's gang catches Lucky Luke and throws him an unfair trial that ends with a death sentence . The population freed Luke because of the unjust course of the trial and there was an open riot against Jamon. When Luke and the townspeople find a military trumpet, Jamon's gang think the army is there and give up. Jamon himself escapes and is pursued by Lucky Luke, who eventually catches him. Frontier City has now been freed from the bandits, so that Luke can deliver Jamon's gang in Los Palitos.
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The first page was replaced by Spirou after publication, as Joss Jamon’s gang was presented too positively by the latter.
When Jamon takes over town, the four Daltons are shown, and Jesse James , Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane also appear as crooks; William Dalton still calls himself Bill here . The Daltons are also mentioned here as cousins of the previous Dalton brothers who have historical models and who also appeared at Lucky Luke. Only the appearance of the Daltons resembles the later appearance, the other historical figures look different later, and Calamity Jane later even becomes an ally of Lucky Luke (as in the volume Calamity Jane and later).
A member of the Joss Jamons gang, Wechsel-Pete, is a cartoon of Goscinny's who was involved in all subsequent Lucky Luke volumes until his death. On page 19, the cartoon character Red Ryder and his Indian friend Little Beaver (Petit Castor) are shown. On page 28 the French actor and chansonnier Jean Gabin has a guest appearance.