Lucky Luke versus Pat Poker

Lucky Luke vs. Pat Poker is a Lucky Luke comic album by the Belgian comic artist Morris . The two stories contained in it, Großputz in Red City and Tumult in Tumbleweed, are among the oldest stories about the lonely cowboy, in the album concept they were first published in German in 1967.

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Large scale plaster in Red City

Lucky Luke's clothes and horse are stolen while bathing. So he has to start his new job as sheriff in Red City in a rather ridiculous wait. Cardsharps Pat Poker and his gang who have the city under control are obviously not happy about this. However, because of his behavior, they initially consider him a completely harmless “ greenhorn ” and treat him accordingly disrespectful - among other things, he is assigned a rocking horse .

Luke first attracts attention when he prevents a planned execution. Then Luke plays with Pat poker in the saloon poker . Luke wins by forcing Poker to strip down to his pants, which means he can no longer hide aces up his sleeve. In the next step, Luke puts two of Poker's guys in jail and thus becomes a target - much to the delight of the gravedigger.

Shortly afterwards, Lucky Luke shows his true colors and presents himself as the "tough man" of the West. He shoots with absolute precision and speed while playing with his revolver, smokes constantly, and finally shoots the gun out of his hand. This falls over dead and is taken away by the gravedigger. Because Luke gets suspicious, he finds the two in the cemetery - both alive. Luke brings poker to justice after a brief prosecution.

Tumbleweed tumult

Lucky Luke arrives in the western town of Tumbleweed, which is apparently dominated by a guy nicknamed Angelface. He immediately tries to drive Luke away, but then has to take it himself hard. When a shepherd turns up in town, things get tricky. Because at that time shepherds and their animals were not at all welcomed, because allegedly a cow would never again graze where sheep grazed.

Angelface wants to hang up the shepherd immediately, but Luke prevents it. Shortly afterwards, Pat Poker arrives in town. Initially penniless, but that changes quickly after the first game of poker - he now owns the saloon. The duel that Angelface demands of Lucky Luke ends with Angelface falling into a pit while walking backwards.

Now that Luke is on their hit list, they agree that Angelface should shoot him at the window of the saloon during a game of cards. But Luke smells the roast and doesn't sit down by the window, whereupon Pat Poker, who is now sitting at the window himself, gets so nervous that he loses all the time. However, there was no danger at all, because Angelface's Winchester had been rendered unusable.

Shortly thereafter, a sheriff arrives in Tumbleweed and wants to arrest Poker. However, that goes wrong at first and he is beaten up. Luke wants to clear up the matter and goes back to the saloon, where he knocks out after Angelface has fired all his bullets on a dummy. A breakneck horse chase later, he also arrests Pat Poker.

Release history

The two stories, called Nettoyage à Red City and Tumulte à Tumbleweed in the French original , appeared in the Belgian magazine Spirou , from May to August 1951 and May to September 1952, respectively. Between these two stories, the story The Lawless (now in volume 81) was created. .

In 1953, the Dupuis publishing house put the stories together in one volume and gave them a matching cover picture. It shows Lucky Luke, with his Colt drawn, entering a saloon, where Pat Poker is trying to grab the cannon. In 1964 the stories were published as a paperback - in an uncolored version.

The first German-language edition was published in 1960 as Aufregung in Red City and Alarm in Tumbleweed in the series Der hehre Fridolin . 7 years later they also appear in Fix and Foxi super tip top under the title Lucky Luke: Ausgespiel - Pat Poker . In 1992 Ehapa-Verlag published the stories in the Lucky Luke Classics series . In the much better-known album series by this same publisher, the two stories finally appeared in 2010 as number 87, more than 50 years after their creation.

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• Foreword by Horst Berner in the Ehapa album

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• Morris: Lucky Luke versus Pat Poker , original title Lucky Luke versus Pat Poker ; Translation by Gudrun Penndorf; Egmont Ehapa Publishing House; Berlin 2010; ISBN 978-3-7704-3408-4