Texas and no end
Texas and no end (French original title: Sous le ciel de l'Ouest ) is a comic book from the Lucky Luke series with three stories that were drawn and written by Morris . According to the French count, it is volume 4, in Germany the volume was first published as volume 4 in the Lucky Luke Classics series, which appeared in 1990, and was incorporated into the regular series in 2009 under the title Westwärts with album number 85. Since 2014 the band has been sold again under the original name Texas and no end.
The comic was originally published in the Belgian-French comic magazine Spirou from October 27, 1949 to August 31, 1950, and in 1960 in the cheerful Fridolin issue 40 to 45.
content
The volume consists of the three shorter stories The return of Revolver-Joe (in the original Le retour de Joe la Gachette) , Round up (in the original Jours de round-up) and The great fight (in the original Le grand combat)
The return of Gunslinger Joe
Lucky Luke meets a stranger who introduces himself as John Smith. He tries to appear particularly harmless in front of Lucky Luke and they say he is also called John the philanthropist. Lucky Luke, however, is irritated by the notches in his revolver and when they visit a saloon together and John pretends not to tolerate alcohol, although he carries a whiskey bottle with him, his skepticism grows. Rightly so: The two of them had registered for a horse race and when it started there was no trace of Jolly Jumper. Lucky Luke can't start, instead John is well on his way to winning. But then it starts to rain and it turns out that John simply painted Jolly Jumper black. Lucky Luke gets his horse back and just wins the race. John then raids the betting office and wants to run away with the betting money, but is outwitted by Lucky Luke. After John's beard was shaved, Lucky Luke shows that John is really the wanted bandit Revolver-Joe and of course he is locked up.
Round up
Lucky Luke, the job is looking for hires as a cowboy for a round up (= rounding up cattle to count). He does his job well, but inexplicably the number of -3 cattle is 200 fewer than at the last count. Lucky Luke does some research and finally finds out what the cause is. Two cattle thieves stole the animals and changed their brand to 4B. The two guys are caught by him and held accountable.
The big fight
When Lucky Luke meets the incredibly strong Percival Belden, he recommends that he face the boxer Killer-Kelly, who has promised a bonus of 10,000 dollars for whoever defeats him. Soon everyone knows about Belden's superiority and before the fight everyone counts on him. The operator of the betting shop, Slippery Nelson, wants to prevent Belden from winning, after he refuses to be bribed, he kidnaps Belden's girlfriend Rosita and wants to blackmail Belden. But Lucky Luke can free Rosita and Belden wins the fight. Nelson has to pay his betting debt.
Remarks
The drawing style of the album differs quite a bit from later volumes: Lucky Luke looks rounder and more comic than in later volumes, and he doesn't sing I'm a poor lonesome Coweboy at the end of the stories. Nevertheless, the transition to the modern Lucky Luke was initiated with the three stories.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Apparition to Spirou. Retrieved February 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Horst Brenner: Foreword to Texas and no end .