Tiger Joe
| Comic | |
|---|---|
| title | Tiger Joe |
| country | Belgium |
| author |
Jean-Michel Charlier Greg André-Paul Duchâteau |
| Illustrator |
Victor Hubinon Gérald Forton Jean Pleyers |
| publishing company | Libre Belgique |
| magazine | La Libre Belgique |
| First publication | 1950-1967 |
Tiger Joe is a Franco-Belgian comic created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon .
action
Tiger Joe is a big game hunter in colonized black Africa who is hired for safaris by wealthy Europeans. He is given the task of looking for someone who has disappeared and finds the legendary elephant cemetery . Later he has to deal with mysterious leopard people and has to deal with criminal gangs and smugglers.
background
Jean-Michel Charlier wrote the adventure series. The drawings came from Victor Hubinon . Between 1958 and 1961 Greg wrote another seven episodes for Gérald Forton . The last story was drawn by Jean Pleyers , who implemented an idea by André-Paul Duchâteau . The publication began in La Libre Belgique and was continued in the youth supplement La Libre Junior . Some episodes appeared in album form. In the German-speaking area, Boiselle & Löhmann and comicplus + published the first three stories. The series was indirectly resumed years later with Johnny Congo .
Stories
- Tiger Joe (La Libre Belgique / La Libre Junior, 1950 / 1950–1951, 45 pages)
- La piste de l'ivoire (La Libre Junior, 1951–1952, 45 pages)
- Le mystère des hommes-léopards (La Libre Junior, 1952–1953, 46 pages)
- Safari vers l'interdit (La Libre Junior, 1958, 22 pages)
- Menace sur le Gopal (La Libre Junior, 1958–1959, 22 pages)
- Le tigre aux dents de sabre (La Libre Junior, 1959, 22 pages)
- Les pirates du Bengale (La Libre Junior, 1959–1960, 22 pages)
- Les requins du Djaccao (La Libre Junior, 1960, 22 pages)
- La loi de cobra (La Libre Junior, 1960–1961, 22 pages)
- Le dragon de feu (La Libre Junior, 1961, 22 pages)
- Safari pour espions (La Libre Junior, 1967, 22 pages)