UDERZO Lot n° 165

ALBERT UDERZO LUC JUNIOR The Maharajah's Son (T.2), Claude Lefrancq 1990 Original plate n°18 with colors indications on the back, prepublished in La Libre Junior n°51 of December 22, 1955, supplement to La Libre Belgique. Numbered "64" since the beginning of the series. Signed. India ink on paper 43,7 x 44 cm (17,2 x 17,32 in.) Goscinny's Belgian ties cannot be stressed enough. It is there that he published his first important works: Lucky Luke, Le Petit Nicolas, Oumpah-Pah... He met Charlier and Uderzo, co-founders with him of the newspaper Pilote. And it is precisely there that he created with Uderzo the series Luc Junior, for La Libre Belgique, between 1954 and 1957. In many ways, it is a prototype of Asterix: Uderzo is already at the top of his game and Goscinny's dialogues are close to perfection. The Maharajah's child, without question, announces Pepe, the temperamental offspring of Soupalognon y Crouton.