SPIROU - Journal album, n°102 - Lot 189

SPIROU - Journal album, n°102 Dupuis, 1966. Large in-4 hardback, blue cloth spine, first cover illustrated in color. Elegant collection from Journal Spirou, corresponding to 102ᵉ Album du Journal, published as an immediate continuation of volumes 100 and 101. The particularly attractive cover depicts Spirou and the Marsupilami at the foot of a tree whose bark is covered with names and inscriptions evoking several of the Journal's major figures - Lucky Luke, the Daltons, Gaston, Boule et Bill, Tif et Tondu, Patrouille des Castors - in a composition that is both narrative and decorative, typical of Franquin's spirit. This volume testifies to the editorial richness of Dupuis in its golden age, and is a highly sought-after link when it completes a continuous series of hardcover albums from the 1960s.