SPIROU - Journal album, n°80 - Lot 109

SPIROU - Journal album, n°80 Dupuis, legal deposit January 1961. Large in-4 hardback, red cloth spine, first cover illustrated in color. Early issue of Journal Spirou, corresponding to issue 80, comprising issues no. 1186 to 1198, in the great Franquin period. The particularly successful cover shows Spirou leaping over the rooftops of a nocturnal village, an image that has become emblematic of this series of early 1960s collections. This volume belongs to the most sought-after period of Dupuis hardcover albums, marked by Franquin's full graphic maturity and the presence of the great episodes of Spirou and Fantasio, Marsupilami and the world of Champignac. The set is of great bibliophilic interest when integrated into a continuous suite of 1959-1961 collections.