SPIROU - Journal Album, No. 103 - Lot 175

SPIROU - Journal Album, No. 103 Dupuis, 1966. Large quarto hardcover, blue cloth spine, front cover illustrated in color. A beautiful collection from the Spirou magazine, corresponding to the 103rd Journal Album, published during the golden age of Dupuis’ hardcover albums. The cover, which is particularly well-designed, features Spirou, Spip, and the Marsupilami hanging from a stylized hot-air balloon, whose panels bear the names of several of the magazine’s iconic series—Lucky Luke, Jerry Spring, Boule and Bill, Tif and Tondu, and The Smurfs. This composition, both poetic and promotional, elegantly encapsulates the richness of Dupuis’s editorial universe in the mid-1960s. This volume is part of a series that has become highly sought after by collectors, covering the golden age of Franquin and the Marcinelle School.