El circo (Mort & Phil comic)

El circo
Date 1973
Series Mort & Phil
Publisher Editorial Bruguera
Creative team
Writers Ibáñez
Artists Ibáñez
Original publication
Published in Mortadelo
Issues 136-146
Date of publication 1973
Language Spanish
Chronology
Preceded by El elixir de la vida, 1973
Followed by El antídoto, 1973

El circo (English: The Circus) is a 1973 comic written and drawn by Francisco Ibañez for the Mortadelo y Filemón (Mort & Phil) comic series.

Publication history

The comic strip was first published in the Mortadelo magazine, issues #136 (July 2, 1973) to #146 (August 10, 1973).

Plot

The T.I.A. has been informed that a staff member of Circus Sidral is using his job as a front for smuggling an unknown type of contraband across the border. Mortadelo and Filemón are tasked by El Super to find the culprit and secure the contraband. At first they are hired on as caretakers for the sick animals, but as the plot develops, the circus director also asks them to fill in for performers who have become victims of some accident... with predictable consequences:

Each of these episodes ends with a circus staff member posting a notice that the corresponding act will not be performed.

Finally, after being forced to replace the elephant tamer, Mortadelo and Filemón discover that the elephant are actually animatronics in whose interior the contraband is transported. When Mortadelo tries to open the crates with a hammer and chisel, their contents are revealed to be sensitive high explosives, whose detonation completely eradicate the circus. Thence, to compensate for the damage they have caused, Mortadelo and Filemón are forced to abdicate their entire salary payments - up to the end of their lives! - to the ex-director's benefit.

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