La Mine d'or de Dick Digger

Lucky Luke #1
La Mine d'or de Dick Digger

Cover of the Belgian edition
Date 1949
Series Lucky Luke
Publisher Dupuis
Creative team
Writers Morris
Artists Morris
Original publication
Published in Le Journal de Spirou
Issues
  1. 478 - #502
    #505 - #527
Date of publication 1947
Language French
ISBN 2-8001-1441-X
Chronology
Followed by Rodéo, 1949

La Mine d'or de Dick Digger, written and drawn by Morris, is an album containing two stories from serial publication in Le Journal de Spirou during 1947, namely La Mine d'or de Dick Digger and Le Sosie de Lucky Luke. Together they were released as the first official Lucky Luke hardcover album in 1949.

Story

In Dirk Digger's Gold Mine, Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper meet an old friend, the prospector Dirk Digger in extasty over a recent gold ore discovery, en route to register his gold mine claim in Nugget City. Celebrating loudly at a saloon, Digger is identified as a target of robbery by two hardened criminals, and after assaulting him alone in his room, they get away with his gold and a map leading to the gold find. The following day, Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper take up pursuit following their trail.

In The Look-Alike of Lucky Luke, Luke discovers he causes fear in the inhabitants of a town, because he is remarkably similar to a notorious fellain named Mad Jim, currently in prison and scheduled for hanging. Spotted by two thugs who are Mad Jim's associates, Luke is ambushed and knocked out in a scheme to replace him with the doppelgänger in a drunken sheriff's jail cell, in order to get a share of Mad Jim's loot. Taken without doubt for the dangerous villain, Lucky Luke barely escapes the mob lynching before he is able to pursue the criminals and bring them to justice.

Background

Sources

Footnotes
  1. BDoubliées, Excerpts from Schtroumpf, les cahier de la BD" numéro 43, spécial Morris. "Toute la vérité sur la mort des Dalton" (in French).
  2. Law of 1949 refers to: Loi n°49.956 du 16 juillet 1949 sur les publications destinées à la jeunesse, issued by the French Department of Justice.
  3. Fan de Lucky Luke. "La Mine d'or de Dick Digger" (in French).

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