The Dalton Brothers' Escape

Author/compiler René Goscinni
Artist Maurice De Bever
Number of pages 48 pp.
Hardcover
Dimensions 217x290 mm
Illustrations present
Type of illustrations color
ISBN 978-5-00041-409-5
Publisher: Melik-Pashaev
Lucky Luke Series

"Lucky Luke", along with "Tintin" and "Asterix", is among the three most popular Franco-Belgian comics in the world. The total number of copies of books in this series has exceeded 300 million. "Lucky Luke" has already been translated into more than 25 languages, and has finally appeared in Russian!

Lucky Luke is a charming and fearless lone cowboy from the era of the conquest of the American Wild West. He is a true hero, and even a superhero, honest and just, a protector of all the weak and helpless. He always stands on the side of the law, helping local authorities resist bandits and other villains. Like a true superhero, he has his own superpower: to shoot faster than his own shadow!

Every story about Lucky Luke is an exciting and highly educational comedy western, which reflects real events related to the settlement of the Wild West.

Lucky Luke comics are designed for the widest audience. Both children and older readers will be delighted by the adventurous plot, masterful cartoon drawing, gentle irony, and humor in literally every frame. Humor, based, as a rule, on puns and the principles of comedy of errors, never stoops below the belt. And despite the fact that the heroes occasionally brandish pistols and go bang-bang, there is neither crudeness nor violence in these stories. The main character shoots only to skillfully knock the weapons out of his opponents' hands with an accurate shot. And the opponents, naturally, always miss. It can be safely said that not a single character is hurt in any story. Except for the bruises and bumps that the negative characters occasionally deservedly receive.

Special mention should be made of the large, easy-to-read font, thanks to which Lucky Luke comics will be suitable for beginning readers and will become their first step toward reading the novels of Fenimore Cooper and Maine Reid.

The creators of "Lucky Luke" are two brilliant humorists: the Belgian artist Maurice De Bever, who worked under the pseudonym Morris, and the Frenchman René Goscinni, well known to Russian readers for the "Little Nicholas" story cycle and for the Asterix comics, where he also served as a screenwriter.