Mama Dalton

Author/compiler René Goscinni
Translator Nadezhda Buntman
Artist Maurice de Bever
Number of pages 48
Hardcover
Dimensions 217x290 mm
Type of illustrations color
ISBN 978-5-00041-410-1
Publisher: Melik-Pashaev
Lucky Luke Series

"Lucky Luke", along with "Tintin" and "Asterix", is one of 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 is finally available 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 defender 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: he can shoot faster than his own shadow!
Every Lucky Luke story is an exciting and highly educational comedy western that reflects real events related to the settlement of the Wild West.
In the fifth book of the series, Luke learns that his sworn enemies, the Dalton brothers, have an old mother. The seemingly harmless elderly lady turns out to be the leader of the entire criminal family and causes Luke a lot of trouble.
Lucky Luke comics are designed for the widest possible audience. Both children and older readers will be delighted by the adventurous plot, masterful caricature drawing, gentle irony, and humor in literally every frame. The humor, usually based on puns and the principles of comedy of errors, never descends below the belt. And despite the fact that the characters are constantly brandishing pistols and going bang-bang, there is neither crudeness nor violence in these stories. The main character shoots only to skillfully disarm his opponents with a well-aimed shot. And the opponents, of course, always miss. It can be safely said that no character is ever hurt in any story. Not counting the bruises and bumps that the villains occasionally deservedly receive.
Special mention should be made of the large, easy-to-read font, thanks to which Lucky Luke comics are suitable for beginning readers and will become their first step toward reading the novels of Fenimore Cooper and Mayne 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 Nicolas" series and the Asterix comics, where he also served as a screenwriter.