Growth After WWII
After some difficulties during the war (mainly because of the scarcity of paper towards the end of it, but also because American comics weren't allowed to be published anymore), Dupuis started to grow quickly. Le moustique became one of the leading magazines with info on radio and (later) television in Belgium, and Spirou was one of the two leading European comic magazines (together with Tintin magazine).
Dupuis started publishing some books as well, but had real success by republishing the comics that had appeared as serials in the magazine, collected as albums afterwards. Sometimes these were one shots, but mainly they came in series. Dupuis has some of the best selling comic series, including Lucky Luke, The Smurfs, Gaston Lagaffe and Largo Winch. Many of these comic books have been reprinted constantly for thirty or forty years, thereby generating a constant revenue for the editor.
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