Background
- Among the very earliest Lucky Luke work (produced the following year after the first story, Arizona 1880) La Mine d'or de Dick Digger and Le Sosie de Lucky Luke were published before Morris began his five year stay in U.S.A. The artwork of the two stories (which shows obvious differences although created only months apart) demonstrates the changes from the earliest style to what would become the settled Lucky Luke expression. At this point the Jolly Jumper character had not yet been given the power of speech.
- The end of Le Sosie de Lucky Luke marks one of the very few times Lucky Luke kills the villain. The final duel of Lucky Luke et Phil Defer originally ended with the death of the latter. Although, in the censored version, the doctor then declares him simply injured but his shoulder in such a state that his career as a gunman is over. Bob Dalton (cousin of the less fierce Daltons) also met a violent end in the story Hors-la-loi, though after the original Spirou publication this was judged to be too bloody by La commission française de surveillance des publications destinées aux jeunes after new restrictions by the law of 1949, and softened for the album reissue, with the Daltons simply being hanged and buried.
- These stories also feature caricatures of people from Morris' circle, notably André Franquin, Will, and the fathers of Morris and Eddy Paape.
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