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Lucky Luke is a Belgian Comic Book series. Set in the American Old West , it stars the titular character, Lucky Luke, the Cowboy known to ''shoot faster than his shadow''. After Tintin and Asterix , Lucky Luke is the most popular and best-selling comic-book series in Continental Europe , but strangely enough only a handful of his adventures have been published in the English-speaking world. Both a tribute to the mythic Old West and an affectionate Parody , the hardcover comics were drawn by the Belgian artist Morris ( 1923 - 2001 ). The scripts of some (though not all) of the earlier books were written by Frenchman René Goscinny ( 1926 - 1977 ), best known for Asterix . After Goscinny's death many tried to fill the gap. After Morris' death, French artist Achdé continued drawing new Lucky Luke stories. Luke, drawing a gun faster than his shadow, fights crime and injustice, most often in the form of the bumbling Dalton Brothers , Joe, William, Jack and Averell (each one being taller and dumber than the previous one). He rides Jolly Jumper , "the smartest horse in the world". He is often seen with Rantanplan , "the stupidest dog in the universe", the name being an allusion to Rin Tin Tin . A cigarette was constantly at his lips in the early albums, but (since it was essentially a parody of abundant cigarette usage in Western Movie s to begin with), in 1983 Morris replaced the cigarette with a piece of straw, which earned him recognition from the World Health Organization . In the albums, Luke meets many factual Western figures like Calamity Jane , Billy The Kid , Judge Roy Bean and Jesse James 's gang, and takes part in such historical endeavors such as guarding of Wells Fargo stagecoaches, the Pony Express , the building of the first transcontinental Telegraph , and the Rush into the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma . At the end of each story, except the earliest, Lucky Luke rides off alone into the sunset, singing (in English) "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, and a long way from home...". LIST OF ALBUMS By Morris only
Script by René Goscinny
Different writers
Art by Achdé
LUCKY LUKE IN OTHER MEDIA Animation In addition to three theatrical animated movies, there was also an animated ''Lucky Luke'' television series: In 1983, Hanna-Barbera studios and Morris released 26 episodes, and in 1991, 26 more episodes were released. In 2001, Xilam {Link without Title} produced a new series of 52 episodes known as "Les Nouvelles aventures de Lucky Luke" (''Lucky Luke's new adventures''). It is now available on 8 DVDs with French and English audio tracks. This series also featured colonel Custer who is an Indian-hater and a dwarf. Live-action movies and television In the early 1990s , two movies and a television series starring Terence Hill as Lucky Luke were produced. In 2004 , Til Schweiger starred as Lucky Luke in the movie ''Les Dalton''. Video games Over the years, several Lucky Luke video games were released for many platforms, most of them by Infogrames . The last one is being developed for mobile phones by The Mighty Troglodytes and will be available by the end of 2005. REAL PROTOTYPES OF LUCKY LUKE SERIES CHARACTERS
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