Spirou Album #158

This 1980 Dupuis collection — the 158th album in the long-running Spirou series — wears its tagline proudly: "Le journal de l'humour, de l'aventure et des grands espaces!" The cover delivers on that promise immediately, with a weathered cowboy's face dominating the foreground against a vast herd of cattle, while a dynamic sketch in the background shows a figure carrying another beside a rugged vehicle marked "Midnite Cowboy." It's a striking blend of wide-open Western atmosphere and action-adventure energy that captures exactly what made Spirou such a beloved fixture of French-language comics.