Tempo #28/1972
Tempo #28/1972 is part of the Norwegian weekly serial run through which Hjemmet/Egmont introduced Lucky Luke — one of Europe's most enduring Franco-Belgian Western satires — to Norwegian readers. The series, created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946, pairs the sharpshooting cowboy Lucky Luke with his sardonic horse Jolly Jumper, a double act whose humour parodies Hollywood Western conventions in ways that resonated deeply with Scandinavian comics culture. Norway was among more than thirty language markets that serialized Lucky Luke, and the Tempo weekly was the primary vehicle through which Norwegian readers first encountered the characters in installment form, beginning around 1971. As a mid-run instalment from the early years of that Norwegian serialization, this issue represents the grassroots magazine format that built the fan base ultimately sustained by decades of dedicated album publishing under the same Hjemmet/Egmont imprint.
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Lucky Luke debuted in the Franco-Belgian magazine Spirou in 1946, entirely written and drawn by Morris (Maurice de Bévère); René Goscinny joined as writer in 1955, inaugurating what is widely regarded as the series' creative peak, a collaboration that lasted until Goscinny's death in 1977. By 1967 the strip had migrated from Spirou to Goscinny's own Pilote magazine, where it ran through 1973 — placing Tempo #28/1972 squarely within the Pilote serialization era. Hjemmet/Egmont, the Norwegian arm of the Scandinavian publishing house that would later become Egmont, licensed the material for its weekly Tempo anthology, translating and adapting stories that had originally appeared in French; the GCD documents that Norwegian translator Jens E. Røsåsen was regularly credited on Tempo-sourced material throughout this period.
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- Publisher: Hjemmet / Egmont, Norway — part of the long-running Tempo weekly anthology series (1966 series), issue #28 of the 1972 run.
- Lucky Luke was created by Belgian cartoonist Morris (Maurice de Bévère) and first appeared in the Almanach issue of Spirou on 7 December 1946.
- Jolly Jumper, described in the series as 'the smartest horse in the world,' debuted alongside Lucky Luke in that same debut story, 'Arizona 1880' (1946).
- By 1972, the original French source material was being serialized in René Goscinny's Pilote magazine — Lucky Luke ran in Pilote from 1967 through 1973.
- Norwegian serialization of Lucky Luke through Hjemmet/Egmont's Tempo magazine began around 1971, making 1972 issues among the earliest Norwegian printings of the strip.
- The Tempo weekly format serialized Lucky Luke stories in installments; collected Tempo Bok albums later gathered these runs for Norwegian readers.
- Morris applied dynamic cinematographic panel compositions and uniformly colored areas to create an instantly readable visual style that translated effectively across language markets.
- Lucky Luke has been translated into more than 30 languages, with Norwegian among them; the Hjemmet/Egmont imprint would go on to publish 70+ Lucky Luke albums in Norwegian.
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