The Purple Smurfs
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The Purple Smurfs (original French title: Les Schtroumpfs noirs, "The Black Smurfs") is the first album of the original French-language Smurfs comic series created by Belgian artist Peyo. It was first published as an album in 1963, but the stories it contained had already been published in Spirou magazine. The main story Les Schtroumpfs noirs was first published in number 1107 (July 2, 1959) as the first "mini-récit" in the magazine. This was a special supplemental page which readers would remove and fold up in order to create a small booklet. Mini-récits were not included when the issues of Spirou were collected in the quarterly hardcover volumes, so this story is absent from volume 72 of Spirou, though the page containing instructions for creating the booklet is there.[1]
The Purple Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs noirs) | |
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Creator | Peyo |
Date | 30 November 1963 |
Series | The Smurfs |
Page count | 64 pages |
Publisher | Dupuis |
Original publication | |
Published in | Spirou magazine |
Issues | 1107 |
Date of publication | 2 July 1959 |
Language | French |
Chronology | |
Followed by | King Smurf (1965) |
Apart from the titular one, it contains two other stories: The Flying Smurf (Le Schtroumpf Volant) and The Smurfnapper (Le Voleur de Schtroumpfs).