Billy the Kid

“Lucky Luke,” along with “Tintin” and “Asterix,” is among the three most popular Franco-Belgian comics in the world. The total number of copies of this series has exceeded 300 million. “Lucky Luke” has already been translated into more than 25 languages and has finally appeared in Russian!

Lucky Luke is a charming and fearless lone cowboy from the time of the American Wild West. He is a true hero, and even a superhero, honest and fair, a defender of the weak and helpless. He always stands on the side of the law, helping local authorities combat bandits and other villains. Like a true superhero, he has his superpower: to shoot faster than his own shadow!

Each story about Lucky Luke is an exciting and quite educational comedic western, reflecting real events related to the exploration of the Wild West.

In the sixth book of the series, Luke comes up against one of the most legendary villains of the Wild West – Billy the Kid, also known as Billy the Kid, and helps the desperate residents of the town of Fort Slabach regain their freedom and dignity.

The comics about Lucky Luke are aimed at the widest audience. Both children and older readers will be delighted by the adventurous storyline, virtuoso caricature drawing, good irony, and humor literally in every frame. The humor, usually based on wordplay and the principles of situational comedy, never goes below the belt. And despite the fact that the heroes occasionally wave guns and make pif-paf sounds, there is neither rudeness nor violence in these stories. The main character shoots only to deftly knock the weapon out of his opponents' hands with a precise shot. And the opponents, of course, always miss. It can be confidently said that no character is harmed in any story. If we don’t count the bruises and bumps that the negative characters occasionally justly receive.

Notably, the large print that is easy to read makes the comics about Lucky Luke suitable for beginner readers and serves as a first step for them toward reading novels by Fenimore Cooper and Mayne Reid.

The creators of “Lucky Luke” are two genius comedians, the Belgian artist Morris de Bever, who worked under the pseudonym Morris, and the Frenchman René Goscinny, well-known to Russian readers for the series of stories about “Little Nicholas” and for the Asterix comics, where he also served as a scriptwriter.