La Corde du pendu
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La Corde du pendu is a Lucky Luke
adventure written by Goscinny with Morris and illustrated by Morris
. It was originally published in French in the year 1981.
The name recalls La Corde du Pendu (1870), the last and incomplete novel featuring Rocambole
.
Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke is a Belgian comics series created by Belgian cartoonist, Maurice De Bevere better known as Morris, the original artist, and was for one period written by René Goscinny...
adventure written by Goscinny with Morris and illustrated by Morris
Morris (comics)
Maurice De Bevere , better known as Morris, was a Belgian cartoonist and the creator of Lucky Luke. His pen name is an alternate spelling of his first name.-Biography:...
. It was originally published in French in the year 1981.
The name recalls La Corde du Pendu (1870), the last and incomplete novel featuring Rocambole
Rocambole (character)
Rocambole is the creation of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, a 19th-century French writer. Rocambole is a fictional adventurer. His importance to the genres of adventure novels and crime fiction cannot be overestimated, as he represents the transition from the old-fashioned Gothic novel to modern...
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Plot
This volume contains a number of short stories, including the titular story:- La Corde du pendu: In a small town, a rope seller named Ropey regularly instigates the local mob into hanging every culprit for even the smallest of offenses - a method Lucky Luke decides to put to an end.