La mauvaise tête

The double Fantasio (OT: La mauvaise tête ) is a comic book series Spirou and Fantasio, which was drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin. The eighth volume of the series was first published from May to December 1954 at the magazine Spirou.

Action

Spirou Fantasio visits his friend, who is totally annoyed because six passport photos are him has been lost. When the two later play a little Jokari and Fantasio accidentally kicks the ball over the fence goes Spirou look for him in the bushes. He is one of the passport photos but thinks nothing of it. As Spirou is later in the evening in the city, he hears cries for help from a jewelry store. The seller was crushed and there were twenty gold watches stolen. Shortly after the police arrive, also appears Fantasio. This he says would have gotten a call from Spirou and would then immediately went to the jeweler. Spirou has not called him. The seller recognizes Fantasio as the culprit again, but this can make excuses for the time being, so he is not arrested. Shortly thereafter, Spirou Fantasio see on TV at the handover of the gold mask of Etchetete to the Historical Museum. Shortly after Professor Wulf Wulffen took the mask out of the box, to Fantasio jostles into the picture and pulls the professor the mask from his hand and fled.

The next day Spirou Fantasio would like to visit, but this is only just out with the car again because the editor had called an American weekly magazine Fantasio and asked for a report. This drove off immediately but arrived he found that it had the address which the man stated, are not. From the theft in the museum he has allegedly committed he knows nothing. Shortly thereafter, the police appeared at Fantasio on and wants to arrest him because of the incident at the museum, but Fantasio flees. Spirou is worried because he can not believe that his friend Fantasio is a thief. The first thing Spirou comes to mind is the Fantasio was hypnotized. Spirou Fantasio suspected new neighbors with whom he has seen him in the city, has the Fantasio but, according to his testimony, never met. Spirou searches the neighbor's house and finds a flesh-colored mass and a plaster bust of Fantasio's head. This suggests a rubber mask that was used to commit the thefts as Fantasio. On the first floor he sees a Chinese man with a gold mask, but he escapes and finds the neighbors of Spirou Fantasio lying on the floor. This he says would be a sculptor and would have made ​​the rubber mask for the Chinese and his accomplices. The sculptor knocks Spirou, so he does not bring him to the police and leaves a message that reads, that the Chinese and his accomplice are probably in the Flayer Road 27 Lach mountain.

Spirou found in the trunk of his car Fantasio, who was hiding there from the police. The two now want to go to Laughing mountain to get the rubber mask and so prove Fantasio's innocence. Since the police Fantasio has discovered cars, Fantasio must continue by train to midfield. There Spirou to pick him up and go with him to laugh mountain. However, it is recognized at the station and so the police can follow him to midfield. As Spirou arrives in midfield, he noticed that middle stage of the Tour de France ( Tour of the South in the magazine called ) is. Spirou Fantasio hidden initially and at the start of the race Fantasio travels with the cyclists the stage, as it so the least noticeable. The track is too hard for the untrained Fantasio and so he takes a short cut riding backwards down the hill and comes to the finishing line first. Fantasio is then caught by the police, Spirou can still escape. He drives to the address in Lach mountain and finds there in the bushes the bound Chinese. In the house he finds the complicity Zantafio (known from An exciting inheritance and mushrooms for the dictator ), who captivated the Chinese, because he did not want to share. Spirou pursues him, but he can barricade themselves in a hut. He tries to outwit Spirou by inflating the rubber mask with gas and the bag with the mask dranhängt below. The notice the balloon that floats outside the house and tried to pull down this, but it pulls the rope and the balloon floats away. Spirou pursues him until he falls down. The rubber mask and the bag fall on a ledge to the Spirou climbs. He manages to grab the bag, but he crashes and remains at the foot of the mountain lie. Three months later, Fantasio is in the middle of his trial, but his attorney manages the process to move to eight days. Meanwhile, Spirou is in a private hospital and has lost his memory. At the sight of a balloon it all falls back on.

Luckily you have the bag and the mask also found and taken. He makes himself immediately on the way to court to save Fantasio. In order to convince the judge he goes with the Fantasio mask in the courtroom and Fantasio is acquitted.

Background

For his idea to play a part of the chase during the Tour de France, located Franquin could be easily excited about: The idea was simple good to run a criminal case during such a race. I think it's handy to remain undetected. In addition, the backdrop of the biggest cycling race in the world, the Tour de France, the artist offered the opportunities for funny moments, such as with the scene, the defective bike controls backwards down a mountainside in the Fantasio, or the finale of the race along with hysterical sports reporter who in the heat swallowed his microphone.

Publication in the Carlsen Verlag

In the edition of 2003, there is the additional story Guardian Angel of robins on the Marsupilami. In the final pages of the magazine Spirou three titles pictures, a story are additionally came with the booklet as an advertisement for the magazine and a story with the Franquin Spirou during a contest of margarine brand Brabantia published as advertising.

Others

Franquin wanted after the previous stories of Spirou and Fantasio have played to more exotic locales, make a pure thriller story. He himself ruled in an interview: I wanted to write a kind of detective story, but that's failed me.

Swell

• Andre Franquin: The double Fantasio. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-551-77206-1.