Jo, Zette and Jocko

Jo, Jette and Jocko ( Jo, Zette et Jocko ) is a published 1936-1954 French- Belgian comic book series by Hergé. The three stories were published in five albums.

Action

Jo and Jette are the children of Jacques and Sylvie Legrand. They accompany their father due to his work as an engineer recognized around the world. With the help of her monkey Jocko they can stop a mad scientist and prevent acts of sabotage against a supersonic aircraft and a bridge.

Background

Hergé wrote and drew the adventure series as commissioned work for the French youth magazine Coeurs Vaillant. Due to various editions of content, he was never able to identify with the series in the same way as with Tintin. Jocko is derived according to an interview with Numa Sadoul from Hergé's a toy monkey from, for which he had implemented at the time a sales order.

Publication

The series was released in 1936 to 1939 in Coeur Vaillant and, with a delay of almost nine months in Le Petit Vingtième, the youth supplement to the Belgian magazine Le Siècle Vingtième. The first publication was, however, black and white in black and red two-color printing, the Belgian version. The first story, Le rayon du mystère, had in her magazine version 146 pages; the second, Le Stratonef H. 22 85 pages in Coeur Vaillant and 87 in Le Petit Vingtième; the third, Jo et Zette au pays du Maradjah, was canceled due to the war in France to 25 pages and was published in Belgium no longer at the time.

From 1946 to 1954, the comic came in the Belgian and 1948 to 1955 in the French edition of Tintin for the first time in four-color printing for printing. The second story has been expanded to 102 pages, which finished third, with the participation of Jacques Martin.

For the issue of Casterman albums from 1951, the first story was shortened to 104 pages, the second extended for a further two pages so that five albums were released á 52 pages of comic books. The German-language albums gave Carlsen and writers & readers out. A re-release took place in the series Hergé works edition of Carlsen.

Stories

  • The Manitoba does not respond The outbreak of Karamako ( Le rayon du mystère, Coeur Vaillant, 1936-1937 )
  • The legacy of Mister Pump record flight to New York (Le Stratonef H. 22, Coeur Vaillant, 1937-1939 )
  • The Valley of the Cobras ( Jo et Zette au pays du Maradjah / La vallée des cobras, Coeur Vaillant / Tintin, 1939/1953-1954 )

Assessment

Benoît Peeters evaluates the first story as a naive science fiction that stands in the shadow of the same time of new art The Blue Lotus and The Arumbaya fetish. The rapid sequence of events, many pretty details and the fact that children play the lead role, according to him, but have their own charm. The second revealed to him weaknesses in the plot, but which will be absorbed by the narrative. So can the comparatively lengthy and without too much surprises at the end told story yet to entertain. The last reminds him because of the exotic locales and the more -present humor far more on Tintin. He keeps this band without doubt for the gelungendsten the series, because in him the often too brave and opinionated nature of children is repealed by the childish behavior of the ruler of Gopal.

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