1961, Belgian Comics: "Suske en Wiske", "De wolkeneters"

In 1961 a new "Suske en Wiske" (UK: "Bob & Bobette" or "Spike and Suzy", US: "Willy and Wanda") album is published: "De wolkeneters" (English tranlation: "The Cloud eaters"). The series “Suske en Wiske” was created by Willy Vandersteen in 1945.

N° 41: "De wolkeneters"

- two-coloured

- never published in English

- story and drawings by Willy Vandersteen

- published in French ("Bob et Bobette") as "Les cavaliers de l'espace"

- published in Finnish ("Anu ja Antti") as "Avaruuden Robotit"

- published in Swedish ("Finn och Fiffi") as "Robotama Frán Rymden"

- re-edited as N° 109 in the coloured series (1970)

N° 41: "De wolkeneters"

The story was pre-published in the newspapers "De Standaard" and "Het Nieuwsblad" from 28 September 1960 until 6 February 1961.

Wiske (Suzy) and Suske (Spike)

Lambik (Ambrose)

Jerom (Jethro)

The main characters are Suske (Spike), Wiske (Suzy), Schanulleke, aunt Sidonia, Lambik (Ambrose), Jerom (Jethro), professor Barabas, Theofiel Boemerang, Kumu, Kosmo and the little Robots. The locations for this story are Belgium, the asteroid Adonis, the moon, Mars, Deimos (satellite from Mars), Kumulolis and Kosmopolis (both fictional).

Aunt Sidonia, Suske (Spike), Wiske (Suzy) and professor Barabas

Theofiel Boemerang, Suske (Spike) and Wiske (Suzy)

Kosmo

Synopsis

One evening aunt Sidonia, Wiske (Suzy) and Suske (Spike) visit Lambik (Ambrose) and Jerom Jethro). After watching some television suddenly a mysterious object falls straight through the roof into the basement. Lambik reports it to the police, but they can't do anything. Suske and Wiske secretly take pictures of the object in the crater. Later that night Lambik finds a trail from the pit to Wiske's room…

Kumu

Wiske (Suzy) and two little robots,
the left one is from Kumulolis the right one from Kosmopolis

Kumulolis

Kosmopolis

Trivia

Jerom slaps his fist on the table after reading a newspaper article in which Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev struck his shoe on the table at a UN meeting in New York. In the 1970 coloured version Jerom kills a a fly on a table.

Reference to a newspaper article in which Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev
struck his shoe on the table at a UN meeting in New York

Cars

• Ford (1956)
• robot car 1
• robot car 2

Ford 1956

Robot car 1

Robot car 2