1969, Belgian Comics: "Suske en Wiske", "De briesende bruid"

In 1969 the new "Suske en Wiske" (UK: "Bob & Bobette" or "Spike and Suzy", US: "Willy and Wanda") album "De briesende bruid" ("The roaring bride") is published. The series “Suske en Wiske” was created by Willy Vandersteen in 1945.

No 92: "De briesende bruid"
- four-coloured
- first published in 1969 by "Standaard Uitgeverij"
- never published in English
- story and drawings by Willy Vandersteen
- pre-publication in "De Standaard" and "Het Nieuwsblad"

The story was pre-published in the newspapers "De Standaard" and "Het Nieuwsblad" from 9 September 1968 to 17 January 1969. The main characters are Suske (Spike), Wiske (Suzy), aunt Sidonia, Lambik (Ambrose), Jerom (Jethro), Professor Barabas, Fred van Telramund, King Henderik, the Swan Knight (Lohengrin), Bluebeard, Anna and her two brothers, Diana and her father vader, Sheik El Rui-Genteen, Sheik El Plé-Buij, Bagdada (horse), Anthony Fokker, Snobiënski, Fé Holksong and Willy Vandersteen.

Anna's brothers

Anthony Fokker and Sidonia

Professor Barabas

Bluebeard

Fred van Telramund

Fé Holksong

Synopsis
When Sidonia receives a phone call from the angel Amor, a world full of love opens up for her. She travels through time to meet knights, sheikhs, noblemen and soldiers in the hope that she can marry one of them. But eventually she falls in love with the singer Fé Holksong. Will it come to a marriage or will someone put a stop to it?

King Henderik and Sidonia

Lambik (Ambrose) and Jerom (Jethro)

Lode Craeybeckx, Sidonia and Fé Holksong

Sidonia and Anna

Sidonia, Diana and her father

Sidonia and Sheik El Plé-Buij

Trivia

• Amor, which Sidonia calls, is the Greek god of love.
• The story of the Knight of the Swan, or Swan Knight, is a medieval tale about a mysterious rescuer who comes in a swan-drawn boat to defend a damsel, his only condition being that he must never be asked his name.
• Bluebeard is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault.
• Sheik El Plé-Buij is a caricature of Rudolph Valentino in the film The Sheik. His name is a pun on playboy.
• The horse Baghdada is a pun on the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
• The Dutch pilot Anthony Fokker plays an important role in this story.
• Willy Vandersteen has a cameo in the last four strips.
• Antwerp Mayor Lode Craeybeckx has a cameo at Sidonia’s wedding. Craeybeckx served as mayor of Antwerp (Belgium) from 1947 until his death in 1976,

Wiske (Suzy) and Suske (Spike)

Sidonia, Sheik El Rui-Genteen and Bagdada

Sidonia

Snobiënski and Sidonia

the Swan Knight (Lohengrin)

Willy Vandersteen

Wiske (Suzy)

Cars

• Ford Fairlane 4-door sedan (1968)
• Two unidentified cars

Unidentified car

Ford Fairlane 4-door sedan (1968)

Unidentified car