In 1962, the publisher Dupuis released "Le Maître de la Sierra", the tenth album in the "Jerry Spring" comic series. The series was created in 1954 by Jijé (Joseph Gillain) for the weekly magazine Spirou / Robbedoes. In the early stories, Jijé wrote the scripts himself, but he later collaborated with other writers such as Maurice Rosy, René Goscinny, Jean Acquaviva, Jacques Lob, Daniel Dubois and Philip (his son).
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| Dutch Cover: "De meester van de Sierra" |
The series is a Western set in the American West during the second half of the nineteenth century. Jerry Spring faces a wide range of adversaries, including bandits, traffickers, rebellious Native Americans and renegades of all kinds. The stories are consistently imbued with a strong sense of humanism and moral integrity. Spring is highly skilled in the use of firearms, although he never uses them to kill.
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| Jerry Spring and Pancho |
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| Chiquito, Ruby and Jerry Spring |
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| El Tigre |
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| Ray Parker and Jerry Spring |
"Le Maître de la Sierra"
- full colour
- publisher: Dupuis
- pre-published in Spirou / Robbedoes (1960)
- Danish title "Sierraens herre" (Jerry Spring komplet 3, Fahrenheit i fællesskab, 2012)
- Dutch title: "De meester van de Sierra" (Dupuis, 1962)
- German title: "Der Herr der Sierra" (Bastei-Verlag, 1972)
- never published in English
- drawings by Jijé (Joseph Gillain)
- story by Philip (Philippe Gillain)
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| Alec Ruthman and Helen |
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| Don Carlos Diaz De Castro |
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| Don Pablo, El Tigre and Jerry Spring |
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| Don Ramon and Manuela |
Main characters in this story are Jerry Spring, Ruby (his horse), Jim Slade, Ray Parker, Alec Ruthman, Helen, Sandoval, El Tigre, Pepe, Pancho, Chiquito (Pancho’s horse), Don Carlos Diaz De Castro, Don Ramon, Don Pablo, Dona Ines, Manuela, George Harrison, and Teddy Harrison.
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| Don Ramon, Jerry Spring and Pancho |
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| Dona Ines and Don Ramon |
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| Jim Slade and Ray Parker |
Synopsis
Jerry Spring is hired by a New York lawyer, Ray Parker, who represents the billionaire George Harrison. Before his death, Harrison wishes to find his grandson, Teddy Harrison, who disappeared in Mexico with his parents during a revolution. The parents were killed, and the child was abducted. Now, some twenty-five years later, Harrison hopes to pass on his fortune to his grandson rather than leave it to his dissolute nephew, Alec Ruthman. Spring accepts the mission and, accompanied by Pancho, travels to Mexico. There, however, the two men soon cross paths with a notorious Mexican bandit known as El Tigre…
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| Jerry Spring and Sandoval |
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| Pepe |
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| George Harrison, Teddy Harrison and Jerry Spring |
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