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Asterix and the Golden Sickle is the second volume of the Asterix
Asterix

The Adventures of Asterix is a List of Asterix volumes of France comic strips written by Ren? Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo . The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959....
 comic book series
List of Asterix volumes

This is a list of all Asterix volumes, including the 33 official albums and various tie-ins....
, by René Goscinny
René Goscinny

Ren? Goscinny was a Polish-French author, editor and humorist, who is best known for the comic book Ast?rix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the early issues of the comic book series Lucky Luke with Morris ....
 (stories) and Albert Uderzo
Albert Uderzo

Albert Uderzo is a French comic book artist, and Script . He is best known for his work on the Asterix series, but also drew other comics such as Oumpah-pah, also in collaboration with Ren? Goscinny....
 (illustrations). It was first serialized in Pilote
Pilote

Pilote was a Franco-Belgian comics magazines published from 1959 to 1989. Showcasing most of the major Franco-Belgian comics talents of its day the magazine introduced major series such as Ast?rix, Blueberry , Achille Talon, and Val?rian and Laureline....
 issues 42-74 in 1960.

ster strikes in the Gaulish village when Getafix
Recurring characters in Asterix

This is a list of recurring characters in the Asterix comics....
 the druid
Druid

A druid was a member of the priestly and learned class in the ancient Celts societies of Western Europe, Great Britain and Ireland. They were suppressed by the Ancient Rome and disappeared from the written record by the second century CE....
 breaks his golden sickle
Sickle

A sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a curved blade typically used for harvesting cereal crop or cutting grass for hay. The inside of the curve is sharp, so that the user can draw or swing the blade against the base of the crop, catching it in the curve and slicing it at the same time....
. Without one he cannot attend the annual conference of druids, or cut mistletoe
Mistletoe

Mistletoe is the common name for a group of parasitic plant plants in the Order Santalales that grow attached to and within the branches of a tree or shrub....
 for the magic potion which keeps the Roman armies
Roman army

The Roman Army was employed by the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, as part of the Roman military. Its most important infantry constituent for much of its history was the Roman legion....
 at bay.






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Asterix and the Golden Sickle is the second volume of the Asterix
Asterix

The Adventures of Asterix is a List of Asterix volumes of France comic strips written by Ren? Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo . The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959....
 comic book series
List of Asterix volumes

This is a list of all Asterix volumes, including the 33 official albums and various tie-ins....
, by René Goscinny
René Goscinny

Ren? Goscinny was a Polish-French author, editor and humorist, who is best known for the comic book Ast?rix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the early issues of the comic book series Lucky Luke with Morris ....
 (stories) and Albert Uderzo
Albert Uderzo

Albert Uderzo is a French comic book artist, and Script . He is best known for his work on the Asterix series, but also drew other comics such as Oumpah-pah, also in collaboration with Ren? Goscinny....
 (illustrations). It was first serialized in Pilote
Pilote

Pilote was a Franco-Belgian comics magazines published from 1959 to 1989. Showcasing most of the major Franco-Belgian comics talents of its day the magazine introduced major series such as Ast?rix, Blueberry , Achille Talon, and Val?rian and Laureline....
 issues 42-74 in 1960.

Plot summary

Disaster strikes in the Gaulish village when Getafix
Recurring characters in Asterix

This is a list of recurring characters in the Asterix comics....
 the druid
Druid

A druid was a member of the priestly and learned class in the ancient Celts societies of Western Europe, Great Britain and Ireland. They were suppressed by the Ancient Rome and disappeared from the written record by the second century CE....
 breaks his golden sickle
Sickle

A sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a curved blade typically used for harvesting cereal crop or cutting grass for hay. The inside of the curve is sharp, so that the user can draw or swing the blade against the base of the crop, catching it in the curve and slicing it at the same time....
. Without one he cannot attend the annual conference of druids, or cut mistletoe
Mistletoe

Mistletoe is the common name for a group of parasitic plant plants in the Order Santalales that grow attached to and within the branches of a tree or shrub....
 for the magic potion which keeps the Roman armies
Roman army

The Roman Army was employed by the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, as part of the Roman military. Its most important infantry constituent for much of its history was the Roman legion....
 at bay. Asterix and his friend Obelix
Obelix

Obelix a fictional character from the French comic book series Asterix. He works as a menhir sculptor and deliveryman, and is Asterix ' best friend....
 set out for Lutetia
Lutetia

Lutetia was a town in pre-Roman and Roman era Gaul. The Gallo-Roman city was a forerunner of the re-established Merovingian town that is the ancestor of present-day Paris....
 (present-day Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
) to buy a new one from Obelix's cousin, the sicklesmith Metallurgix.

However, Metallurgix has mysteriously gone missing, and before long our heroes are exploring the underworld of the big city. They uncover a sickle-trafficking gang with sponsors high up the Roman bureaucracy, whose shadowy business is run from below a portal dolmen in the Boulogne forest. When all is revealed and the Gauls have rescued Metallurgix, they can go home with a new sickle for the druid and the magic potions will continue to flow.

Trivia

  • The prefect (and chief villain) is a caricature of the actor Charles Laughton
    Charles Laughton

    Charles Laughton was an England Academy Award-winning Theatre and film actor, screenwriter, Film producer and one-time Film director.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor....
    .
  • Due to a mistake by Uderzo, the final pages were drawn in comic strip
    Comic strip

    A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
     panels, which resulted in a printing error (the panels are smaller and the margins are larger than normal) in all versions.
  • Lutetia (future Paris) satirizes the big city, in contrast with the countryside (Asterix's village)
  • "The great ox-cart race, the Suindinum 24 hours" is a reference to the 24 Hours of Le Mans
    24 Hours of Le Mans

    The 24 Hours of Le Mans is a sports car racing endurance racing held annually since near the town of Le Mans, Sarthe, France. Commonly known as the Grand Prix of Endurance, it is organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and runs on a Circuit de la Sarthe containing closed public roads that are meant not only to test a car and dr...
    , France. Suindinum is the old name of Le Mans.


In other languages

  • Bengali: Asterix o sonaar kaaste
  • Bulgarian: ???????? ????
  • Catalan: La falç d'or
  • Croatian: Asteriks i Zlatni srp
  • Dutch: Asterix en het gouden snoeimes
  • Estonian: Asterix ja Kuldsirp
  • Finnish: Kultainen sirppi
  • Frisian: De gouden sichte
  • German: Die goldene Sichel
  • Greek: ?? ???s? d?ep???
  • Hungarian: Az aranysarló
  • Italian: Asterix e il falcetto d'oro
  • Latvian: Asteriks un zelta sirpis
  • Norwegian: Asterix og styrkedråpene
  • Polish: Zloty sierp
  • Portuguese: Asterix e a Foice de Ouro
  • Serbian: ???????? ? ?????? ???
  • Spanish: La hoz de oro
  • Swedish: Asterix och guldskäran
  • Turkish: Asteriks Altin orak