Marsupilami is a
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al
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animal created by
André FranquinAndré Franquin was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series' golden age.-Franquin's beginnings:Franquin was...
, first published on 31 January 1952 in the
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SpirouSpirou magazine is a weekly Belgian comics magazine . First published April 21, 1938 as Le Journal de Spirou, it was an eight page weekly comics magazine composed a mixture of short stories and gags, serial comics, and a handful of American comics.-Creation:With the success of the weekly magazine Le...
.
Since then it appeared regularly in the popular
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series
Spirou et FantasioSpirou et Fantasio is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comic strips. The series, which has been running since 1938, shares many characteristics with other European humorous adventure comics like Tintin and Asterix...
until Franquin stopped working on the series in 1968 and the character dropped out soon afterwards. In the late 1980s, the Marsupilami got its own successful
spin-offA spin-off is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one, such as television series based on a pre-existing one, or a new company formed from a university research group or business incubator...
series of comic albums,
Marsupilami, written by Greg, Yann and Dugomier and drawn by Batem, launching the publishing house
Marsu ProductionsMarsu Productions, or simply Marsu, is a publishing house and licensing and merchandising company located in Monaco, managing Franco-Belgian comics characters and copyright concerns, chiefly from the comics universe of André Franquin...
. Later, two animated shows featuring this character, as well as a Sega Genesis video game and a variety of other merchandise followed. The
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is
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.
The name is a portmanteau of the words
marsupialMarsupials are an infraclass of mammals, characterized by a distinctive pouch , in which females carry their young through early infancy.- History :...
,
Pilou-Pilou (the French name for
Eugene the JeepEugene the Jeep is a character in the Popeye comic strip. A mysterious animal with magical abilities, the Jeep first appeared in the March 16, 1936 Thimble Theatre strip...
, a character Franquin loved as a kid) and
ami, French for
friend.
Marsupilami's adventures had been translated to several languages, like
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,
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,
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and several Scandinavian languages. More than three millions albums of the
Marsupilami series are claimed to have been sold by
Marsu ProductionsMarsu Productions, or simply Marsu, is a publishing house and licensing and merchandising company located in Monaco, managing Franco-Belgian comics characters and copyright concerns, chiefly from the comics universe of André Franquin...
.
One album of
Spirou and Fantasio featuring Marsupilami, number 15, was translated to English by Fantasy Flight Publishing in 1995, although it is currently out of print. Plans on releasing number 16 ended halfway through the translation process, due to bad sales. In 2007, Egmont's subsidiary Euro Books translated albums number 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 14 for the Indian market.
Appearance
The marsupilami is a black-spotted yellow monkey-like creature.
Male marsupilamis have an incredibly long, strong, flexible and prehensile tail which can be used for almost anything. Female marsupilamis have a much shorter tail, but still long compared to real animals.
Specimens
"The Marsupilami" refers originally to the individual captured and then adopted by Spirou and Fantasio, which they never bothered to name because he was the only known specimen. The
Spirou et Fantasio album
Le nid des MarsupilamisLe nid des Marsupilamis, written and drawn by Franquin, is the twelfth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The title story, and another, La foire aux gangsters, were serialised in Spirou, before the release in a hardcover album in 1960....
is mostly concerned with a documentary-within-the-comic about the life of a family of marsupilamis still living in the wild in Palombia. The spin-off comics later drawn by Batem star those, and the title of the series now refers to the - also unnamed - father in this family, and not to Spirou's original Marsupilami.
In these series, Marsupilami's wife is referred to as Marsupilamie (a female version of the name) but their three young are named, respectively, Bibi, Bibu and Bobo. Mars le noir (
Mars the Black) is another specimen, which first appears in the album
Mars le Noir. A former captive marsupilami, he first finds it hard to live again in the forest. After failing to seduce Marsupilamie, he meets a black female marsupilami, named Vénus. In
Baby Prinz, another specimen, an elderly male who lives in a zoo, is featured. Althogether, that comes to eight specimens in Palombia, plus Spirou and Fantasio's pet.
Spirou and Fantasio
These albums of
Spirou and Fantasio feature the Marsupilami
- 4. Spirou et les héritiers
Spirou et les héritiers, written and drawn by Franquin, is the fourth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and a great leap in the expansion of the Spirou universe...
(Spirou and the Heirs, 1952). First appearance of the Marsupilami.
- 5. Les voleurs du Marsupilami
Les voleurs du Marsupilami, written and drawn by Franquin, is the fifth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, resuming development of the Spirou universe where the previous Spirou et les héritiers left off...
(The Marsupilami Robbers, 1952, after an idea by Jo Almo). This story picks up exactly where Spirou et les héritiers ends.
- 7. Le dictateur et le champignon
Le dictateur et le champignon, written and drawn by Franquin, is the seventh album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. After serial publication in Spirou, the story was released as a hardcover album in 1956.-Story:...
(The Dictator and the Mushroom, 1953)
- 8. La mauvaise tête
La mauvaise tête, written and drawn by Franquin, is the eighth album in the Spirou et Fantasio series. After serial publication in Spirou the complete story was published, along with the Marsupilami short story Touchez pas aux rouges-gorges, in a hardcover album in 1957.-Story:In A Head for Crime,...
(The Wrong Head, 1954) (Only in a short story at the end)
- 9. Le repaire de la murène
Le repaire de la murène, written and drawn by Franquin, is the ninth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, adding underwater adventure to the Spirou universe...
(The Murena's Hideout, 1955).
- 10. Les pirates du silence
Les pirates du silence, written and drawn by Franquin, is the tenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The title story, and another, La Quick Super, were serialised in Spirou, before both were published in one hardcover album in 1958....
(Pirates of Silence, 1956, with RosyMaurice Rosy , is a Belgian comics writer who also worked as artistic director of Spirou during its golden period.-Biography:...
(writing) and WillWilly Maltaite known by the pseudonym Will, was a comics creator and comics artist in the Franco-Belgian tradition...
(backgrounds)); followed by La Quick Super (1956)
- 11. Le gorille a bonne mine
Le gorille a bonne mine, written and drawn by Franquin, is the eleventh album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The title story and Vacances sans histoires , were serialised in Spirou, before the hardcover album release in 1959.The title literally means roughly The Gorilla's in Good Shape, but the...
(Gorilla's in Good Shape, 1956); followed by Vacances sans histoires (Uneventful Holidays)
- 12. Le nid des Marsupilamis
Le nid des Marsupilamis, written and drawn by Franquin, is the twelfth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The title story, and another, La foire aux gangsters, were serialised in Spirou, before the release in a hardcover album in 1960....
(The Marsupilamis' Nest, 1957); followed by La foire aux gangsters (Gangsters at the Fair)
- 13. Le voyageur du Mésozoïque
Le voyageur du Mésozoïque, written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin with assistance by Jidéhem, is the thirteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series...
(The Traveller from the Mesozoic, 1957); followed by La peur au bout du fil (Fear at the End of the Line, 1959, with Greg (writing))
- 14. Le prisonnier du Bouddha
Le prisonnier du Bouddha, written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin with assistance by Jidéhem, is the fourteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series...
(The prisoner of the Buddha, 1959, with Greg (writing) and JidéhemJean De Mesmaeker known by the pseudonym Jidéhem, is a Belgian comics artist in the Marcinelle school tradition. A creator of his own series Sophie, and Ginger, and noted for his work with Starter and Uhu-man, he is perhaps best known for his collaborations and assistance to the work of André...
(backgrounds))
- 15. Z comme Zorglub
Z comme Zorglub, written and drawn by Franquin, is the fifteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first part of Franquin's Zorglub diptych...
(Z is for Zorglub, 1960, with Greg (writing) and Jidéhem (backgrounds)). First appearance of Zorglub.
- 16. L'ombre du Z
L'ombre du Z, written and drawn by Franquin, is the sixteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the second part of Franquin's Zorglub diptych...
(The Shadow of Z, 1960, with Greg (writing) and Jidéhem (backgrounds)). Concludes a diptych.
- 17. Spirou et les hommes-bulles
Spirou et les hommes-bulles , written and drawn by Franquin, is the seventeenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series...
(Spirou and the Bubble Men, 1959); followed by Les petits formats (The Small Formats, 1960); both with Roba (art). These stories, along with Tembo Tabou, first appeared in a newspaper, Le Parisien LibéréLe Parisien is a French daily newspaper covering both international and national news, and local news of Paris and suburbs. It was established as Le Parisien libéré by Émilien Amaury in 1944, and the name was changed to the current one in 1986...
.
- 18. QRN sur Bretzelburg
QRN sur Bretzelburg , written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin with assistance by Jidéhem, is the eighteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series...
(Q.R.N. over Bretzelburg, 1963, with Greg (writing) and Jidéhem (backgrounds)). A longer version was published in 1987 in a limited printing.
- 19. Panade à Champignac
Panade à Champignac is the nineteenth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The story, written and drawn by Franquin, was serialised along with Bravo les Brothers in Spirou, before publication as a hardcover album in 1969.-Story:...
(Babysitting in Champignac, 1968; with PeyoPierre Culliford , known as Peyo, was a Belgian comics artist, perhaps best known for the creation of The Smurfs comic strip.-Biography:...
and Gos (writing)); followed by Bravo les Brothers (Hurray for the Brothers, 1967; with Jidéhem (backgrounds))
- 20. Le faiseur d'or
Le faiseur d'or, written and drawn by Fournier, is the twentieth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first to follow the Spirou retirement of André Franquin...
(The gold maker, 1970)
- 24. Tembo Tabou
Tembo Tabou, written by Franquin and Greg, drawn by Franquin and Jean Roba, is the twentyfourth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the twentieth under Franquin's authorship...
, (1958, with RobaJean Roba was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.-Biography:...
(art)); followed by short stories
Marsupilami
As well as the Marsupilami who lived with Spirou and Fantasio in many of the strips drawn by Franquin, there was another who still inhabited the wild
PalombiaPalombia is a fictitious South American country from the Belgian Spirou et Fantasio and Marsupilami comic book stories. The name is a portmanteau of Paraguay and Colombia.-Overview:...
n jungle along with a mate and children. The family first featured in 1957 in the Spirou adventure
Le nid des MarsupilamisLe nid des Marsupilamis, written and drawn by Franquin, is the twelfth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The title story, and another, La foire aux gangsters, were serialised in Spirou, before the release in a hardcover album in 1960....
(French for "The Nest of the Marsupilamis"), in which Seccotine, a journalist and rival to Fantasio, made a documentary about the life of the marsupilamis in the wild: courting, starting a family and feeding and protecting the youngsters from predators.
By the late 1960s, Franquin decided to pass the Spirou et Fantasio
strip on to a new artist Jean-Claude FournierJean-Claude Fournier , known simply as Fournier, is a French cartoonist best known as the comic book artist who handled Spirou et Fantasio in the years 1969-1979.-Biography:...
. Franquin held the rights to the Marsupilami and would not agree to let the creature appear in any more of the Spirou et Fantasio
stories. Fournier came up with a story called Le faiseur d'orLe faiseur d'or, written and drawn by Fournier, is the twentieth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first to follow the Spirou retirement of André Franquin...
("The Gold Maker") in which the Marsupilami played an important part. Franquin agreed to this last appearance, provided that he draw the pictures of the creature himself. Since then, however, the Marsupilami has never re-appeared in his strip of origin (though he can be seen as a stuffed toy in the Spirou adventure VirusVirus, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the 33rd album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first to come from this creative team, carrying on the series after the work of previous authors...
, published in 1982).
In 1987, Franquin launched the Marsupilami series with the new publishing house, Marsu ProductionsMarsu Productions, or simply Marsu, is a publishing house and licensing and merchandising company located in Monaco, managing Franco-Belgian comics characters and copyright concerns, chiefly from the comics universe of André Franquin...
, with Greg and Batem. This series featured the Marsupilami family which had appeared living in the wild in Le nid des MarsupilamisLe nid des Marsupilamis, written and drawn by Franquin, is the twelfth album of the Spirou et Fantasio series. The title story, and another, La foire aux gangsters, were serialised in Spirou, before the release in a hardcover album in 1960....
. Later, Greg abandoned the series, and other collaborators were chosen by Franquin, such as Yann, Fauche and Adam. The first published album of the series is La Queue du MarsupilamiLa queue du Marsupilami, written by Greg and drawn by Franquin and his collaborator Batem, is a comic album relating the adventures of the fictional character Marsupilami...
. In 2002, an album #0 was published, consisting of short stories featuring the Marsupilami, drawn by Franquin before 1987.
Capturez un MarsupilamiCapturez un Marsupilami!, written and drawn by André Franquin, is a comic album containing adventures and short gags of the Marsupilami. Although not collected in one album until 2002, the contents are the earliest works of the original artist, from publications in Risque Tout and Spirou, and...
(Capture a Marsupilami
, 6/2002) (Short-Story collection). Art and story by Franquin.
1. La Queue du MarsupilamiLa queue du Marsupilami, written by Greg and drawn by Franquin and his collaborator Batem, is a comic album relating the adventures of the fictional character Marsupilami...
(The tail of Marsupilami
, 10/1987). Art by Batem and Franquin, story by Greg.
2. Le Bébé du bout du monde
(The baby of the end of the world
, 6/1988). Art by Batem and Franquin, story by Greg.
3. Mars le Noir
(Mars the Black
, 3/1989). Art by Batem and Franquin, story by Yann.
4. Le Pollen du Monte Urticando
(The pollen of Mount Urticando
, 11/1989). Art by Batem, story by Yann.
5. Baby Prinz
(10/1990). Art by Batem, story by Yann.
6. Fordlandia
(11/1991). Art by Batem, story by Yann.
7. L'Or de Boavista
(The Gold of Boavista
, 10/1992). Art by Batem, story by Yann.
8. Le Temple de Boavista
(The temple of Boavista
, 10/1993). Art by Batem, story by Yann.
9. Le Papillon des cimes
(The butterfly of the summit
, 10/1994). Art by Batem, story by Yann.
10. Rififi en Palombie
(4/1996). Art by Batem, story by Xavier Fauche and Eric Adam.
11. Houba Banana
(7/1997). Art by Batem, story by Xavier Fauche and Eric Adam.
12. Trafic à Jollywood
(7/1998). Art and story by Batem.
13. Le Défilé du jaguar
(The fashion show of the jaguar
, 9/1999). Art by Batem, story by Kaminka and Marais.
14. Un fils en or
(A golden child
, 6/2000). Art by Batem, story by Bourcquardez and Saive.
15. C'est quoi ce cirque !?
(What's this circus!?
, 9/2001). Art by Batem, story by Dugomier.
16. Tous en Piste
(Everyone to the ring
, 6/2003). Art by Batem, story by Dugomier.
17. L'orchidée des Chahutas
(The orchid of the Chahutas
, 6/2004). Art by Batem, story by Dugomier.
18. Robinson Academy
(6/2005). Art by Batem, story by Dugomier.
19. Magie Blanche
(White magic
, 11/2006). Art by Batem, story by Colman.
20. Viva Palombia
(6/2007). Art by Batem, story by Colman.
21. Red monster
(4/2008). Art by Batem, story by Colman.
22. Chiquito Paradiso
(4/2009). Art by Batem, story by Colman.
Other
L'Encyclopédie du Marsupilami
, published in 1991 is an "Encyclopedia" about how the Marsupilami works, not a comic book. Text is by Cambier and Verhoest, art by Batem and Franquin.
Gaston et le Marsupilami
was published by Dupuis in 1978. This album groups all the short stories featuring both Gaston LagaffeGaston is a comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the comic strip magazine, Spirou. The series focuses on the every-day life of Gaston Lagaffe, a lazy and accident-prone office junior...
and Marsupilami, previously published in SpirouSpirou magazine is a weekly Belgian comics magazine . First published April 21, 1938 as Le Journal de Spirou, it was an eight page weekly comics magazine composed a mixture of short stories and gags, serial comics, and a handful of American comics.-Creation:With the success of the weekly magazine Le...
. All these strips were then published in the album Capturez un MarsupilamiCapturez un Marsupilami!, written and drawn by André Franquin, is a comic album containing adventures and short gags of the Marsupilami. Although not collected in one album until 2002, the contents are the earliest works of the original artist, from publications in Risque Tout and Spirou, and...
.
In December 2006, a series featuring the marsupilami as the main character was created in the Bibliothèque Rose Collection, published by Hachette-People:*Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician*Jeanne Hachette, French heroine*Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher-Entities:...
. Scenarios are taken from the animated series Mon ami Marsupilami
.
As an extremely popular character, there has been several Marsupilami cameos and tributes in Franco-Belgian comicsFranco-Belgian comics are comics that are created in Belgium and France. These countries have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are known as BDs, an abbreviation of bande dessinée in French and stripverhalen in Dutch...
, among the earliest in JijéJijé was a Belgian comics artist, best known for being a seminal artist on the Spirou et Fantasio strip and the creator of one of the first major European western strips, Jerry Spring.-Biography:Born Joseph Gillain in Gedinne, Namur, he completed various art studies Jijé (January 13, 1914 - June...
's series Blondin et Cirage
, in the volume Les soucoupes volantes
(1956), where the characters Blondin and Cirage find the creature Marsupilami Africanis
, a slightly different species than the South American Marsupilamus Fantasii
.
Disney animation
DisneyThe Walt Disney Company , often simply known as Disney, is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world, known for its family-friendly products...
's version of the Marsupilami first appeared on television in Raw ToonageDisney's Raw Toonage is a half hour Disney animated cartoon series that aired on the CBS network in the fall of 1992. There are 12 episodes .-History and production:...
in 1992, and was then spun off into his own eponymous show on the
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network. Marsupilami's supporting characters included Maurice the Gorilla, Stewart the Elephant, Eduardo the Jaguar, Norman the Poacher, and other characters. The original Marsupilami stories by Franquin never encountered a
gorillaGorillas are the largest of the living primates. They are ground-dwelling and predominantly herbivorous. They inhabit the forests of central Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and either four or five subspecies...
or
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, since these species are native to
AfricaAfrica is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With a billion people in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14.8% of the...
, while the marsupilami in the comic was said to come from
South AmericaSouth America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere...
. Another change is Marsupilami can speak in difference to his comic counterpart that can only mimic sound like a parrot.
There were twenty-three episodes in the series, and the series lasted one season. Reruns of the show were aired on both
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and
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.
Marsu Productions later sued Disney, citing breaches of its license contract: Disney failed to produce thirteen half-hour episodes (instead producing six to eight minute shorts) or use its "best efforts" to secure a commitment from a network to air the show, and it launched its marketing campaign during a time when the show was not being broadcast. Marsu was awarded $8.4 million. The judgement was upheld on appeal.
Marathon animation
A second series, this time produced in France, premiered in March 2000 and ran for 52 episodes in France's
Canal JCanal J is a French television network dedicated to children's programming. It is available through digital terrestrial television service 'TNT' and is aimed at children aged between 4 and 14 years old.-Programming:*Archibald the Koala*Code Lyoko...
. Produced by Cactus Animation, Marathon Production & Marsu Productions, this series more closely followed the character in the original comic.
In the first season, Marsupilami lived adventures alone, or with his family (his wife Marsupilamie and their three young, Bibi, Bibu and Bobo). For example, in one episode he saved a group of circus animals, got them back to the city and saved the circus from closing. In another, he had to go to the city again to save one of his young, captured by their constant enemy, the hunter Bring M. Backalive.
In the second season, called Mon ami Marsupilami
(translated as My friend Marsupilami in the
Disney ChannelDisney Channel is a cable television channel specializing in television programming for children through original series and movies as well as third party programming. It is marketed to mostly children; however, in recent years the diversity of viewers has increased with an older audience,...
version), Marsupilami and his family become best friends with a human family, the Du Jardin, that comes to live near them. Amanda is a Marsupilami researcher, while her husband Jean-Pierre is a computer technician that works from home and they have two children, Teo (Leo in the Disney Channel version) and toddler Zoe. Leo and Marsupilami become best friends and they have lots of adventures, with both new friends and old enemies, like Backalive.
This series has been broadcast in 35 countries, among them Germany (
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), Belgium (RTL TVI), Canada (
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), Spain (
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,
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,
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and
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), Finland (
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), Cyprus (
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), Greece (
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), Ireland (
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), Italy (Italia Uno), Portugal (Prisvideo), Switzerland (
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), Russia (THT Network), Hungary (
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), Slovenia (
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), Morocco (2M Soreheads), Turkey (Sar-An), Mexico (
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), Brazil (TV Globo), Venezuela (
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), Indonesia (
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), Malaysia (TV9), the Africa Pansat (
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), and Latin America (
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), the Near East and Middle East (
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), (
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), Vietnam (
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), Thailand (United Broadcasting Corporation), South Korea (
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) Iceland (Uppeldi EHF), and South Africa (SABC).
Fame
- A wax statute of a marsupilami was made and exposed in the Grévin Museum, a museum displaying realist statutes of famous personalities, along with two other famous Franco-Belgian comics characters, Tintin and Asterix.
- Many commercial products were created by several societies: clothes (Avance Diffusion), shoes (Léomil), clocks, watches, decoration, dishes (Tropico), Figurines (Pixi and Plastoy), cuddly toys (Nounours), socks (Agofroy), schoolbags (Hasbro), school products (Oberthur), linen (MCT), puzzles (Jumbo), underwears (United Labels).
- Marsupilami appears on a stamp created by the French Poste
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in 2003 (n° 3569).
- The official website www.marsupilami.com claims to have more than 25 thousand suscribers.
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