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08:46 pm houbanaut [Link]	Haha! I didn't even think of that. Yeah, Franquin created Marsupilami for Spirou back in 1952 (in the story "Spirou et les héritiers", or "Spirou and the Heirs"). Marsupilami was a sidekick on the series throughout Franquin's run, but when he retired from Spirou in 1968 he declined to let other writers/artists use the animal in the series. Instead he created/licensed a separate spin-off series about one of Marsupilami's wild cousins in the 1980s. (This marsulipami was first seen in the 1956-57 Spirou story "Le nid des Marsupilamis", "The Nest of the Marsupilamis".) That comic series was the basis for the Disney cartoon. So the marsupilami seen on the show is different from the one in the Spirou comic, just another animal of the same species. What happened to Spirou's marsupilami after its last appearance in 1970 is unknown. While Spirou and Fantasio certainly don't have it any more, references such as this one seem to indicate that it isn't dead... at least as far as they know.
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