Agent 212

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Agent 212
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Agent 212, Cover of the first album (1981)
Author(s) Raoul Cauvin
Illustrator(s) Daniel Kox
Current status/scheduleRunning
Launch date1981
Publisher(s) Dupuis
Genre(s) Humor comics, Satire

Agent 212 is a humorous Belgian comic about a rotund police officer who usually suffers as a result of the people and situations he encounters. [1] Created by writer Raoul Cauvin and illustrator Daniel Kox, the comic debuted in Spirou magazine on 12 June 1975. [2] The first album of the series was published in 1981 by Belgian publishing house Dupuis . To date, 30 comic albums of Agent 212 have been published by Dupuis in French and Dutch. Agent 212 is among the best selling French comics, with 66,000 copies for the 25th album in 2006. [3] The series is also popular in Indonesia.

Contents

Structure

The Agent 212 albums are usually about 48 pages. Unlike other Franco-Belgian comic titles such as Tintin, Asterix and Lucky Luke , the Agent 212 albums do not comprise single stories spanning the length of the book. Instead, each album comprises a number of short and usually unrelated stories, ranging in length from one to five pages, though the lead story in Volume 4 spans 12 pages. [4]

Main characters

Antagonists

Albums

Statue in Middelkerke Monique Mol - Agent 212 - Stripstandbeelden Middelkerke 21-4-2018 10-49-46.jpg
Statue in Middelkerke

In Indonesian

The Agent 212 comics have been translated into Indonesian under the series title Agen Polisi 212. The first 16 albums were released in standard large format (11 x 8.3 inches) by now-defunct publishing company PT Midas Surya Grafindo (Misurind) from 1987 to 1995. [6] [7] In 2011, new Indonesian translations were commissioned by PT Bhuana Ilmu Populer (BIP, a unit of the Gramedia publishing group), which began releasing the entire series in a smaller format (8.6 x 6.2 inches). [8]

See also

Belgian comics

Franco-Belgian comics

References

  1. "Agent 212". Dupuis (in Dutch). 2 January 2024.
  2. "Les premières fois". toutspirou.fr. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  3. Ratier, Gilles. "ACBD bilan 2006". ACBD.fr. Archived from the original on 2007-03-05. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
  4. "Agent 212". dupuis.com (in Dutch). 13 October 2023.
  5. Filippini, Henri (14 March 2016). "Agent 212 T29 : Agent tous risques". BDzoom.com. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  6. Kox, Daniel (1984). Agen Polisi 212 Siang Dan Malam (First Indonesian ed.). Misurind. p. 48.
  7. Kox, Daniel (1995). Agen Polisi 212 ...ADUH! (First Indonesian ed.). Misurind. p. 48.
  8. Andrian, Abduraafi. "Antara Aksi Superdamai 2 Desember, Wiro Sableng, dan Agen Polisi 212". Scoop Berita. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2017.