Description

By (author) Morris; By (author) Morris

Short /annotation:
In Texas, Lucky Luke confronts another Wild West legend:JudgeA” Roy Bean, the Law west of the Pecos.

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On a cattle drive to New Mexico, Lucky Luke travels through Langtry, home of self-appointed judge Roy Bean. A crook and a cheat who invents laws and concocts offences, Bean arrests Luke and confiscates his herd. But he doesn”t count on the arrival of another crook and cheat intent on poaching the old man”s game. It will be up to our favourite cowboy to sort it out and bring real law west of the Pecos River at last.

Biographical note:
Born and raised in Belgium, author Morris moved to the United States in 1946 and stayed six years. There, he worked for MAD magazine, gathered documentation, and experienced first hand Lucky Luke”s home. In 1992 the jury awarded him the Special 20th Anniversary Grand Prix at the International Angouleme Comic Festival.