COMIC LEGEND: The first Smurfs album was basically about zombie Smurfs!
STATUS: True
Reader Jonathan A. wrote in to mention this one, and he’s right, it’s a good one!
The Smurfs (or, as they were known in the Franco-Belgium comics where they debuted, Les Schtroumpfs) first appeared in comic writer/artist Peyo’s light-hearted sword and sorcery series, Johan et Pirlouit (Johan and Peewit) in 1958. They were quite popular and by 1959 they were starring in their own back-up stories.
Their first album came out in 1963, titled Les Schtroumpfs Noirs – the Black Smurfs.
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