Les Fabuleux Exploits d'Eddy Merckx
Les Fabuleux Exploits d'Eddy Merckx (The Fabulous Exploits of Eddy Merckx) is a 1973 celebrity comic drawn by [1] and written by Yves Duval,[2] based on the popularity of Belgian cycling champion Eddy Merckx. It tells the story of his career and is drawn in a realistic style. The book was created for Arts & Voyages Gamma.[3][4]
Plot[]
The book starts off with Merckx winning his first amateur championship in Sallanches in 1964 and follows all his conquests, ending with him breaking the world record in cycling (1972) in Mexico.[5]
Sources[]
Categories:
- Belgian comics titles
- Belgian comic strips
- Biographical comics
- Cycling comics
- Comics based on real people
- 1973 comics debuts
- 1973 comics endings
- Comics set in Belgium
- Comics set in France
- Comics set in the 1960s
- Comics set in the 1970s
- Cultural depictions of Eddy Merckx