Oumpah-pah
Sign in to saveOumpah-pah le Peau-Rouge (Ompa-pa the Redskin) is a comics series created by comics artist Albert Uderzo and comics author René Goscinny, best known as the creators of Asterix. The series first appeared in the weekly Tintin magazine in 1958 though it remained serialised for a relatively short time, ending in 1962. The stories were published in book form by Lombard and Dargaud starting in 1961. In 1995, the series was reissued by Albert Uderzo's own publishing house, Éditions Albert René.
Key facts
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- Oumpah-pah discovers the wig of a French aristocrat whom he subsequently dubs Two-Scalp.
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- René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo
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- Humor, historical
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- 1958–1962
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comic book series
- Country of origin
- France
- Creator
- Albert Uderzo
- Screenwriter
- René Goscinny
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- start time
- 1958-04-02
- end time
- 1962-00-00
- language of work or name
- French
- title
- Oumpah-Pah
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Characters
- Publication history
- Bibliography
- Serialised stories
- Albums
- Footnotes
- Sources
- External links
Oumpah-pah le Peau-Rouge (Ompa-pa the Redskin) is a comics series created by comics artist Albert Uderzo and comics author René Goscinny, best known as the creators of Asterix. The series first appeared in the weekly Tintin magazine in 1958 though it remained serialised for a relatively short time, ending in 1962. The stories were published in book form by Lombard and Dargaud starting in 1961. In 1995, the series was reissued by Albert Uderzo's own publishing house, Éditions Albert René.
==Characters== The series features the adventures of Ompa-pa (Oumpah-pah in French – the name referring to a waltz), a Native American of the fictional Flatfeet tribe, and his friend, the French officer Hubert Brussels Sprout (Hubert de la Pâte Feuilletée in French, which translates as Hubert of Puff Pastry), whom Ompa-pa calls Two-scalp, a reference to his wig.
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