Agent 212 | |
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Author(s) | Raoul Cauvin |
Illustrator(s) | Daniel Kox |
Current status/schedule | Running |
Launch date | 1981 |
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.