Written by: Goscinny Drawings by: Uderzo First published by: Pilote no. 215 (05/12/1963) |
First album edition: 1965 |
How can lovely Queen Cleopatra show Julius Caesar that ancient Egypt is still a great nation? Her architect Edifis recruits his Gaulish friends to help him build a magnificent palace within three months.
There are villainous saboteurs to be outwitted, but Asterix, Obelix and Getafix still find time to go sight-seeing – and leave their mark on the Pyramids and the Sphinx’s nose.
The cover is the one that contains the most written information in the collection and sums up the Pilote spirit in the sixties. It is wild, the invented yet natural complicity between the authors and their readers makes the front page of what is here a splendid album.
Cleopatra’s nose has become famous thanks to Getafix … and at last we have an explanation as to the absence of one on the Sphinx.
The French dice game ‘421’ has been wonderfully rendered in the English translation by the ‘magical’ combination 6,6,6. Similarly, Artifis reads the Daily Nile with comic strips called «Ptarzan» and «Pnuts»!
Français – Éditions Hachette
Français – Éditions Hachette – La Grande Collection
Allemand – Egmont Ehapa Verlag Berlin
Allemand – Egmont Comic Collection – Die Utimative Édition
Espagnol – Salvat
Espagnol – Salvat La colección
Espagnol – Salvat La Gran Colección
Catalan – Salvat
Portugais – ASA
Portugais – A colecção – Salvat
Anglais – Orion
Néerlandais – Éditions Hachette
Finnois – Egmont Kustannus OY AB
Italien – Panini Comics
Coréen – Moonji
Danois – Egmont A/S
Suédois – Egmont AB
Turc – Remzi Kitabevi
Brésilien (Portugais) – Record
Polonais – Egmont Sp
Mundart 45 – Hessisch IV
Mundart 49 – Berlinerisch II
Mundart 55 – Kölsch III
Classic paperback collection
N° ISBN : 978-0-75286-607-9 |
Hardback edition
N° ISBN : 978-0-75286-606-2 |