Asterix and the Big Fight

Asterix and the Big Fight

Presentation

Written by: Goscinny

Drawings by: Uderzo
Original title: Le Combat des Chefs
Published by: Hachette Livre

First published by: Pilote no. 261 (22/10/1964)
First album edition: 1966
The film Operation Getafix was based on this album and Asterix and the Soothsayer

A collaborator in ancient Gaul? Chief Cassius Ceramix has gone over to the Roman enemy. There’s something very fishy going on, as Legionary Infirmofpurpus discovers when he is sent to spy on the Gauls disguised as a crab apple tree.

 

But is that just a red herring? And what about the two concussed druids brewing colourful potions? One way or another, the fight for control of the village between Vitalstatistix and his rival is bound to be a knockout.

What the druids have to say about the album

A fight between chiefs – just the occasion Vitalstatistix has been dying for so he can at last show off! And, as you can imagine, he makes the most of it, organising a press conference so he can announce in Pilote magazine that an adventure which he feels can at last measure up to him has begun.

 

Since then people have rather boringly tried to explain that Asterix had a lot to do with the French statesman Charles de Gaulle (who in fact made great use of press conferences to explain his policies). Here though, Goscinny and Uderzo are just having fun caricaturing the press conferences of the man. That’s all, folks!

 

The idea of a blow bringing on amnesia is a classic comic device, shown here by the use of the menhir and cleverly adapted to the Celts. Sheer delight.

Various versions of the album

Le combat des chefs

Français – Éditions Hachette

Le combat des chefs

Français – Éditions Hachette – La Grande Collection

Der Kampf der Häuptlinge

Allemand – Egmont Ehapa Verlag Berlin

Der Kampf der Häuptlinge

Allemand – Egmont Comic Collection – Die Utimative Édition

El combate de los jefes

Espagnol – Salvat

El combate de los jefes

Espagnol – Salvat La colección

El combate de los jefes

Espagnol – Salvat La Gran Colección

El Combat dels Caps

Catalan – Salvat

O Combate dos Chefes

Portugais – ASA

O Combate dos Chefes

Portugais – A colecção – Salvat

Asterix and the Big Fight

Anglais – Orion

De strijd van de stamhoofden

Néerlandais – Éditions Hachette

Päälliköiden ottelu

Finnois – Egmont Kustannus OY AB

Asterix e il duello dei capi

Italien – Panini Comics

Certamen Principum

Latin – Egmont Ehapa Verlag Berlin

아스테릭스와 대전투 – Asteriks maülui daegyeolto

Coréen – Moonji

Tvekampen

Suédois – Egmont AB

Asteriks Sefler Savasi

Turc – Remzi Kitabevi

Asterix e o Combate dos Chefes

Brésilien (Portugais) – Record

Walka wodzów

Polonais – Egmont Sp

Souboj náčelníků

Tchèque – Egmont ČR, Prague

Di Haibtling’ raffm’ s raus

Mundart 18 – Fränkisch I

Ozabfd is !

Mundart 44 – Münchnerisch I

Då Boxe di Beudel

Mundart 61 – Meefränggisch III

The bookseller’s corner

Classic paperback collection

N° ISBN : 978-0-75286-617-8
Format : 287 x 216 mm
Pages : 48

Hardback edition

N° ISBN : 978-0-75286-616-1
Format : 287 x 216 mm
Pages : 48