Le prisonnier du Bouddha

• Title — Spirou et Fantasio #14 Le prisonnier du Bouddha • Publisher — Dupuis • Date — 1960 • Series — Spirou et Fantasio • Origlanguage — French • Origpublication — Spirou magazine • Origissues — #1048 - #1082 • Origdate — 1958-1959 • Origisbn — 2-8001-0016-8 • Writers — Franquin with Greg • Artists — Franquin with Jidéhem • Previssue — Le voyageur du Mésozoïque, 1960 • Nextissue — Z comme Zorglub, 1961

In The Prisoner of the Buddha, Spirou and Fantasio arrive in Champignac to find great changes in the Count's mansion park. A Russian scientist, Nicolas Inovskyev, the co-inventor of a revolutionary and powerful device named the G.A.G., is in hiding, fearing the same fate as his American partner Harold W. Longplaying. Longplaying has been kidnapped by the Chinese army, who want his technology, and is being held captive in one of a series of giant statues of the Buddha which line up a valley. Armed with the new invention, the heroes set out to rescue the prisoner, and save the world.

Featured in this album are two seemingly British, twin-like and awkward investigators, in what may be a homage to Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin characters, Dupont et Dupond (Thomson and Thompson).