Due to The Smurfs movie start in theater on 1st September.I wonder what the story about
"The Black Smurfs".My boyfriend bought the Black Smurfs toy in Hong Kong 5 years ago.I had never knew that smurfs had in black color even thought i had watched the smurfs animation since i was young,thought was another kind of limit edition.
Until The Smurfs Movie on theater now i only think to search the info for the black smurfs.
source from wikipedia
The Purple Smurfs (original French title
Les Schtroumpfs Noirs, literally
The Black Smurfs) is the first album of the original French-language
Smurfs comic series created by Belgian artist Peyo, first published in 1963.
A
part from the titular one, it contains two other stories:
The Flying Smurf (
Le Schtroumpf Volant) and
The Smurfnapper (
Le Voleur de Schtroumpfs).
The Black Smurfs
In a little mushroom village live the Smurfs, diminutive blue-skinned humanoid creatures. One day, one of them gets stung by a black fly
that turns his skin jet black, drives him insane and reduces his
vocabulary to the single word "gnap!" He bounces around and bites other Smurfs on their tail, which turns them into black Smurfs as well. Soon, almost everyone in the village has become a black Smurf, and Papa Smurf, the leader, tries to find a cure and cease the tail-biting epidemic. The cure is found in magnolia pollen, which is gathered in great quantity and loaded in fireplace bellows
to be used as impromptu ranged weapons against contaminated Smurfs. The
black Smurf has to inhale the pollen, which, after a loud and powerful
sneeze, causes him to revert to his usual blue-skinned bonhomie. A great
battle is fought outside the village, as the black, tail-biting horde
closes in, threatening to destroy Smurf civilization for good.
The first black Smurf to have been transformed, meanwhile, recovers
some semblance of ingenuity and paints himself blue to avoid being
sprayed by the pollen-powered antidote. This allows him to ambush
several normal Smurfs and reverse the outcome of the clash. In the end,
only Papa Smurf still stands. He rushes to the lab to reload his bellow
but is bitten while doing so. As he turns, he lets the large pollen jar
fall into the fire, which causes the whole lab to explode. The resulting
pollen cloud descends on the raving black Smurfs, reverting them to
normality once and for all.
This story was later used as the basis for an episode of the Smurfs
cartoon, though their skin color was changed from black to purple, due
to Racial connotation.
source from goodcomics
COMIC LEGEND: The first Smurfs album was basically about zombie Smurfs!
STATUS: True
Reader Jonathan A. wrote in to mention this one, and he’s right, it’s a good one!
The Smurfs (or, as they were known in the Franco-Belgium comics where
they debuted, Les Schtroumpfs) first appeared in comic writer/artist
Peyo’s light-hearted sword and sorcery series, Johan et Pirlouit (Johan
and Peewit) in 1958. They were quite popular and by 1959 they were
starring in their own back-up stories.
Their first album came out in 1963, titled Les Schtroumpfs Noirs – the Black Smurfs.
And the Black Smurfs, their first solo comic title, was basically about zombie smurfs!!!
You see, a Smurf in the comic is stung by a rare fly who effectively
turns him into a zombie (his skin turns black). He then bites other
Smurfs, who ALSO turn into zombies!
The comic was never reprinted in the United States (I don’t know why –
likely the “Black” thing, but perhaps the zombie aspect of it, also?),
so I’ll have to share with you the French pages (Smurf comics aren’t
exactly hard to follow, luckily)…
And after Papa Smurf comes up with an antidote, the remaining unaffected Smurfs face off against their “turned” brethren…
In the end, though, Papa Smurf is the only Smurf left standing
(through a clever ruse when one of the Black Smurfs paints himself blue
to avoid being doused with the antidote). As he is being turned, as
well, luckily, an explosion releases the antidote to all the Smurfs…
The story was later adapted into the Hanna Barbera cartoon,
but in the cartoon, they turned PURPLE, not black.
The Purple Smurfs(The Black Smurfs) Cartoon
