Lucky Luke, with his horse Double Six, travels the Old West to right wrongs and bring evildoers (usually his traditional enemies the Dalton Brothers) to justice. "The man who shoots faster than his shadow."
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Arresting a local tyrant crook, Lucky reduces his HQ to a phantom town. A telegraph error sees Joe Dalton released instead of another Joe, and he manages to free his brothers. They head to the ghost town, which they declare Dalton City, under mayor Joe's pirate flag, hoping to found a crime free-haven. Luke heads there and bizarrely advises Joe how to run the town.
Nobody is surprised when the Daltons escape again. Lucky is waiting in their home town when they rejoin their penniless mother, whom shop-keepers just allow to rob them daily, as she was their only visitor and smuggled in a file. Despite guard dog Rataplan, who causes trouble to whomever he follows, and ma Dalton's cat, Lucky can handle the boys, and her albeit it with much more effort.
Lucky is hired to escort wanted adolescent Billy the Kid from Texas to stand trial in New Mexico. Clumsy rowdy Malloy was hired to free Billy, but rather causes physical danger, mostly for himself and bystanders, worse then Rantanplan. When Luke gets his job done, the result is most disappointing.
Lucky and Jolly looked to boarding the river boat Daisyy Belle for Minneapolis in New Orléans. However Lucky can't resist assisting the old captain Barrows in a race dare against the Low River, whose captain spares no dirty tricks,, largely depending on moody, gullible ship mechanic Banks.
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