While
Top Gun Maverick
brought back to the fore the thrilling dog fights carried out by skilled fighter pilots, we should not forget the other great hero of the comic strip who has no equal for triumph over these amazing brawls in the sky: Buck Danny.
This legendary American aviator, who is part of the golden age of Franco-Belgian comics, remains the quintessence of the Navy fighter pilot,
“in short!
a scout with wings”,
as the screenwriter Yann summed it up so well.
The author of this diptych revisits the origins of this great paper hero who appeared in
Spirou
in 1947, under the pen and brush of Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon.
If in the first volume, entitled
The Pilot with a Broken Wing
, our young pilot learns of the death of his father while on leave, while at the same time the attack on Pearl Harbor takes place, the second part, baptized
The Son of the Black Viking,
continues the exploration of the young years of the character
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