Virus (Spirou et Fantasio)

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Creative team
Spirou et Fantasio #33 Virus
Cover of the Belgian edition
Publisher	Dupuis
Date	1984
Series	Spirou et Fantasio
Writer(s)	Tome
Artist(s)	Janry
Original publication
Published in	Le Journal de Spirou
Issue(s)	#2305 - #2321
Date(s) of publication	1982
Language	French
ISBN	ISBN 2-8001-1036-8
Chronology
Preceded by	Les faiseurs de silence, 1984
Followed by	Aventure en Australie, 1985

Virus, written by Tome and drawn by Janry, is the thirtythird album of the Spirou et Fantasio series, and the first of this creative team continuing the series after the work of previous authors. The story was initially serialised in Spirou, before released as a hardcover album in 1984.

[edit] Story

In Virus, Fantasio investigates a ship in quarantine and meets his old enemy, John Héléna, nicknamed “the Moray”. He explains to Fantasio that he is contaminated by a disease transmitted by physical contact. Héléna wants to see the Count de Champignac, who is, according to him, the only individual who can cure him. Spirou and Spip join them but the squirrel, before being informed of the situation, bites Héléna and finds itself contaminated with the virus. The Count has a solution: a microscopic mushroom predator of the virus, active only in contact with a poison which does not exist in the polar base where Héléna was infected. The heroes depart for the South Pole while Champignac tries to inform the ministry for research. However, the adviser to the ministry, Basile de Koch, is also the chairman of the company which owns the polar base, where he maintains a secret traffic in biological weapons. He hinders the Count in his efforts, while his killers attack Spirou and his companions in the Antarctic. Basile is stopped thanks to a dossier put together by a journalist working undercover among his men, he cannot prevent the military from finally intervening to save the heroes, cut off in the polar base and at the mercy of the killers. Spip proves to be immune to the virus, and Héléna and the other patients are cured.