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:''For other uses of Nero, see Nero (disambiguation)'' ''The Adventures of Nero'' or ''Nero'' was a Belgian comic strip drawn by Marc Sleen and the name of its main character. The original title ranged from ''De Avonturen van Detectief Van Zwam'' in 1947 to ''De Avonturen van Nero en zijn Hoed'' in 1950, and finally ''De Avonturen van Nero & Co'' from 1951. It ran in continuous syndication until 2002. From 1947 until 1993 it was all drawn by Sleen himself. From 1992 until 2002 Dirk Stallaert took over the drawing while Sleen kept inventing the stories. Together with ''Suske en Wiske'' and ''Jommeke'' "Nero" is regarded as the Big Three of Flemish comics. The stories were noted for their satirical content, with references to politicians and celebrities of the day. Marc Sleen holds with ''Nero'' the world record of issues of a comic book series title drawn by the same author. He drew "The Adventures of Nero" singlehandedly from 1947 to 1992 without any assistance of other artists. This feat is even more remarkable, considering he also drew other comic strip series from 1947 to 1965. ==History== The series debuted in the newspaper ''De Nieuwe Gids'' in the fall of 1947 and was written and drawn by Marc Sleen from the start. Originally the central character was Detective Van Zwam, but halfway the first story "Het Geheim van Matsuoka" ("The Secret of Matsuoka") (1947) Van Zwam meets a man who drank from a serum that makes people go insane and thinks he is the Roman emperor Nero. The character was also dressed in a toga with some laurier leaves behind his ears. Near the end of the story the character regained his senses and revealed his real name was "Schoonpaard" (in reprints this was changed to "Heiremans", in both cases inside joke references to colleagues of Sleen).〔Sleen, Marc, "Het Geheim van Matsuoka", Uitgeverij Het Volk, 1947.〕 The character proved popular and remained a friend of Van Zwam in the next stories, though everyone kept referring to him as "Nero" rather than his real name. After nine stories the series was renamed after "Nero" and Van Zwam became a side character instead.〔AUWERA, Fernand, en SMET, Jan, Marc Sleen, Uitgeverij Edicon/Standaard Uitgeverij, Antwerpen, 1985.〕 In 1950 Sleen left "De Nieuwe Gids" and joined the newspaper "Het Volk". During the 1940s, 1950s and 1960 "The Adventures of Nero" was popular enough to rival Willy Vandersteen's ''Suske en Wiske'' which was published in ''De Standaard''. In 1965 Sleen joined ''De Standaard'' too, following a legal dispute with his publishers. The first 53 "Nero" stories, which were published in black-and-white, remained property of Uitgeverij Het Volk. From "Het Bobobeeldje" ("The Bobo Statue") (1965) on all new "Nero" stories were published in ''De Standaard'' and ''Het Nieuwsblad'', after which they were released as colour albums.〔 Sleen continued drawing "Nero" for many decades. Only in 1992 did he finally hire an assistant, Dirk Stallaert, to do the drawing for him, because his eyesight had become too poor. Stallaert was promoted as Sleen's successor but in 2002 he decided to leave the series in favor of Studio Vandersteen.〔https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/stallaert_dirk.htm?lan=dutch〕 Sleen then terminated the series for good. Stallaert still draws "Nero"-related publicity images and merchandise. The early stories had a random length, often around 240 strips, while the latter ones (from 1965 on) had a length of 32 pages of each 4 strips. Every day, two strips appeared in the newspaper. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Adventures of Nero」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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