The story was written by Henri Gillain, the brother of Jijé, and was the start of more than 20 stories in the same series, which only had a moderate success and did not get published in albums until much later.
The narrative penned by Henri Gillain, sibling of Jijé, initiated a sequence of more than 20 connected tales within the same series, which enjoyed moderate success but were not published in book form until much later on.