Male marsupilamis have an incredibly long, strong, flexible, prehensile tail, used for almost any task. The marsupilami is a black-spotted yellow leopard-like creature with dog-like ears. In Houba Banana, a 1997 album from the Marsupilami spin-off comic series written by Xavier Fauche and Eric Adam, its binomial name is given as Marsupilami franquini, referring to the real-life creator of the species, Franquin. He successfully found one on his expedition to South America with Spirou and subsequently brought it to Europe, where it later became the pair's pet. Its specific epithet refers to the character Fantasio, who was tasked with finding a specimen by his late uncle. The species' binomial name is given in Franquin's Spirou et les héritiers as Marsupilamus fantasii. The name is a portmanteau of the words marsupial, Pilou-Pilou (the French name for Eugene the Jeep, a character Franquin loved as a child) and ami (French for friend). The Marsupilami returned to the Spirou & Fantasio series in the album La Colère du Marsupilami, released in 2016. In 2013, Dupuis bought Marsu Productions and its characters, thereby allowing a new production of Spirou & Fantasio adventures including the Marsupilami. More than three million albums of the Marsupilami series are claimed to have been sold by Marsu Productions. The most recent English translations are published by the British publishing house Cinebook. Marsupilami's adventures had been translated to several languages, like Dutch, German, Greek, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and several Scandinavian languages. The asteroid 98494 Marsupilami is named in its honour. Marsupilami has since become a multimedia franchise, with multiple animated series, a feature film, a Marsupilami Sega Genesis video game and a variety of other merchandise. The 1987 release of the first Marsupilami album marked the debut publication of the publishing house Marsu Productions, which was named after the character. In the late 1980s, another character of the same species, distinct from the pet Marsupilami owned by Spirou and Fantasio, got its own successful spin-off series of comic albums entitled Marsupilami, written by Greg, Yann, and Dugomier, and drawn by Batem. Since then it appeared regularly in the popular Belgian comics series Spirou & Fantasio, as a pet of the main characters, until Franquin stopped working on the series the character's final appearance in the series during Franquin's lifetime was in 1970. Its first appearance was in the 31 January 1952 issue of the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou. Marsupilami is a comic book character and fictional animal species created by André Franquin.
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