Tora Torapa

{{Infobox graphic novel|  title= Spirou et Fantasio #23 <br/> Sonetmicrosystems |englishtitle= |foreigntitle= |image= Spirou23tora.jpg |caption=Cover of the Belgian edition |publisher=Dupuis |date=1973 |series=''Spirou et Fantasio'' |origlanguage=French |origpublication= ''Spirou'' magazine |origissues= #1801 - #1824 |origdate= 1972 |origisbn= 2-8001-0327-2 |transtitle= |transpublisher= |transdate= |transseriestitle= |transisbn= |translator= |writers=Fournier |artists= Fournier |colorists= |previssue= ''L'abbaye truquée'', 1972 |nextissue= ''Tembo Tabou'', 1974 }} '''''Tora Torapa''''', written and drawn by Fournier, is the twenty-third album of the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' series, and the author's fourth, following the ''Spirou'' retirement of André Franquin. The story was initially serialised in ''Spirou'' magazine before its publication as a hardcover album in 1973.

==Story== In ''Tora Torapa'', Spirou, Fantasio, The Count, Itoh Kata and Zorglub are all gathered at Champignac, when ''The Triangle'' appears again, this time to kidnap the scientist with a dubious past, Zorglub. The heroes manage to shoot a tracking device into their abducted friend, and eventually trace the movements of the kidnappers to the island of Tora Torapa, in the past the location of an old base used by the Zorglub network. There, Triangle number one ''Papa Pop'' (cf. Papa Doc), actually one of Spirou's arch-enemies Zantafio in disguise, is waiting with evil plans for world domination, but which he needs Zorglub to set into effect.

==Background== In this album, Ororéa is introduced.

==Trivia== Papa Pop's henchman Mac Ravash bears strong resemblance to comics writer and ''Spirou'' magazine editor Yvan Delporte.<ref name="Tora Torapa">{{cite web | last = spirou.com | title = Tora Torapa personnages | url =http://www.spirou.com/Spirou/albums/23/index.htm }}{{in lang|fr}}</ref>

The album features cameos of two other famous characters in Franco-Belgian comics (also featured in the ''Spirou'' magazine); at the airport, airline hostess Natacha is seen leading the boy Benoît Brisefer.

==References== {{refbegin}} * [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/auteurs2/fournier.htm Fournier publications in ''Spirou''] BDoubliées {{in lang|fr}} '''Footnotes''' {{refend}} {{reflist}}

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070224181830/http://www.spirou.com/spirou/albums.shtml Spirou official site album index] {{in lang|fr}}

Category:Spirou et Fantasio albums Category:Works originally published in Spirou (magazine) Category:Literature first published in serial form Category:1973 books Category:1973 in comics Category:Comics set in Oceania