In 1959, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo created Europe's greatest comic icon: Asterix the Gaul. This new edition presents the 24 epic adventures of Goscinny and Uderzo in chronological order in eight volumes, supplemented by numerous pages of bonus material. Volume five contains the classic albums "Asterix and the Copper Cauldron", "Asterix in Spain" and "The Controversy over Asterix". Short stories, additional illustrations, bonus material - it's all here! Biography (René Goscinny) René Goscinny, born in Paris in 1926, grew up in Buenos Aires and worked after graduating from high school, first as an assistant accountant and later as a draughtsman in an advertising agency. In 1945, Goscinny emigrated to New York. In 1946 he had to go to France to do his military service. Back in the USA, he worked again as an illustrator, then as artistic director at a children's book publisher. During a trip to France, Goscinny was hired by a Franco-Belgian press agency, which sent him to New York twice as a correspondent. He gave up drawing and started writing. He designed a lot of humorous articles, books and scripts for comics. René Goscinny died in 1977.