When Pat Poker arrives he panics at the thought of a reunion with Luke but quickly finds an ally in Angelface. ‘Rough and Tumble in Tumbleweed’ has a similar premise, Luke drifting into a town run by a gunslinger called Angelface. An encounter that isn’t entirely unrelated with happenings in Red City leaves Luke down on his luck before he gets there, so when he arrives in a borrowed schoolboy outfit Pat and his henchman severely underestimate our lonesome cowboy, leading to some stereotypical displays of male machismo. ‘Clean-Up in Red-City’ sees Luke hired as sheriff for said town where Pat Poker and his gang run the place from the Silver Dollar Saloon and Casino. Originally illustrated in children’s almanac Spirou, they were collected by Morris’ first publishers Dupuis in 1953 as the double titled Lucky Luke contre Pat Poker/Tumulte á Tumbleweed. Neither story was translated into English until Cinebook’s publication in 2013. Lucky Versus Pat Poker is a collection of two stories that present one of Lucky Luke’s earliest adversaries, the gambling man and scoundrel Pat Poker.
