While Éditions Dupuis only brought out the first album of Poussy?s adventures in 1976, the origins of Peyo?s character actually go back much further in time. On 22 January 1949, a small gag in four pan-els relating to Poussy the cat appeared in Le Soir, a well-known Brussels daily newspaper. Fewer than 15 such gags appeared that first year. From 1951 onwards, Peyo was given two weekly strips to fill and his feline creation had just a little more space in which to stretch its limbs. But it was after the re-launch of the weekly children?s supplement, Le Soir Jeunesse (first launched in 1940 by Hergé to accommodate his Tintin & Milou), that on 15 September 1955 Peyo?s little cat began occupying a whole half-page a week ? a presence that amounted to 240 gags in total.All those Poussy gags originally published in Le Soir Jeunesse were later reprinted in Spirou, beginning with no. 1,438 (5 November 1965) and continuing, one after another, until no. 2,047 in 1977.This one appeared in Spirou no 1,804 (9 November 1972), and was special in that it occupied a full page.