Agent 212 is the name of a humorous Belgian comic about a large police officer. The comic series is written by Raoul Cauvin, and drawn by Daniel Kox, and has been published in the Spirou/Robbedoes magazine since 1975. Dupuis has also published 26 comic books in French and Dutch featuring the caricature police officer. Agent 212 is currently one of the best selling series in French, with 66,000 copies for the 25th album in 2006 and it has currently 1 best of, 3 editions, and 28 main stories.
The first appearance of agent 212 was held in 1975 in the journal Spirou no. 1939. This is the origin of a series that was not to last, the designer Daniel Kox then trying to integrate the Studio Peyo. Until he meets, through Thierry Martens editor of Spirou, writer Raoul Cauvin gags offering him a scenario with a police officer, but the series will interest the public and will continue. Dupuis has then released 27 albums in this series in French and Dutch. In 1990, with the release of the album Rice, O Chicken author regained a gag appeared in Spirou magazine in 1981. The latter was not included in the album round the clock due to a too different graphics. The author, however, redesigned the two boards and created this story after the cover of 12 th album.
