This is a comic strip story about Naranjito, the 1982 World Cup Mascot, and his friends, who appear to be other fruits.
The caper starts with them watching football on the TV only for the transmission to be interrupted because the evil Dr. Mantis wants to announce to the world that he has some dastardly deed lying in wait for them, as you do. Naranjito and his friends then go about solving it, and they are very clever which leads them to the Madrid football stadium. However Dr. Mantis has some spies out who capture them and take them to Dr. Mantis’s James Bond villain-esque base. Yet they still manage to escape and save the day so that the World Cup final gets played.
The comic strip is very primitive in the way the drawing and colouring is done. The story though is very fast-moving and suspenseful although things do conveniently happen (one of the friends happens to be a pilot, they easily slip out of some ropes they’re tied in, they have some useful gadgets …) and they are too clever for their own good easily getting to the bottom of something much faster than anyone would. But for a bit of World Cup memorabilia it might be worth getting if you can track down a copy.
(It is listed on Amazon here.)
i had/have this from when I was a boy
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