Bag of Holding: Douwe's knapsack can hold everything, no matter how large.

Art Initiates Life: The living paintings of long-dead wizards, also in The Black Kimono the painting of a dragon on the black kimono, which comes to life at night.

Later stories tone this down considerably.

An Aesop: The first story ( The Spoiled Princess) is chock-full of these.

For some reason, despite his popularity at that era, there are no reprint of any of his album.Ī complete list of albums can be found below the tropes. Indonesian kid born in the eighties would also be familiar with him as 'Pak Janggut' although, it's really only that particular generation who would be familiar with him. The comics have been published in Dutch, Danish (as 'Gammelpot') and German ('Timpe Tampert'). He has also befriended a family of wizards, who appear in six of his stories. Douwe has faced the villainous Ludo Lafhart and his henchman Knudde three times and the evil witch Wredulia two times. However, there are few recurring characters. Most of Douwe's adventures are stand-alone. The writers also found ways to send Douwe to the Caribbean, Africa, Russia, Japan, North America, the Middle East and the arctic.

Originally, his adventures took place in mediaeval kingdoms which never existed, but later the story moved to golden age Holland. Amazingly, while this is often used to get him out of sticky situations, it almost never becomes a Deus Ex Machina Douwe has to use his wits to bring the adventure to an end. He owns a magical knapsack, which provides him with everything he needs in emergencies. It ran from 1975 until 2001.ĭouwe Dabbert is an old, short man who walks the earth (although mostly Holland). It was written by Thom Roep and drawn by Piet Wijn.

Douwe Dabbert is a Dutch comic series which was originally serialised in the Donald Duck magazine from 1975 to 2001.

De verwende prinses by Thom Roep