Trivia / Suske en Wiske

• Executive Meddling: The very first Suske en Wiske album Rikki & Wiske in Chocowakije ("Rikki & Wiske in Chocovakia") didn't feature Suske at all. Wiske was paired with her older brother, Rikki, who resembled Tintin. Originally Rikki was to be named "Suske", but Vandersteen's publisher had changed the character's name to "Rikki" without consulting him about the action. Vandersteen got his revenge, though. He sent Rikki away at the start of the next album "Op Het Eiland Amoras" and then Wiske met a boy of her own age named Suske.
• Missing Episode: The album De Gekalibreerde Kwibus was never reprinted in color and doesn't exist in the official series. It is only available in the original black-and-white version in the Suske and Wiske Classic series.
• Out of Order: "Suske & Wiske" is unique in the sense that the official available color albums don't start with number one, but with number 67! The 66 albums before that were all in black-and-white and aren't available anymore (except in a different series, the "Suske and Wiske Classics" where their original chronological order is respected.) However these older black-and-white stories were colorized and in some cases redrawn and then republished in the official available color series. Yet no effort was made to keep these titles chronological. Older and newer titles follow each other up in one big confusing mess.
  • Even the original releases were occasionally out-of-order from their newspaper serialization, creating at least one major continuity issue: "De Sprietatoom," the story in which Lambik is introduced, was released after "De Vliegende Aap" where the title character is Lambik's brother.

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