The Smurfs Archives Vol. 2

by Peyo, Yvan Delporte

The Smurfs Archives is an adventure series that features humor, mystery and lots of smurfy action.

The Smurfs Archives Volume 2 continues to publish The Smurfs in their original chronological order while featuring insightful intros and historical context from legendary Smurfologist, Matt Murray. This volume begins with the 1964 story, The Smurf King and also introduces Smurfette from the 1967 story, The Smurfette.  With 304 pages of Smurf stories and insightful, historical context, this is a must-have for any Smurf fans.

304 pages, Hardcover

Published May 13, 2025

About the author

Pierre Culliford, known as Peyo, was a Belgian comics artist, perhaps best known for the creation of The Smurfs comic strip.

Reviews

[Daniel Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Again, this book is a wonderful archive and presentation of the original Smurfs stories in order. The additional content is great, and the book itself is of high quality.

The only slight downside is that many of the stories in this are near identical to the previous book, as this has the original mini comics reprinted in the full size smurf comic. Slightly longer and better, but pretty much the same. However, there was still some original content, including the debut of Smurfette.

Great - 8/10

[Ewa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Table of contents
Introduction the naming of the Smurfs
The hundred Smurf poster
Introduction Gargamel and Azrael
The smurfnapper
The smurfony
Introduction the smurf king
The Smurf king
Introduction crisis on infinite Smurfs
The Smurfs and the egg
Introduction the smurfette questions
The Smurfette
Couleurs par nine nine culliford
Learn the Smurf language
The hungry Smurfs
The fake Smurf
Introduction Au Revoir Johan & Peewit
The Sorcery of Maltrochu

As always such beautiful colorful artwork.

[Mark Dickson · Rating 4 out of 5]

More repetition from the previous volume than I expected but still an overall fun set of stories.