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 Bart Perdieus
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| General Description : | Obelix is Asterix's closest friend and works as a menhir sculptor and delivery man. He is a tall, obese man with two notable attributes: his phenomenal strength and his voracious appetite for food, especially wild boar. His strength results from having fallen into Getafix's magic potion cauldron as a boy. As a consequence, Getafix will not let him take additional potion for fear of side effects (for example, turning into stone, as shown in Asterix and Obelix all at Sea), something that Obelix finds immensely unfair. The only exception was in Asterix and Cleopatra when they were trapped in a pyramid. Obelix's size is often the brunt of many jokes. In Asterix and the Big Fight, a druid mistakes Obelix for a patient with an eating disorder. At the end of the book, Obelix decides to go on a diet, but quickly goes back to eating huge quantities of boar. Dogmatix is Obelix's pet dog. Unlike his immense master, Dogmatix is very tiny, but he can have a nasty temper. Dogmatix loves nature and hates to see trees suffer. (Obelix once mentions that this is because Dogmatix likes to urinate on them.) Dogmatix met Asterix and Obelix in Lutetia (in Asterix and the Banquet) and followed them all the way around Gaul until Obelix finally noticed him. Since then, Obelix has become very affectionate toward Dogmatix. In Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield, Obelix gets mad at hungry people who try to take Dogmatix's bone and insists they will be punished if they try to take advantage of his dog. Dogmatix is relatively intelligent, but is useless when it comes to sniffing out a trail. When given a trail to follow, he will follow the scent to menhirs. |
| Face value | 0,60 Euro |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 3484 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | BE 2110d |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier BE 3421 Belgium BE 3436 WADP Numbering System - WNS BE091.05 Unificato BE 3428 |
| Stamp colour | multicolour |
| Stamp use | Mini-sheet stamp |
| Issue date | 24/09/2005 |
| Designer | Goscinny and Uderzo |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 29.00 mm |
| Width | 39.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
