<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium" id="mw-Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Belgium">Belgian</a> artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyo" id="mw-g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Peyo">Peyo</a>'s comic characters, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs" id="mw-w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Smurfs">the Smurfs</a>, make their debut in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirou_(magazine)" id="mw_A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Spirou (magazine)">Spirou</a> magazine.<sup about="#mwt70" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_23#cite_note-12" id="mw_Q" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw_g">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt67" class="citation magazine cs1" id="CITEREFGajanan2018">Gajanan, Mahita (23 October 2018). <a class="external text" href="https://time.com/5431298/are-the-smurfs-communist/" id="mwB98" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"What to Know About the Rise and Fall of the Theory That the Smurfs Are Communists"</a>. <i id="mwB-A">Time Magazine</i>. New York City, NY: Time Magazine<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB-E">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB-I">23 October</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt67" class="Z3988" id="mwB-M" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Time+Magazine&amp;rft.atitle=What+to+Know+About+the+Rise+and+Fall+of+the+Theory+That+the+Smurfs+Are+Communists&amp;rft.date=2018-10-23&amp;rft.aulast=Gajanan&amp;rft.aufirst=Mahita&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F5431298%2Fare-the-smurfs-communist%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+23"></span></span>