Soon, the device falls into the wrong hands. A cunning villain – often identified in this album as or a similar underworld figure (depending on the edition; Vandersteen reused characters) – steals the prototype. He plans to use it for blackmail, exposing the secrets of rich and powerful people across Belgium.
1. General Information | Attribute | Details | |---------------|--------------| | Title | De glunderende gluurder | | English translation | The Gleaming Peeping Tom / The Beaming Voyeur | | Series | Suske en Wiske (Spike and Suzy) | | Number in series | 84 (according to the classic black-and-white numbering; later color editions vary) | | Author | Willy Vandersteen | | First publication | 1968 (in the newspaper De Standaard / Het Nieuwsblad ) | | First album edition | 1968 (standalone, later included in the color reprints) | | Studio | Studio Vandersteen (post-golden era) | | Genre | Adventure, comedy, science fiction, mystery | 2. Plot Summary The story begins with a typical tranquil scene: Suske, Wiske, and their aunt Sidonia are at home. Their friend Lambik, always clumsy and unlucky, inadvertently becomes the victim of a mysterious new invention: a “gluurder” (a peeping or spying device) that emits a strange, gleaming light. suske en wiske de glunderende gluurder
The device, created by an eccentric and morally ambiguous inventor named , is capable of projecting one’s innermost secret desires and hidden thoughts onto a screen. When Lambik is hit by the beam, his most embarrassing secret fantasies are exposed for everyone to see – much to his shame and the amusement of others. The “glunderen” (gleaming/beaming effect) causes the victim to laugh or smile uncontrollably while their secrets are revealed. Soon, the device falls into the wrong hands