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{{Infobox graphic novel|  <!--Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics--> 
title= Spirou et Fantasio #31 <br/> La boîte noire
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|image= Spirou31noire.jpg
|caption=Cover of the Belgian edition
|publisher=[[Dupuis]]
|date=1983
|series=''[[Spirou et Fantasio]]''  
|origlanguage=French
|origpublication= ''[[Spirou (magazine)|Spirou]]'' magazine
|origissues=  #2322 - #2343
|origdate= 1982
|origisbn= 2-8001-0994-7
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|writers=[[Raoul Cauvin|Cauvin]]
|artists=  [[Nic Broca|Nic]]
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|previssue= ''[[La ceinture du grand froid]]'', 1983
|nextissue= ''[[Les faiseurs de silence]]'', 1984
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'''''La boîte noire''''', by Nic (Broca) & [[Raoul Cauvin|Cauvin]], is the thirty-first album of the ''[[Spirou et Fantasio]]'' series, and the second of the authors. The story was initially serialised in ''[[Spirou (magazine)|Spirou]]'' magazine, before released as a hardcover album in 1983.

==Story==

In ''The Black Box'', [[Fantasio]] opened the mysterious box that Jefferson, Boris and Karl left them (see ''[[La ceinture du grand froid]]''), and discovers plans within for thousands of inventions. When he tests one in company of [[Spirou (character)|Spirou]], it draws the attention of Commander Alexander, who retrieves the box with Kalloway. Spirou must exchange the black box with them for Fantasio's release.
Thanks to Jefferson, they discover that the gangsters are hiding in a stronghold in the Sahara, where they are protected by natives. Spirou and Fantasio travel there and succeed in taking the box back from Alexander and Kalloway, while making themselves pass for dead.
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==References==
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* [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/auteurs1/cauvin.htm Cauvin publications in ''Spirou''] and [http://bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/auteurs1/broca.htm Nic Broca publications in ''Spirou''] BDoubliées {{in lang|fr}}
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070224181830/http://www.spirou.com/spirou/albums.shtml Spirou official site album index] {{in lang|fr}}

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