Gaston Lagaffe #9 Le cas Lagaffe
Cover of the Belgian edition
Date	1971
Series	Gaston Lagaffe
Publisher	Dupuis
Creative team
Writers	Franquin
Artists	Franquin
Original publication
Published in	Spirou
Date of publication	1971
Language	French
ISBN	978-2800100913
Chronology
Preceded by	Lagaffe nous gâte, 1970
Followed by	Le géant de la gaffe, 1972

Le cas Lagaffe, written and drawn by Franquin, is the ninth album of the original Gaston Lagaffe series. It is composed of 52 strips previously published in Spirou. It was published in 1971 by Dupuis.

Story

Two new Gaston's pets appear: the cat, the laughing gull,^[1] plus already presented the mouse Cheese and the fish Bubulle. These new pets cause most of the gags of the album.

Background

The number of pages is 54, whereas previous albums consisted of 59.