The Spirou et Fantasio album Le nid des Marsupilamis is mostly concerned with a documentary-within-the-comic about the life of a family of marsupilamis still living in the wild in Palombia. 'The Marsupilami' refers originally to the individual captured and then adopted by Spirou and Fantasio, which they never bothered to name because he was the only known specimen. Males say 'houba' most of the time, while females say 'houbii', which means the same thing as houba, but sounds more feminine. Female marsupilamis also have a totally different voice than the males. Males also have eyes that are not completely separate while females have two separate eyes. When the animal rebounds, he makes a funny noise: 'Boing'. Unlike the males, the females also walk on the tips of their toes. Female marsupilamis have a much shorter tail, but still long compared to real animals. Male marsupilamis have an incredibly long, strong, flexible and prehensile tail which can be used for almost anything. The marsupilami is a black-spotted yellow monkey-like creature. 4.2.2 Season 2 - Mon ami Marsupilami (2003).In 2007, Egmont's subsidiary Euro Books translated albums number 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 14 for the Indian market. Plans on releasing number 16 ended halfway through the translation process, due to bad sales. One album of Spirou and Fantasio featuring Marsupilami, number 15, was translated to English by Fantasy Flight Publishing in 1995, although it is currently out of print.

More than three million albums of the Marsupilami series are claimed to have been sold by Marsu Productions. Marsupilami's adventures had been translated to several languages, like Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese and several Scandinavian languages. The name is a portmanteau of the words marsupial, Pilou-Pilou (the French name for Eugene the Jeep, a character Franquin loved as a kid) and ami, French for friend. The asteroid 98494 Marsupilami is named in its honour.

Later, two animated shows featuring this character, as well as a Sega Genesis video game and a variety of other merchandise followed. In the late 1980s, the Marsupilami got its own successful spin-off series of comic albums, Marsupilami, written by Greg, Yann and Dugomier and drawn by Batem, launching the publishing house Marsu Productions. Since then it appeared regularly in the popular Belgian comic book series Spirou et Fantasio until Franquin stopped working on the series in 1968 and the character dropped out soon afterward.

Marsupilami is a fictional comic book species created by André Franquin, first published on 31 January 1952 in the magazine Spirou.

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