It ' s more that it ' s very difficult to hit a bullet with another bullet , which is what would need to happen . <| sep |> Smurf comicsMain article The Smurfs comicsSince the first appearance of the Smurfs in Johan et Pirlouit in 1958 , 30 Smurf comics have been created , 16 of them by Peyo , the others by his studio . Originally , the Smurf stories appeared in Spirou magazine with reprints in many different magazines , but after Peyo left the publisher Dupuis , many comics were first published in dedicated Smurf magazines , which existed in French , Dutch , German and Turkish . A number of short stories and one page gags have been collected into comic books next to the regular series of 30 including a newly released Smurfs comics enitiled Les Schtroumpfs de L ' ordre The Order Law of the Smurfs . English translations have been published in the U . S . by the graphic novel publisher Papercutz as well as a mini series published by Marvel Comics in the mid 1980 s .