Collects three books from the comic series "Asterix," in which Asterix and Obelix travel to Helvetia for the antidote to a poison, foil a Roman housing development plot, and try to fetch Caesar's laurel wreath for a stew for Chief Vitalstatistix.
On their way to the annual druids' conference, Asterix, Obelix, and Getafix encounter the Goths who intend to invade Gaul and Rome by kidnapping Getafix and immediately Asterix and Obelix rush to the rescue.
A comic-style story in which Asterix, a Gaul warrior, finds himself in a predicament when the druid who makes the potion that gives Asterix his superhuman strength, is hit by a flying monolith and forgets the formula just before a scheduled bout with Vitalstatistix.
After Obelix drinks a potion that turns him to stone, Asterix sets out to find a cure, and along the way he finds himself on the continent of Atlantis.
Presents English translations of fourteen short, cartoon-style stories, originally published in French, featuring the characters of Asterix and Obelix, friends in ancient Gaul.
Asterix finds an abandoned baby boy outside his hut, and even though he and Obelix have more experience fighting with the Romans, the two Gaulish warriors decide to raise the boy.
