Editing Spike and Suzy (section)

=== Settings ===
In the earliest stories, Willy Vandersteen used fictional countries like "Chokowakije" ("Chocolaslovakia") and "Amoras" (a tropical island, "Hoboken", actually a real town in Belgium, in the English-language version). He dropped the use of those after a few stories, although some later stories revisit Amoras.

Most of the current adventures of Spike and Suzy happen in real countries all over the world, with [[Belgium]] (their home country) as main focus for many stories.

While in the early stories large distances were usually traveled using the fictitious ''Gyronef'', an experimental helicopter devised by professor Barabas, starting from the 1960s all air travel is provided by the Dutch national airline [[KLM]], making it an early and prominent example of product placement in European comics. Vandersteen chose KLM over the Belgian national airline [[SABENA]] because of his friendship with Ron Winderink, PR manager at KLM.<ref name="GVA">{{cite web |url=http://www.gva.be/dossiers/-s/sn/sus.asp |title=Van SABENA tot SN Brussels Airlines |access-date=27 February 2007 |date=4 November 1997 |publisher=GVA |language=nl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928020757/http://www.gva.be/dossiers/-s/sn/sus.asp |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>