“I often think about it. It’s 20 pages, half a comic book,” Anne Goscinny told German weekly “Der Spiegel”.

Typewritten by Rene Goscinny, the script titled “Asterix at the Circus” was found in the family archives, looked after by Anne.

But she said completing the story without her father would be a “very complicated” task.

“We’d have to get a lot of people around the table, immerse ourselves in the story and find (Rene’s) voice again,” she said, adding, “It’s as if there were a hole in a painting by Goya.

“One day we’ll give it a try, it would be an extraordinary adventure,” she added.

Asterix, defender of the last Gaulish village holding out against the Roman empire, was created in 1959 by Rene Goscinny, who died in 1977, and Albert Uderzo, who died last year.

The comic books have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide.

Before the “Asterix” series, there was no history of comics having a scriptwriter.