rough draft by Florence Fanshawe

MY MAGAZINE ON TINTIN By Florence Fanshawe

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About Hergé Georges Prosper Remi - better known as Hergé- was a Belgium comic writer and artist. He was born on 22nd May 1907 and died on 3 March 1983. His best known work is the twenty-three books known as The Adventures of Tintin. He wrote and illustrated all these books from 1929 until his death in 1983. He also wrote other well known comic book series such as Quick and Flupke (19301940) and Jo, Zette and Jocko (1936- 1957). He was born into a middle-class family in Etterbeek, Brussels and was very interested in scouting in his early life. He started producing drawings for Belgian Scouting magazines. In 1927 he began working for a newspaper called Le XX Siècle, where he got the pen name ‘Hergé’, based upon the French pronunciation of "RG", his initials reversed (har-je). It was here, in 1929, that he began making the first of the Adventures of Tintin, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. Hergé has become one of the most famous Belgians worldwide and Tintin is still an international success and he is a national hero in Belgian. Hergé’s Museum was opened in Louvain-la-Neuve on 2nd June 2009.

Tintin books!!! Hergé’s comics on Tintin were a great success. It took him approximately a year to write each book!!! All the books are 62 pages long (They were written in French.) Order of books and when they were written and their original French name: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets - Tintin au pays des Soviets- 1929- 1930 Tintin in the Congo - Tintin au Congo- 1930- 1931 Tintin in America - Tintin en Amérique- 1931- 1932 Cigars of the Pharaoh - Les Cigares du Pharaon- 1932-1934 The Blue Lotus - Le Lotus bleu- 1934-1935 The Broken Ear - L'Oreille cassée 1935-1937 The Black Island - L'ile noire- 1937-1938 King Ottokar's Sceptre - Le Sceptre d'Ottokar- 1938-1939 The Crab with the Golden Claws - Le Crabe aux pinces d'or- 1940-1941 The Shooting Star - L'Etoile mystérieuse- 1941-1942 The Secret of the Unicorn - Le Secret de la Licorne- 1942-1943 Red Rackham's Treasure - Le Trésor de Rackam le Rouge- 1943 The Seven Crystal Balls - Les Sept boules de cristal- 1943-1946 Prisoners of the Sun - Le Temple du soleil- 1946-1948 Land of Black Gold - Tintin au pays de l'or noir- 1948-1950 Destination Moon - Objectif Lune- 1950-1953 Explorers on the Moon - On a marché sur la Lune 1950-1953 The Calculus Affair - L'Affaire Tournesol- 1954-1956 The Red Sea Sharks - Coke en stock- 1956-1958 Tintin in Tibet - Tintin au Tibet- 1958-1959 The Castafiore Emerald - Les Bijoux de la Castafiore- 1961-1962 Flight 714 - Vol 714 pour Sydney- 1966-1967 Tintin and the Picaros - Tintin et les Picaros 1975-1976 Tintin and Alph-Art - (Tintin et l'Alph-Art): Unfinished work, published after Hergé’s death in 1986, and republished with more material in 2004.

Tintin Characters!!! Tintin: Tintin is the main character in The Adventures of Tintin comics, Tintin is a reporter and adventurer who travels around the world with his dog Snowy. He often says ‘great snakes’. Captain Haddock: Captain Archibald Haddock, is Tintin's best friend, a Merchant Marine Captain. Haddock was meant to be a weak and alcoholic character, but in later books he became more respectable and heroic, although he continues to drink rum, and whisky—his most noble act is in Tintin in Tibet, in which he offers to sacrifice his life to save Tintin. He can lose his temper easily and often says ‘blistering barnacles’. Professor Calculus: Professor Cuthbert Calculus is a scientist who invents many useful things used in the series, such as a shark-shaped submarine, the Moon rocket and an ultrasound weapon. Calculus first appeared in Red Rackham's Treasure, and was the end result of Hergé's long quest to find the ‘mad scientist’. He is deaf but he only likes to admit that he’s a little hard of hearing in one ear!! Snowy: Snowy (French is Milou) is a white Wire Fox Terrier and Tintin's four-legged companion who travels everywhere with him. The bond between Snowy and Tintin is very deep and they have saved each other from dangerous situations many times. Thomson and Thompson: Thomson and Thompson are detectives of Scotland Yard. The two of them are not related as they have different surnames, however they are referred as twins or brothers. In any case, the two detectives look like twins and can only be told apart by the shape of their moustaches (Thomson's moustache goes out a tiny bit on each side at the bottom). They are extremely clumsy and usually arrest the wrong character. In spite of this, they somehow get given important missions, such as ensuring security for the Syldavian space project or investigating arms dealing. Thomson often describes himself as "Thomson, without a 'p,' as in Venezuela!" and who often says, "To be precise.... Thompson describes himself as "Thompson with a 'P,' as in..." and then used words with either a silent "P," or when it’s put with other letters so it sounds like ‘F’ such as Philadelphia, psychology and so on. They are inseparable Bianca Castafiore: Bianca Castafiore is the ‘Milanese Nightingale’. Her first name means "white" (feminine) in Italian, and her surname is Italian for "chaste flower". She is an opera singer who is VERY loud and always gets captain Haddocks name wrong like ‘Captain Paddock’.

Tintin in the land of the Soviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (in French,

Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter du "Petit Vingtième", au pays des Soviets) was Hergé’s first book. It was tarted on 0 January 1929 and was finished 11 May 1930 - it took him a year. The story is about Tintin andSnowy, who travel, via Berlin, to the Soviet Union, to report back on the policies instituted by the government of Stalin and the Bolsheviks. However, an agent of the Soviet secret service, the OGPU, attempts to prevent Tintin from doing so, continuously setting traps to get rid of him. Despite this, Tintin is successful in discovering the secrets of the Bolsheviks and how they are stealing the food of the Soviet people, rigging elections and murdering opponents. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets was the only one of the 23 Tintin comics that Hergé did not redraw in a colour edition, leaving it in black and white. He allowed it into English in 1989.

Tintin in the Congo Tintin in the Congo (in French, Tintin au Congo) is the second comic book written from 1930 to 1931. Hergé later redrew it in colour for a new edition in 1946, and then made changes to one of the pages for it to be published again in 1975. Ordered by Hergé's boss, Abbé Norbert Wallez, who ran the Roman Catholic weekly newspaper, Le XXe Siècle, it was designed to encourage children to learn more about what Wallez felt were the good points of the Belgian occupation of the Congo. The story is about Tintin and Snowy, who travel to the Belgian Congo to report on the situation of the country there. Once in the central African nation, the two of them get into various adventures, including wild animals, angry natives, and American diamond smugglers under the employ of Al Capone. In the late 20th and 21st centuries the book came under criticism for Hergés racist drawings of the Congolese people. It has also been criticized for its pictures of big game hunting and the mass slaughter of African wildlife. Hergé himself was embarrassed by his work because of this, and he regretted it in later life. It is because of these comments that its publication in English was delayed until 1991.

Tintin in America Tintin in America (in French, Tintin en AmĂŠrique) is the third book in the series. Originally created in the Belgian children's newspaper supplement Le Petit VingtiĂ¨me between 3 September 1931 and 20 October 1932, it was then published in book form in 1932. The story is in the year 1931. Tintin is sent to Chicago, Illinois, to clean up the city's criminals. He is captured by gangsters several times, soon meeting Capone himself after he is dropped through a trapdoor in the street and knocked out by two thugs. Tintin then gags Al Capone and ties him up. However the policeman he calls to help arrest the gangsters does not believe his story and tries to capture him instead (Tintin's failure to capture Capone is because of the fact that Capone was still active and powerful when the comic strip was written). After several attempts on his life, Tintin meets Capone's rival, Bobby Smiles, who heads the Gangsters Syndicate of Chicago (GSC). Tintin spends much of the book trying to capture Smiles, he makes him have to go to the Midwestern town of Redskin City. There he is captured by a Blackfoot Indian tribe (fooled by Smiles into thinking Tintin is their enemy) (front cover), and discovers oil. Finally, Tintin captures Smiles, and ships him back to Chicago in a crate. It is a very exiting book and I recommend you read it!!

Cigars of the Cigars of the Pharaoh (French is Les Cigares du pharaon) is the fourth book. It was written 1932-1934. This is the one when HergĂŠ introduces Rastapopoulos and Thomson and Thompson. The black-and-white edition included three major scenes that were not included in the 1955 colour copy. They are: 1. Tintin explores the villains' underground lair, finding a room whose doors are activated by foot-panels. A swarm of cobras are released from a statue of Vishnu and he distracts them with a chocolate bar. He later comes across a pool filled with crocodiles. 2. When the Fakir escapes he announces that he has planted explosives which will go off in three minutes. The detectives force the door open with one of their canes, and the Maharajah counts the passing minutes, but when they get out they find that Snowy has put out the fuse. 3. Back at the palace Tintin sleeps with an upturned table between his bed and the window in order to avoid the Fakir's poisoned darts. However, the Fakir lets a cobra in through the window instead. Woken up, Snowy somehow puts on a gramophone record which charms the snake. The music also wakes up Tintin who shoots the reptile with his gun. It is then announced that the Maharajah's son has been kidnapped and Tintin and the twin detectives set off in pursuit in their pyjamas. Those are three scenes which were taken out of the book when colour copied.

The Blue Lotus The Blue Lotus (French is Le Lotus bleu), was first published in 1936. It is a sequel to Cigars of the Pharaoh, with Tintin continuing his struggle against a major gang of drug smugglers. The story also includes the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. The book is amongst the most well known of the entire Tintin series, and was the 18th greatest book on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century list. The title, Blue Lotus, refers to the name of an opium den, itself a reference to the blue lotus

The Broken Ear The Broken Ear (French is L'Oreille cassĂŠe) is the sixth book- featuring Tintin as the hero (again). First collected in book form in French in 1937, it was later redrawn and colour copied in 1943. It was written December 5th 1935 to February 25th 1937. The story is about when the a fetish gets stolen because it has a diamond inside it and then gets replaced with a fake. Tintin goes to many places to get it back and when he goes to the Arumbayas he finds the man who had stayed there for twenty years - who everyone thought was dead- and he retrieves the real fetish back home and it is stuck back together (the gangsters broke it to get the diamond but it falls into the ocean) and gets put in its rightful position in the museum.

The Black Island The Black Island (French is L'ﾃ四e Noire) is the seventh of The Tintin books. It was first published in the newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtiﾃｨme in the late 1930s and then in a black-and-white album. Two more versions of the story were published in 1943 and 1966. In France it was first published in 1937 in the magazine Coeurs Vaillants as Le Mystﾃｨre de l'avion Gris (The Mystery of the Grey Plane). The book is known for Snowy's repeated bad behavior and heroism. This is the only book in which Tintin really tells off Snowy. Snowy plays a major role in the plot also, both good and bad.

King Ottokar’s Sceptre King Ottokar's Sceptre (French is Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) is the eighth of The Tintin books. It was first made as a black-and-white comic strip in Le Petit Vingtième on 4 August 1938. A new colour version was drawn and published in 1947. The story is about when Tintin finds a lost briefcase and returns it to the owner, Professor Hector Alembick, who is a sigillographer, an expert on seals. He shows Tintin his collection of seals, including one which belonged to the Syldavian King Ottokar IV. Tintin then discovers that he and Alembick are getting stalked by some strange men. Tintin's flat is even bombed in an attempt to kill him. Suspecting a Syldavian connection, Tintin offers to accompany Alembick to Syldavia via Frankfurt and Prague for research. On the plane Tintin begins to suspect his companion. The Alembick travelling with him doesn't smoke and doesn't seem to need the spectacles he wears, while the Alembick he first met smoked constantly and had poor eyesight. When they are changing planes, Tintin fakes a fall and grabs Alembick's beard, thinking it is false and Alembick is an imposter. However, it is (for Alembick) painfully real. Tintin decides to let the matter drop - assuming that Alembick simply gave up smoking and is better at long distances than close-up - but then, while flying over Syldavia, it is the pilot of the plane who opens a trap door and Tintin drops out, landing in a hay wagon. Tintin thinks that the plot is to steal the sceptre of King Ottokar IV. In Syldavia, the reigning King must possess the sceptre to rule or he will be forced to retire, a tradition started after a past king used the sceptre to defeat a would-be assassin. Every year he rides in a parade during St. Vladimir's Day carrying it, while the people sing the national anthem. Tintin succeeds in warning the reigning King Muskar XII. He and the King rush to the royal treasure room to find Alembick, the royal photographer and some guards unconscious and the sceptre gone! Tintin's friends Thomson and Thompson are brought to investigate but their theory on how the sceptre was stolen — the thief throwing the sceptre through the iron bars over the window — proves to be inaccurate and painful for them. Later on, Tintin notices a spring cannon in a toy shop and this gives him the clue. Professor Alembick had asked for some photographs to be taken of the sceptre, but the camera was a spring cannon in disguise, which allowed him to 'shoot' the sceptre out of the castle through the window bars into a nearby forest. Searching the forest, Tintin spots the sceptre being found by agents of the neighbouring country, Borduria. Following them all the way to the border, he wrestles the sceptre from them. In the wallet of one of the thieves he discovers papers that show that the theft of the sceptre was just part of a major plan for a takeover of Syldavia by their long-time enemy, Borduria. Tintin then gives the sceptre to king Ottokar and discovers that professor Alembick was the real professor’s identical twin and that he had locked the real one in the cellar. King Ottokar continues to be king and Tintin gets a medal. When Thomson and Thompson cheer for Tintin their canes get caught on the chandelier and – smash - ouch!!

The Crab with the Golden Claws The Crab with the Golden Claws (French is Le Crabe aux pinces d'or) is the ninth of The Tintin books. It is also the first to feature Tintin's best friend, Captain Haddock. The story is about when Tintin is informed by the Thompsons of a case involving the drowning of a drunken man, found with a scrap of paper from what appears to be a tin of crab-meat with the word Karaboudjan written on it. His investigation and the kidnapping of a Japanese man interested in talking to him brings Tintin to a ship called the Karaboudjan, where he is taken by a gang of criminals who have been hiding opium in the crab tins. Tintin escapes from his locked room after Snowy chews through his ropes and Tintin knocks out a man sent to bring him food. He leaves him bound and gagged in the room. Tintin meets Captain Haddock, an alcoholic who is tricked by his first mate, Allan, and is unaware of his crew's criminal activities. Tintin and Captain Haddock escape the ship in a lifeboat in an attempt to reach Spain, they are attacked by a seaplane. They take the plane and tie up the pilots, but a storm and Haddock's drunken behaviour causes them to crash-land in the Sahara. After walking across the desert with no water, Tintin and Captain Haddock reach a Moroccan port, but the Captain is kidnapped by members of his old crew. Tintin tracks them down and saves the Captain, but they both become drunk by the fumes from wine barrels by the villains when actually aiming for them. After sobering up, Tintin discovers the necklace with the Crab with the Golden Claws on the owner of the wine cellar, Omar Ben Salaad, and realizes that he is the leader of the smuggling gang. After capturing Allan, the gang is put behind bars.

The Shooting Star

The Shooting Star (French is L'Étoile mystérieuse) is the tenth of The Tintin comics. The Shooting Star was first made in the newspaper Le Soir in black and white in 1941, and was then published in a colour copy in 1942. Here are six points that have been noticed in the story: 1. The atmosphere of doom that occupies the early part of the story very much conveys the feelings of the time, when World War II was still at its height. 2. When Phostle announces the discovery of Phostlite he decides to celebrate with a packet of bulls-eyes, a rather odd way of celebrating a discovery of this importance. As well as the humour, it may be a reflection on the fact that most foodstuffs were rationed during the war. 3. Thomson and Thompson only appear in one strip in this adventure, as they make their way to the docks to see the ‘Aurora’ off. Also in the same panel are ‘Quick & Flupke’, fans of Tintin (who had also appeared in the opening panel of ‘Tintin in the Congo’). 4. The Swedish expedition member Eric Björgenskjöld (seen on the right of the panel in which Professor Phostle is given the flag to plant on the meteorite) resembles a real person- Auguste Piccard, who was Hergé's inspiration for Professor Calculus.[2] 5. This book features a brief appearance of the ‘Sirius’ (in Captain Chester's scenes), which is later used as the expedition vessel in ‘Red Rackham's Treasure’. The version of ‘Sirius’ shown there looks somewhat different from its depiction in the later comic. Why? 6. Tintin, who had disapproved of Captain Haddock's drinking in The Crab with the Golden Claws, actually gets him to drink alcohol in order to make him more active - he would use the same tactic in The Red Sea Sharks and Tintin in Tibet.

The Secret of the Unicorn The Secret of the Unicorn (in French, Le Secret de la Licorne) is the eleventh Tintin book. Is the first part of a sequel and is continued by Red Rackham’s treasure. The Secret of the Unicorn was written from 11th June 1942 to 14th January 1943 in the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, before being published in a comic later that year. It was written at a time when Belgium was occupied by Nazi Germany, The Secret of the Unicorn is the first book in the Adventures of Tintin to avoid political themes, instead it only focuses on the adventure, and because of this it has been described as being the first book in Hergé's ‘middle’ period. It is also known for being one of only two books in the series set entirely in Belgium. The comic is about Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock, who discover a riddle left by Haddock's ancestor, the 17th century Sir Francis Haddock, which could take them to the hidden treasure of the pirate Red Rackham. In order to work out the riddle, Tintin and Captain Haddock must find three identical models of Sir Francis' ship, the Unicorn, but discovers that criminals are also after these model ships, and are willing to kill them in order to get the ships. Hergé researched the background to his story a lot, making sure that the different ships, buildings, and other features illustrated in it were based upon real life things. The Secret of the Unicorn was Hergé's favorite of his Tintin comics until he wrote Tintin in Tibet. The comic has been changed into various other things, including a radio series (1992), two animated television series, Belvision's Hergé's Adventures of Tintin (1960) and a film produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Steven Spielberg, The Adventures of Tintin - Secret of the Unicorn is coming out on 26th October 2011.

Red Rackham’s Treasure Red Rackham's Treasure (French is Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge) is the twelfth of The Tintin books and continues The Secret of the Unicorn, and is one of very few Tintin books to directly carry on the story of the title before. It is the comic which introduces the scientist Professor Cuthbert Calculus. It is the best-selling book in the Tintin series. It was written 19th February 1943- 23rd September 1943. Hergé wrote this comic the fastest. In order to fit in 62 pages, certain scenes of the original strip were taken out and some panels were cropped or made bigger. The speech bubbles and the fonts were made smaller and there were some changes in the text which, sometimes, calmed down the aggression of the characters - in the original strip, when talking to the ‘so-called’ descendants of Red Rackham, Captain Haddock announces that he fancies killing them all in combat and, once they have fled, Tintin approves of it. In the book Captain Haddock's words are changed to his feelings of the boiling blood of his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock, and Tintin makes no comment on his doings. In the newspaper strip, the sailor caps worn by the Thompsons had the name Redoutable (French for Ruthless). These were taken out in the book version.

The Seven Crystal Balls The Seven Crystal Balls (French is Les 7 boules de cristal) is the thirteenth of The Tintin books. Because this book is the thirteenth, Hergé purposefully made it unlucky for many people. This comic also is the first of a sequence. It is followed by Prisoners of the sun. It was first published in the Le Soir newspaper from December 1943 to September 1944 but was stopped threequarters of the way through when Belgium was freed from the occupation of the Germans at the end of World War II, Hergé and other members of the Le Soir were investigated for working for the enemy. The story was continued in Prisoners of the Sun in the new Tintin magazine in 1946. In the comic a South American native stalks a Westerner in his bedroom this had been used before by Hergé in the original blackand-white publication of The Broken Ear (though it’s not included in today’s edition) The two boys who hide a brick in a hat as a prank on Captain Haddock, were inspired by Hergé's Quick & Flupke. (Another pair of young troublemakers).

Prisoners of the sun Prisoners of the Sun (French is Le Temple du Soleil) is the fourteenth of The Tintin. It is a continuation of The Seven Crystal Balls. The two books were made into a 1969 film, Tintin and the Temple of the Sun by Belvision. It has been also made into two episodes of the 1990s television series The Adventures of Tintin, a video game, and a musical stage production. The plot of the book comes mainly from the 1912 novel by Gaston Leroux- The Bride of the Sun. Pachacamac, the name of the cargo ship and the Inca Sun god, is an ancient Peruvian temple where the story is set. The trick used by Tintin to fool the Inca into believing that he could control the Sun a was solar eclipse it was inspired by Christopher Columbus's account of his own encounters with Arawak Indians in Jamaica in the early 16th century. While Columbus claimed to have performed a similar trick, it would have been unlikely that the Inca, a place with experts in astronomy, would have been unaware of the true nature of an eclipse. In addition, in Mark Twain's - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Hank, the main character, avoids being burned at the stake in a similar way as Tintin. He remembers that on the day he is about to be burnt, a solar eclipse occurred, and because of this, he makes the members of King Arthur's court believe he can control the sun.

Land of Black Gold The French for Land of Black Gold is Tintin

au pays de l'or noir. It was first published in Le Petit VingtiĂ¨me from 1939 to 1940, but ended in midadventure. It was later redrawn, colourised and published in the Tintin magazine and in book form from 1948 to 1950. Both these versions were set in Palestine. In 1971 parts of the story were redrawn in order to set it in the state of Khemed. O'Connor, the sailor who tries to kill Snowy, claims to be from the Intelligence Service which in Europe is the way of referring to the British Secret Intelligence Service or MI6.

First copy of Land of Black Gold when it was in the Tintin Magazine.

Destination Moon Destination Moon (French is Objectif Lune) is the sixteenth of The Tintin comic books. Destination Moon is the first part of one of the three sequenced Tintin stories, the other part is Explorers on the Moon (On a marchĂŠ sur la Lune). It was written March 30th 1950 to September 7th 1950 and was then published April 4th 1952 to October 22nd 1952.

Explorers on the Moon Explorers on the Moon, published in 1954, is the seventeenth of The Adventures of Tintin series featuring Tintin as a hero (AGAIN). Its French title is, marché sur la Lune which means ‘We walked on the Moon’. It is the second of a two-part adventure which begun in Destination Moon.

The Calculus Affair The Calculus Affair (French is L'Affaire Tournesol) is the eighteenth of The Adventures of Tintin comic books. Many people think this as the greatest of the books. The Tintin website describes The Calculus Affair as the most ‘detectivelike’ of the whole series. The story is set in the 1950s, several months after Tintin and his friends have returned from the Moon.

The Calculus Affair introduces the character Jolyon Wagg, who then reappears in other later adventures.

This is also the first story to feature Cutts the Butcher. All calls to him end up at Marlinspike Hall where Nestor and Haddock are always getting endless orders for lamb chops and sausages. The driver of ‘Cutts butcher’ van also plays an important part in the story - he gives Calculus a lift to the village and unknowingly stops a kidnapping attempt. Colonel Sponsz also makes his first appearance In this comic. He is also mentioned in The Castafiore Emerald and attempts to get revenge in Tintin and the Picaros. In the crowd of day trippers camped outside the gates of Marlinspike, a caricature of Hergé himself can be spotted. The graphics include accurate land marks of Geneva, the Hotel Cornavin, the railway station and Geneva Cointrin International Airport. Many Tintin fans in later years, when at the Hotel Cornavin, would ask to stay in "Professor Calculus's room" (Room 122, fourth floor), which did not actually exist. To sort out the matter, Hergé sent the Hotel a cut-out of Tintin, explaining that it was not possible to stay in the Professor's room. The uniforms of the Bordurian police are based on those of Hungarian police of the time. (The Hungarian Uprising took place eight months after the making of the comic ended.) A famous part from this book involves Captain Haddock trying to get rid of a piece of sticking plaster that keeps coming back to him. This part was repeated in Flight 714, but it is limited to only three panels.

The Red Sea Sharks The Red Sea Sharks is the nineteenth of the Tintin books. Its original French title is Coke en stock (‘coke in stock’) a code name used by the villainous slave traders of the story for African slaves. The Red Sea Sharks brings together a large number of characters from previous Tintin adventures, going all the way back to Cigars of the Pharaoh: General Alcazar (The Broken Ear and The Seven Crystal Balls); Emir Ben Kalish Ezab and Abdullah (Land of Black Gold); Rastapopoulos (Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus); Oliveira da Figueira (Cigars of the Pharaoh and Land of Black Gold); Doctor Müller (The Black Island and Land of Black Gold); Dawson (The Blue Lotus); Allan Thompson (Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Crab with the Golden Claws); Bianca Castafiore (King Ottokar's Sceptre, The Seven Crystal Balls and The Calculus Affair); Jolyon Wagg (The Calculus Affair). Patrash Pasha (Cigars of the Pharaoh), Sheikh Bab El Ehr (Land of Black Gold) and General Tapioca (referred to in The Broken Ear and appearing later in Tintin and the Picaros) are all mentioned in the book but don't appear.

Tintin in Tibet Tintin in Tibet (in French - Tintin au Tibet) is the twentieth Tintin comic book. Made from September 1958 in the French magazine named after his creation, Le Journal de Tintin, it was then first published in book form in 1960. An "very personal book" for Hergé, who says it’s his favourite of the Tintin adventures, it was written and drawn by him at a time when he was suffering from terrible nightmares and a personal worrying over whether he should divorce his wife of three decades, Germaine Remi, for a younger woman with whom he had fallen in love, Fanny Vlaminck. The plot of the book revolves around Tintin who, aided by his faithful dog Snowy and friend Captain Haddock trek across the Himalayan mountains in Tibet in order to look for Tintin's friend Chang Chong-Chen whom the people claim had been killed in a plane crash flying over the mountains. Convinced that Chang has somehow survived, Tintin continues to search for him despite the odds, along the way encountering the giant Himalayan ape, the Yeti. Released after the publication of the previous Tintin adventure, The Red Sea Sharks (1958), Tintin in Tibet would be different from the other stories because many of the characters such as Thomson and Thompson and Cuthbert Calculus didn't feature in it, whilst at the same time it was the only Tintin adventure to not have Tintin against a bad guy. It has also been publicly praised by Tenzing Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama and prominent Tibetan spokesman, who awarded his own Truth of Light award to the book and to Hergé. Changes of Tintin in Tibet have been made into different things, including an animated television series, a radio series and a video game in the 1990s, and then for the theatre in the 2000s

The Castafiore Emerald The Castafiore Emerald (French is Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is the twentyfirst book in the Tintin series. The slowest moving of The Adventures of Tintin. Hergé wanted to see if he could maintain anything dramatic throughout sixty-two pages in which nothing much happens. Therefore it is a story without villains, guns or danger, but rich in comic red herrings, mistaken thieving, and colourful characters. Moreover, this is one of only two Tintin books in which the characters do not go to another part of the world (the other is The Secret of the Unicorn). It mentions a fashion designer named Tristan Bior, based upon Christian Dior. The incident of the unwelcome band playing outside Marlinspike was based on a similar experience of Hergé's who was also asked to serve them with drinks. To add insult to injury they gave a toast to "Spirou", Tintin's most direct rival. Hergé also gave a TV interview at around the time he was working on the story. There’s a continuous joke involving characters falling down the broken step in the Marlinspike household.

Flight 714 To Sydney Flight 714, was first published in 1968. It is the 22nd The Tintin comics. Its original French title is Vol 714 pour Sydney ("Flight 714 to Sydney"). The title refers to a flight that Tintin and his friends fail to catch, as they become involved in a plot to kidnap a miserable millionaire involving a private jet and a forgotten island. This book is unusual in the Tintin series because it includes aliens and other things like that. The main mystery is left unresolved at the end of the book. This comic has Poîtro Skut whom we met in the ‘Red Sea Sharks’.

Tintin and the Picaros Tintin and the Picaros (French is Tintin et les Picaros) is the twentythird and final completed book in the series. Notably, several characters have undergone changes: Tintin no longer enjoys adventuring and has abandoned his trademark plus fours; Captain Haddock can no longer drink alcohol; and General Alcazar's masculinity is ridiculed by his new dominant wife.