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Adventures of Tintin Series
The Adventures of Tintin is a series of comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Rémi (1907–1983), who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. By the time of the centenary of Hergé‘s birth in 1907, Tintin had been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies.
The first nine volumes were roughly twice as many pages as the later volumes. They were cut and redrawn when they were colorized. The order of publication was as follows. The date in parenthesis is the date of the colored version.
- Tintin in the Land of the Soviets 1930, 1998, (2017)
- Tintin in the Congo 1931, (1946) 1982 British edition, 1991, 2002
- Tintin in America 1932, (1945) 1978 revised for American publication, 1979, 2004
- Cigars of the Pharaoh 1934, (1955)
- The Blue Lotus 1936, (1946) 1983 British publication, 2006
- The Broken Ear 1937, (1943) 1975 Casterman, 1975 Methuen
- The Black Island 1938, (1943), 1966 revised edition for British publication, 2006
- King Ottokar’s Sceptre 1939, (1947) 1958, 2005
- The Crab with the Golden Claws 1941, (1943) 1958
All albums after this were originally published in color:
- The Shooting Star (1942) 1961
- The Secret of the Unicorn (1943) 1959
- Red Rackham’s Treasure (1944) 1959
- The Seven Crystal Balls (1948) 1962
- Prisoners of the Sun (1949)
- Land of Black Gold (1950, 1971 revised edition for British publication) 1959
- Destination Moon (1953) 1959
- Explorers on the Moon (1954) 1959, 1992
- The Calculus Affair (1956) 1960
- The Red Sea Sharks (1958) 1960
- Tintin in Tibet (1960) 1962
- Tintin and the Golden Fleece (1962 based on the film) 1965
- The Castafiore Emerald (1963)
- Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1965 based on the film) 1967
- Flight 714 to Sydney (1968)
- Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972 based on the film) 1973
- Tintin and the Picaros (1976)
- Tintin and Alph-Art (2004 unfinished at the time of Herge’s death) 2013
Books in the Adventures of Tintin series:
The Crab with the Golden Claws (1958)
King Ottokar’s Sceptre (1958)
Destination Moon (1959)
Explorers on the Moon (1959)
Land of Black Gold (1959)
Red Rackham’s Treasure (1959)
The Secret of the Unicorn (1959)
The Calculus Affair (1960)
The Red Sea Sharks (1960)
The Shooting Star (1961)
A meteoroid grounds in the polar sea and Tintin and his companions are off to claim it.
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The Seven Crystal Balls (1962)
Tintin in Tibet (1962)
Tintin and Haddock travel to the Himalayas to search for his friend who is reported lost after a plane crash.
The Castafiore Emerald (1963)
Tintin and the Golden Fleece (1965)
Based on the film in which Tintin and Captain Haddock search for treasure.
Author(s):
André Barret
Rémo Forlani
Hergé
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
The Black Island (1966)
Tintin and the Blue Oranges (1967)
Based on the film in which Tintin and his friends journey to Spain to aid a scientist in danger.
Author(s):
André Barret
Hergé
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Flight 714 (1968)
Tintin and his companions are hijacked to a desert island in the Celebes where they are rescued by extraterrestrials.
Cigars of the Pharaoh (1971)
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1973)
Based on the animated film in which Tintin and Haddock try to protect Professor Calculus from a band of art thieves. It is illustrated with stills from the film.
Author(s):
Hergé
Michel Regnier
Illustrator(s):
Photographs