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The adventure is published as a book in This is the only adventure in which the readers actually see Tintin preparing an article for his newspaper. Tintin in the Congo Tintin travels to Africa. Diamond production in the Congo is at the heart of the story. Tintin sets off for the New World to tackle Al Capone and other assorted villains. Tintin in America is the best-selling Tintin book of all time.

Cigars of the Pharaoh A drug trafficking ring has Tintin investigating and globetrotting from Egypt to India. Thomson and Thompson make an appearance, and their role will become more important as the series continues. The opium trade is the evil that our young reporter fights, enlisting the help of his friend Chang. Herge plumbs different aspects of 20th-century Latin America: Revolution, smuggling, coups and arms dealing. The Black Island Tintin has an excellent British adventure.

The evil Dr. Bell, of Scottish descent, had ties to the Nazis and lived in Germany. Bell tried to destabilize Russia by flooding the Soviets with counterfeit rubles. La Signora Bianca Castafiore makes a screamingly good entrance into the adventures of Tintin. A chase for strange tins of crabmeat ensues. A race to retrieve it first, begins. The Shooting Star was the first book in the Tintin series to be printed directly to colour.

A treasure hunt is on and we discover a fearsome pirate of old, Red Rackham. The Seven Crystal Balls Seven scientists are stricken with a mysterious illness that puts them in a deep state of lethargy. Calculus has unwittingly committed sacrilege and awaits death. The February issue of National Geographic magazine was helpful to Herge in putting the story together and providing inspiration, with its pictorial of the Sacsayhuaman and Machu Picchu sites.

Land of Black Gold Car engines the world over explode: an oil crisis before its time. The early versions of this book were set in the British Mandate of Palestine.

In , parts of the story were redone, setting the tale in the fictional state of Khemed. In The Secret of the Unicorn , Tintin's passport states his birth year as , which was the year of his first appearance in The Land of the Soviets , estimating his age to be 15, while the official Tintin website states his age as between 16— Tintin is well-educated, intelligent, and selfless with morals that cannot be compromised.

He is efficient and responsible, does not smoke and rarely drinks, and is athletic he is seen doing yoga various times throughout the series, and does stretches and warm-ups in Prisoners of the Sun. He is a skilled driver of almost any vehicle, including tanks, motorcycles, cars, helicopters, and speedboats. The final unfinished adventure, Tintin and Alph-Art , saw Tintin being led out of his cell to be killed, although it is very unlikely that he dies at the end of the story.

Assouline described the character as "obviously celibate, excessively virtuous, chivalrous, brave, a defender of the weak and oppressed, never looks for trouble but always finds it; he is resourceful, takes chances, is discreet, and is a nonsmoker. Michael Farr deemed Tintin to be an intrepid young man of high moral standing, with whom his audience can identify. His rather neutral personality permits a balanced reflection of the evil, folly, and foolhardiness that surrounds him, allowing the reader to assume Tintin's position within the story rather than merely following the adventures of a strong protagonist.

To the other characters, Tintin is honest, decent, compassionate, and kind. The reporter does have vices, becoming too tipsy before facing the firing squad in The Broken Ear or too angry when informing Captain Haddock that he nearly cost them their lives in Explorers on the Moon. However, as Michael Farr observed, Tintin has "tremendous spirit" and, in Tintin in Tibet , was appropriately given the name Great Heart. By turns, Tintin is innocent, politically crusading, escapist, and finally cynical.

Tintin is shown as a well-rounded yet open-ended character, noting that his rather neutral personality, odd given the evil, folly and foolhardiness which he encounters.

Tintin has a tendency to tie and gag people, is often shown enjoying doing this. Unlike other characters such as Captain Haddock or Professor Calculus, Tintin has no discernible backstory. His companions encounter old friends such as Captain Chester or Hercules Tarragon , yet Tintin only meets friends or enemies whom he met in previous adventures. At the end of Tintin and Alph-Art he is to be turned into a Cesar.

Although is seems very unlikely that he dies, his fate is still left unknown. Although Tintin's physique has had various changes overtime, there are a three predominant factors of him that have always remained ever since his debut. Tintin has been depicted as a young male with short ginger hair accompanied by a signature quiff and has black dot eyes like many other characters.

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