![]() ![]() Hergé grew up an enthusiastic Boy Scout and published his first cartoon work in a scouting magazine – Tintin, the eternal boy-man, is the ultimate Boy Scout. ![]() ![]() Although many are mundane adventure stories, a number of the Tintin stories do venture into fantastic material – the building and launching a Moon rocket in Destination Moon (1953) and Explorers on the Moon (1954) the quest for a fallen meteorite with strange powers in The Shooting Star (1942) an Inca curse in The Seven Crystal Balls (1948) and Prisoners of the Sun (1949) the Yeti as a background character in Tintin in Tibet (1960) and the Erich von Daniken-influenced story of alien visitors in Flight 714 (1968). It was here that Tintin gained his greatest popularity, the books selling millions of copies the world over in numerous translations. After World War II, these were republished in colour and new titles added in a series of books that eventually spanned 23 volumes. Hergé originally created Tintin as serialised stories in a weekly strip in the Catholic newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle beginning with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929-30). Tintin was the creation of the Belgian writer-illustrator Georges Remi (1907-83), better known as Hergé (after the French pronunciation of his initials reversed). The Tintin comic-books were a treasured part of my childhood. ![]()
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