The Adventures of Tintin and Snowy

Albums

The Adventures of Tintin have been declined in 24 albums. The last one has never been finished and Hergé died before.

Here is a resume of each album:

Album	Title	First edition	Resume
	Tintin au Pays des Soviets	1930	Tintin is sent to Russia by his employer. Even before he leaves, the Russians know he is coming and a Russian secret agent travels on the same train as him. The spy tries to kill Tintin right from the start by putting a bomb on the train. Tintin miraculously survived the attack and can continue his journey to Russia. Once in Russia, Tintin discovers the misery in which people live in and, what the communist government does and all the propaganda. During all his investigation, he will be the target of the russian secret services that want him dead. He finally manages to go back to Brussels alive, and with the help of Snowy.
	Tintin in the Congo	1931	Tintin and Snowy leave Antwerp on a ship for the Belgian Congo. Snowy has several "accidents" on the ship but they finally arrive safely. There, Tintin rents a Ford Model T and hire a guide named Coco. During his trip, Tintin hunts a lot of wild animals. Later on Tintin finds that his car has been stolen by a man. They recover the car but the man escapes. Tintin, Snowy and Coco find their way to a village. However, the man who stole the car joins forces with the village doctor and unsucessfully tries to hang Tintin above a river full of crocodiles but Tintin is rescued by a Belgian missionary. Tintin and Snowy are taken to a mission station where the thief tries again to kill Tintin and in their final struggle, it is the thief who is finally eaten by crocodiles. Tintin finds a letter who was given to the thief with instructions to kill him. The letter is signed A.C., which stands for Al Capone, who is operating a diamond smuggling ring in the Congo. Tintin reveals the operation and the gang is captured.
	Tintin in America	1932	Tintin is sent to Chicago to clean up the city’s criminals. He is captured by gangsters several times and soon meets Capone himself. Although Tintin manages to capture Capone for a short time, the policeman he calls to help arrest the gangsters does not believe his story and tries to capture him instead. After several attempts on his life, Tintin meets Capone's rival, the devious Bobby Smiles, who heads the Gangsters Syndicate of Chicago. Tintin spends much time trying to capture Smiles, pursuing him to the Midwestern town of Reddog City. There he is captured by a Blackfoot Indian tribe (fooled by Smiles) and discovers oil ! This unintentionally causes the expulsion of the tribe, as unscrupulous oil corporation take over their land, depriving them of any share in the oil profits. Finally, Tintin captures Smiles and ships him back to the Chicago Police in a crate. Tintin is invited to a banquet held in his honor where he is kidnapped by Chicago gangsters who have decided to wreak revenge upon him. They try to kill Tintin, unsuccessfully. Tintin finally overpowers them and later leads the police to their headquarters. A grateful Chicago holds a parade for Tintin, after which he returns to Europe.
	Cigars of the Pharaoh	1934	Tintin and Snowy are on a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea. They meet an Egyptologist who owns a papyrus that he believes will lead him to the undiscovered tomb of Pharaoh Kih-Oskh. He invites Tintin to accompany him. During the cruise, Tintin has also an unpleasant encounter with Roberto Rastapopoulos, a wealthy businessman. He also meets for the first time, Thomson and Thompson who accuse him of smuggling opium and cocaine they have found in his cabin. Locked on the ship, Tintin manages to escape and meets the Egyptologist in Port Said, Egypt. They discover the tomb of Kih-Oskh. On a nearby sand dune, Tintin discovers a cigar bearing the symbol of the pharaoh. When he returns to the tomb, the Egyptologist had disappeared. Entering the tomb, Tintin and Snowy find many Egyptologists mummies and 2 empty spaces for him and Snowy. Tintin enters another room where opium vapor puts him to sleep. After a number of adventures, Tintin finally discovers that the cigars bearing the symbol of Pharaoh Ki-Oskh contain heroin and that he is facing a drugs cartel. The story is continued in the next album, The Blue Lotus.
	The Blue Lotus	1936	Tintin is enjoying a vacation with the Maharaja of Gaipajama in India. One day, a Chinese man comes to meet him but he is hit by a dart dipped in a poison that causes madness. He just has the time to tell him that someone going by the name of Mitsuhirato wants to meet him in Shangai. Tintin travels to Shanghai in China, where he is, of course, awaited by the assassins of the opium consortium. However two attempts on Tintin's life are foiled by a young Chinese stranger who arranges to meet Tintin in a secluded area. When Tintin arrives at the rendezvous, he discovers the young man has been struck by the poison of madness. Tintin meets Mitsuhirato, a Japanese businessman, who urges him to return to India to protect his friend, the Maharadja. Persuaded, Tintin is on his way back to India when he is knocked inconscious and taken ashore with Snowy. He wakes up outside Shangai, in the home of Wang Chen Yee, the leader of a resistance movement called The Sons of the Dragon, dedicated to the fight against opium. He discovers that Wang's son is the young man who saved his life two times. Wang reveals to Tintin that Mitsuhirato is their chief opponent : a Japanese secret agant and a drug smuggler. Tintin tracks down Mitsuhirato and manages to obtain the poison of madness. On his way back,he rescues a young boy, Tchang, from drowning in he Yangtze river. They become friends and Tchang rescues Tintin a couple of times. They both return to Shangai to discover that Wang and his family have been kidnapped by Mitsuhirato. Tintin and Snowy manage to find the Wangs and rescue them. They also discover that the boss of the opium cartel is revealed to be Rastapopoulos. Thanks to Tintin, an antidote is found to the poison of madness and Wang's son can be cured. Tchang is finally adopted by the Wang family and Tintin heads back to Europe.
	The Broken Ear	1937	An idol that originally belonged to a Native American nation in South America is stolen from the museum in Brussels. The following day, it is back in the museum, along with a note apologizing for the inconvenience caused and saying that the reason for the theft had been a bet. Tintin, who is among the reporters looking into the story, realizes that the replacement is a fake, the distinction being a broken ear on the original. Tintin makes a few researches and suspects recently deceased wood carver Balthazar to be the one who duplicated the idol and that he was murdered. Tintin tries to obtain the man's parrot in order to get a clue to the killer's identity and soon discovers that a pair of South Americans, Alonzo and Ramon, are also on the trail of the idol. They even make attempts on Tintin's life. The parrot eventually repeats the last words of his late owner, naming a man called Rodrigo Tortilla as his killer. All three embark on a ship to South Amercia where Tortilla is going. Alonzo and Ramon murder Tortilla. It was he who stole the idol from the museum and murdered Balthazar after getting him to produce the copy that Tortilla placed in the museum. Among his luggage is yet another replica of the stolen idol. Tintin, who was also on the ship in disguise, has Alonzo and Ramon arrested as they dock in the main port of the republic of San Theodoros. But when soldiers arrive on board to take them away, they are led by a colonel who knows Ramon and Alonzo and, once ashore, lets them go. He then helps them to lure Tintin to shore where he is framed for terrorism and sentenced to death. In San Theodoros General Alcazar and his rebels are fighting against the ruling General Tapioca. Just as Tintin finds himself at the gun tips of the firing squad, General Alcazar's rebels save him. After many adventures in San Theodoros and in the jungle, Tintin and Snowy have reached a dead end so they return home, where they hear the news that San Theodoros has made peace with Nuevo-Rico. Then Tintin is surprised to find copies of the idol being sold in numerous shops. He goes to the factory that produces them and meet Balthazar's brother, who had found the idol among his late brother's affairs. However he has sold the original idol to a rich man called Samuel Goldbarr, who has left for America. Using a plane Tintin manages to catch up with the ship, only to find that Alonzo and Ramon are already aboard and have finally got hold of the idol. During the confrontation the idol falls and breaks, revealing a diamond. All three of them try to save it, but it falls into the ocean and they fall into the ocean after it. Tintin is saved by the crew. However, Alonso Alonzo and Ramon Bada drown.
	The Black Island	1938	While walking in the Belgian countryside Tintin sees an aircraft making an emergency landing. He goes to help and notices that it does not have a registration number on it. As he approaches the plane he is shot by the pilot. Tintin recovers at a hospital where police detectives Thomson and Thompson inform him that a similar plane has crashed in a field in Sussex, England. Tintin decides to investigate for himself. Tintin takes a train from Brussels to the coast in order to board the ferry from Ostend to Dover, England. During the journey he is framed for the assault and theft of a fellow passenger (who is in fact part of the mysterious criminal gang Tintin has inadvertently stumbled upon). Thompson and Thomson arrest Tintin, but he escapes by handcuffing them to each other while they are asleep. Arriving in England, Tintin is kidnapped by the same men who framed him. They take him to a clifftop, intending to make him jump off it, but Tintin escapes with Snowy's help. Tintin’s investigations lead him to Dr. J.W. Müller who is part of a gang of money counterfeiters, led by Puschov, the so-called victim on the train. Tintin's pursuit of Müller results in a plane crash in rural Scotland, where a friendly farmer gives him a kilt to wear. He visits the pub in the coastal village of Kiltoch, where he is told strange stories about the Black Island, where an evil beast is said to roam, killing humans. He buys a boat from a villager and heads for the island. There he is almost killed by a gorilla called Ranko. Stranded on the island, Tintin discovers that it is the hideout of the gang of forgers led by Puschov and Müller. Tintin calls the police on their radio signalling device. After a desperate holding-out action (in which Ranko's arm is broken) the gang is captured, and Tintin returns to mainland Kiltoch, but the media and press do not stay very long after Ranko appears. The gang is jailed and the now obedient Ranko is placed in a Glasgow zoo.
	King Ottokar’s Sceptre	1939	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 under surveillance 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 as the professor seems to have stopped smoking and miraculously recovered his sight. While flying over Syldavia, the pilot of the plane who opens a trap door and Tintin drops out, landing in a haywagon. Tintin has a hunch that a plot is afoot 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 abdicate, a tradition established after a past king used the sceptre to defeat a would-be assassin. Tintin succeeds in warning the reigning King Muskar XII, despite the efforts of the conspirators. He and the King rush to the royal treasure room to find Alembick, the royal photographer and some guards unconscious and the sceptre missing. Tintin researches the Sceptre but in the meantime, the Interior Minister informs the King that rumours have been spreading that the sceptre has been stolen and that there have been riots against local Bordurian businesses, acts which would justify a Bordurian takeover of the country.The King is about to abdicate when Snowy runs in with the sceptre. Further inquiries by the authorities reveal that, Professor Alembick is one of a pair of identical twins: Hector Alembick was kidnapped and replaced with his brother Alfred who left for Syldavia in his place.
	The Crab with the Golden Claws	1941	Tintin is informed by the Thompsons of a case involving the ramblings of a drunken man, later killed, found with a scrap of paper from what appears to be a tin of crab-meat with the word Karaboudjan scrawled on it. His subsequent investigation and the kidnapping of a Japanese man interested in talking to him leads Tintin to a ship also called the Karaboudjan, where he is abducted by a syndicate of criminals who have been hiding opium in the crab tins. Escaping from his locked room, Tintin encounters Captain Haddock, an alcoholic who is manipulated by his first mate, Allan, and is unaware of his crew's criminal activities. Escaping the ship in a lifeboat in an attempt to reach Spain, they are attacked by a seaplane. They hijack the plane and tie up the pilots, but a storm and Haddock's drunken behaviour causes them to crash-land in the Sahara. After trekking across the desert, Tintin and 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 intoxicated by the fumes from wine barrels breached in a shootout with the villains. Upon sobering up, Tintin discovers the necklace with the Crab with the Golden Claws on the now-subdued owner of the wine cellar, Omar Ben Salaad, and realizes that he is the leader of the drug cartel. After capturing Allan, the gang is put behind bars.
	The Shooting Star	1942	One night Tintin is out walking with his dog Snowy. The evening is particularly hot. Tintin then notices an extra star in the Great Bear. When he reaches home, he calls the Observatory. They say that they have the phenomenon under observation and hang up. Tintin wonders why it is so hot, and opens the window. He sees that the star is getting bigger every minute. He walks to the Observatory, and, after some trouble, gets inside. There he meets the director of the observatory, who explains that the extra star is a vast ball of fire making it way towards Earth, which will cause the end of the world tomorrow morning. In the event, however, the shooting star does not collide with the Earth, but passes by it. A piece of it, a meteorite, lands in the arctic ocean, causing an earthquake that lasts a mere few seconds. Tintin, however, realises that the meteor could be protruding above the surface of the water,and the Professor is persuaded to organise an expedition led by himself to find new metals and to retrieve a sample for further research. However, another team has already set out, backed by a financier from Sao Rico by the name of Bohlwinkel, aboard the polar expedition ship Peary. The expedition becomes a race to be the first to land on the meteor. Bohlwinkel attempts to sabotage the Professor's expedition several times without success. Tintin finally uses the ship's seaplane to parachute on to the meteor and plant the expedition flag,beating the crew of the Peary by seconds. Tintin makes camp while the ship's over-exerted engines are repaired. The next day he discovers the remarkable properties of the unknow metal on the meteorite. Then a sudden seaquake shakes the meteor to its core; the young reporter and Snowy retrieve a rock sample and jump to safety as the rock sinks into the sea.
	The Secret of the Unicorn	1943	Thomson and Thompson - who, during the course of the story, eventually lose their wallets by the dozens to a thief - look for the culprit at the Old Street Market where they meet Tintin. Tintin buys a boat model of an old ship for Captain Haddock, but, as he does, two men try to haggle it off him. The first is a Mr. Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, and the second is later revealed to be named Barnaby. Sakharine calls on Tintin at his flat later, seeking to convince him -unsuccessfully- to sell his ship, but leaves his card. A little while later, the mainmast is broken by Snowy, and Tintin repairs it. When the Captain visits Tintin, he sees the ship and reacts with astonishment. Haddock takes Tintin back to his apartment and shows him a portrait of one of his ancestors, Sir Francis Haddock, the captain of a 17th century naval vessel. In its background is the very same ship, called "the Unicorn". When Tintin and the Captain return to Tintin's flat, they find that the model boat has been stolen. Tintin visits Sakharine, accusing him of having stolen it. While he discovers an identical ship in Sakharine's collection, it is evidently a different one, for in this case, the mast has not been broken. The ship carries the letters "UNICORN" on the back as well. When Tintin returns home, he finds that his flat has been ransacked, and while cleaning up he finds a mysterious parchment. He realizes that it must have been hidden within the mainmast broken by Snowy, and subsequently rolled out onto the floor. He guesses that the parchement holds the clue to finding treasure and rushes back to the Captain's flat. The Captain, meanwhile, has taken out some heirlooms that had belonged to his great ancestor: a journal which tells of how in 1676 he defeated the pirates led by Red Rackham. Haddock eagerly reads it out aloud to Tintin, sometimes getting a bit carried away while describing the battle scenes. The boat model which was stolen is just one of three constructed by Sir Francis for his three sons. Each one holds a parchment which, when placed together, will give the Red Rackham's treasure's location. Tintin, Haddock and with the help of Thomson and Thompson manage to find the missing parchments which were stolen by a kleptomaniac specializing in wallets. The sequel, Red Rackham's Treasure, continues the story.
	Red Rackham’s Treasure	1944	Tintin and the Captain hire a fishing trawler, the Sirius, to search for the treasure. As the crew prepare for the search, their plans are discovered and publicized by the press, forcing Tintin and Haddock to deal with numerous strangers claiming to be Rackham's descendants and insisting on a share of the treasure. Another petitioner is Professor Cuthbert Calculus, an eccentric and hard of hearing inventor who offers the use of a special shark-shaped, electrically powered one-man submarine to help search for the sunken ship without being bothered by the numerous sharks in the area. The treasure hunters turn him down and later set off for the trip. Shortly after the departure, Tintin and Haddock discover that Calculus has stowed away on board. The professor has stashed the unassembled parts of his submarine in the hold, removing the Captain's crates of whisky in the process. Despite initially threatening to throw Calculus into the hold on bread and water, Haddock grudgingly decides to keep him along for the trip. The coordinates given in the parchment place the island in the Caribbean. The ship reaches an unknown and uninhabited island, where Tintin and his friends believe the treasure to be buried. Calculus's submarine proves useful in searching for the sunken Unicorn, while the actual examination of the wreck itself is performed with a hardhat diving suit. While facing complications like shark attacks, they discover a gold bejeweled cross, a strongbox of old documents, the figurehead of the ship and, to Captain Haddock's delight, a large supply of vintage Jamaican rum. Time passes. Although there are further dives to the wreck, they are unable to find the treasure itself and they go home disappointed. Calculus's further examination of the parchment documents in the chest that they retrieved allows him to determine that Captain Haddock is heir to the large estate of Marlinspike Hall. Upon this discovery, Tintin insists that Haddock must purchase the estate, which is up for auction. After purchasing the Hall, Tintin and Captain Haddock explore the cellars of the main house. They find a statue of Saint John which is holding a globe, and Tintin finds the location of the island where Sir Francis Haddock was exiled. He accidentally discovers it to be a trigger button to open the globe. The treasure was hidden inside the globe and the statue was holding a cross above it, just as the map indicated.
	The Seven Crystal Balls	1948	On board a train, Tintin reads a newspaper talking about seven explorers who have now come home from a two-year trip finding information about the Andes. A mysterious illness is afflicting the members of the archaeological expedition recently returned from the Andes, where they had unearthed the tomb of the Inca, Rascar Capac. One by one, the expedition members fall into a mysterious coma. The only clue is shards of crystal found near each victim, which are fragments of shattered crystal balls. Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus go to stay with Calculus's old friend, and expedition member, the ebullient Professor Tarragon, who is keeping Rascar Capac's mummy in his house. Despite the police protection, Tarragon is also struck by the mysterious comatose. The plot thickens even further, however, when Calculus, taking a stroll around Professor Tarragon's house, discovers a striking gold bracelet and puts it on. He disappears mysteriously. While searching the grounds for Calculus, Tintin and Haddock discover the attacker had eluded them by taking refuge in a tree and deduce that he then jumped Calculus. While looking for Calculus, Tintin and the Captain are fired upon by an unseen gunman who escapes in a black car, having kidnapped Calculus. The alarm is raised and the police set up road blocks, but the kidnappers switch cars and slip through the net. Tintin and Haddock pursue the abductors to La Rochelle, where they discover that Calculus is on board a ship called the Pachacamac, which is bound for Peru, and resolve to meet his ship there. The story is continued in Prisoners of the Sun.
	Prisoners of the Sun	1949	Tintin and Captain Haddock arrive in Peru to look for Professor Calculus, following the events in The Seven Crystal Balls, which ended with Calculus being kidnapped for putting on the bracelet of the mummified Inca. Although Tintin and Haddock intercept the ship carrying Calculus, the Pachacamac, near Callao, they are unable to rescue him, and they set off on the trail of the Quechua-speaking natives who have taken him. It leads them to the mountain town of Jauga, where a train is sabotaged in an attempt to kill them. They find both the authorities and the locals extremely unwilling to help them track Calculus' kidnappers because of the wrath of the Inca. Tintin then encounters a young Indian boy named Zorrino, whom he protects from two bullying men of white descent. Following that, a mysterious Indian gives him a medallion, telling him it will save him from danger. Soon after, Zorrino offers to take them to the Temple of the Sun, where he claims their friend is being held. The Temple lies deep in the Andes, and the journey there is long and eventful - it involves hindrance from natives and Captain Haddock being terrorised by the local wildlife. Finally they come upon the Temple of the Sun - and stumble right into a group of Inca who have survived until modern-day times. Zorrino is saved from harm when Tintin gives him the medallion (the Indian who had given it to him reveals himself as one of the Incan high priests, and explains that he gave it to Tintin because he was moved by his effort to protect Zorrino from abuse), but Tintin and Haddock are sentenced to death for their sacrilegious intrusion and end up on the same pyre as Calculus. Tintin has, however, chosen the hour of their death to coincide with a solar eclipse, and the terrified Inca believe he can command their God, the Sun. Afterwards, the leader of the Incas tells them the "magic liquid" mentioned in the preceding volume was a coca-derivative used to hypnotize the explorers who had excavated Rascar Capac's tomb as punishment for their sacrilege. Tintin convinces him to break the curse, and after swearing on their own accord to keep the colony's existence secret, they return to Europe with a gift of Incan gold and jewels, while Zorrino decides to stay with the Incas.
	Land of Black Gold	1950	Car engines are spontaneously exploding all over the country. The reason is narrowed down to the petrol used in the cars which is tampered in some way to cause an explosion. As a result most form of transport from cars to airlines are cutting down on fuel usage, thus affecting the economy. Furthermore political tensions are heightening, leading the world to the brink of war, and Captain Haddock is mobilised in anticipation of an outbreak of hostilities. Following different leads, Tintin and Thomson and Thompson set off for Khemed (a fictional country in the Middle East) on board a petrol tanker. Upon arrival, the three are framed and arrested by the authorities under various charges. The Thompsons are cleared and released, but Tintin is kidnapped by Arab insurgents. In the course of his adventures, Tintin re-encounters an old enemy, Dr. J.W. Müller, whom he sees sabotaging an oil pipeline. He reunites with the Thompsons and eventually arrives in Wadesdah, the capital of Khemed, where he comes across his old friend, the Portuguese merchant Senhor Oliveira da Figueira. When the local Emir Ben Kalish Ezab's young son, Prince Abdullah, is kidnapped, Tintin suspects that Müller (who is masquerading as an archaeologist under the name of Professor Smith) is responsible. He pursues Müller in hopes of rescuing the prince and in the process discovers the doctor to be the agent of a foreign power responsible for the tampering of the fuel supplies, having invented a type of chemical in tablet form that increases the explosive power of oil by a significant amount. The Thom(p)son twins find the tablets and swallow them, thinking them to be aspirin, causing them to belch continuously, and grow long hair and beards that change colour. After analysing the tablets, Professor Calculus comes up with remedies for the Thompsons and a means of countering the affected oil supplies, though, while carrying out his tests, he half-destroys Haddock's Marlinspike Hall.
	Destination Moon	1953	Tintin's friend Professor Calculus has been secretly commissioned by the Syldavian government to build a rocket ship that will fly from the Earth to the Moon. Tintin and Captain Haddock agree to join the expedition, even though Captain Haddock shows considerable reluctance. Upon arriving in Syldavia, they are taken to the Sprodj Atomic Research Centre, called simply "the Centre", headed by Mr. Baxter. They are escorted by the "ZEPO" (Zekrett Politzs), a special security force charged with protecting the Centre from outside threats. While working for Syldavia Calculus is assisted by engineer Frank Wolff, who works in the Centre, and accompanies Tintin and Haddock around the facility. Prof. Calculus reveals that the Syldavian government invited nuclear physicists from other countries to work at the Centre, which was created four years earlier when large uranium deposits were discovered in the area. The Centre is entirely dedicated to peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Calculus heads the Centre's astronautics department, since this is his primary area of expertise. While in the Centre, they soon come to realize the purpose of the ZEPO: They are to block a foreign power that is also interested in the project. On one particular night, spies are parachuted into areas surrounding the facility and the Centre is placed on high alert. An unmanned subscale prototype of the rocket, the "X-FLR6", resembling a V-2 rocket,is launched on a circumlunar mission to photograph the far side of the Moon, as well as test Professor Calculus's revolutionary nuclear rocket engine. The rocket successfully orbits the moon, but is then intercepted by the foreign power, giving the research team no other option than to destroy their rocket. As the compound is heavily secured, there must have been a spy who leaked information, but no suspects are found. Despite this setback, preparations are made for the moon trip and the equipment is tested. While testing one of the space suits, Captain Haddock becomes frustrated and accuses Calculus of "acting the goat", causing Calculus to go into a fit of anger. He leads them out of the complex and to the site of the moon rocket which in near completion. While taking Haddock and Tintin through the rocket's various levels, he falls down a ladder and suffers temporary memory loss. Haddock caringly attempts helps him recover. He then angrily says he will not be "acting the goat" again and engaging in flamboyant behaviour in an attempt to arouse Calculus, who then recovers in a fit of rage, and chases Haddock around the room, but is later grateful for being cured. Preparations are made for a manned flight and a full-scale rocket is built. Finally, on June 3, 1952, at 1:34 a.m., the rocket takes off for the Moon with Tintin, Haddock, Calculus and Wolff aboard. The story continues in Explorers on the Moon.
	Explorers on the Moon	1954	The journey to the Moon is not uneventful. Haddock has smuggled some whisky aboard in hollowed-out books, becomes drunk, and engages in an unscheduled spacewalk that results in im briefly becoming a satellite of an asteroid. Additionally, Thomson and Thompson, who have mistaken the time of the launch suffer a relapse of the condition caused by their ingestion of the energy-multiplying substance Formula Fourteen. As a result, they sprout thick hair that grows at lightning speed and frequently changes color. The Captain, having no other immediate duty, volunteers to cut their hair. The spacecraft lands safely in the Hipparchus Crater, and by agreement among the crew, Tintin is the first to set foot on the Moon and the first human to do so. Everyone then gets a chance to walk about; even the Captain enjoys it, but upon seeing the Earth, expresses fear about whether they will survive to see it again. The crew soon starts unpacking the scientific payload telescopes, cameras, and a battery-powered tank. Calculus decides to reduce the total stay on the lunar surface from fourteen Earth days to six in order to conserve oxygen. Three days later, the Captain, Wolff and Tintin take the battery-powered tank to explore some stalactite caves in the direction of the Ptolemaeus Crater; Snowy slips on an ice sheet, damaging his two-way radio and there is a minor drama in rescuing him, but they return to the rocket safely. A sudden turn of events occurs when the spy plot broached in Destination Moon is revealed. A secret agent from a foreign power, the brutish and autocratic Colonel Jorgen, whom Tintin had previously encountered and defeated in King Ottokar's Sceptre, has been hiding in the rocket since it was launched eight days previously (having been smuggled aboard along with technical equipment). When Tintin goes below to fetch some supplies for lunch, Jorgen knocks him out and binds him, then tries to seize control of the rocket, which he plans to fly back to his own country, leaving the others marooned on the Moon. Outside, from the moon tank, the Captain, Calculus, Thomson and Thompson watch, horrified, as the rocket blasts off, shuts down, and, for one horrible moment, appears to be on the verge of collapsing before coming to rest right-side up. Tintin has freed himself. Due to the strain on the oxygen supplies, the crew decides to abandon some of the equipment, rather than disassembling it and packing it up, and to cut short the lunar stay. The repair work is completed slightly ahead of schedule after three days, and the rocket cleared for lift-off. Halfway back to Earth, Jorgen escapes after overpowering the detectives, who had gotten the idea into their heads that handcuffs would be more secure than the Captain's knots. When Wolff sees that Jorgen intends to shoot Tintin and the others, he tries to dissuade him; the gun goes off accidentally, and Jorgen dies instantly. The crew have no choice but to leave the body to float around in space. However, even without Jorgen, now there isn't enough oxygen to make it home. Overcome with guilt, Wolff opens the airlock and lets himself out into space to save the others while they are sleeping, leaving behind a moving farewell note. The rest of the group continues towards Earth as their oxygen runs low. Everyone falls unconscious. Tintin faints but mission control sounds a piercing signal by radio, which awakens him, allowing him to set the rocket up to land. After the ship lands, firemen break the door open, finding everyone unconscious. On the tarmac, everyone is revived, except for the Captain. A doctor is giving a prostrate Haddock oxygen, but fears that his heart is worn out because "It seems he was a great whisky drinker." Suddenly roused by the sound of the word "whisky", Captain Haddock wakes up with a start.
	The Calculus Affair	1956	Tintin and Captain Haddock are on a stroll in the countryside around Marlinspike, but are suddenly caught out by an approaching thunderstorm and rush back to the manor. Events take a mysterious turn during the storm. Inside Marlinspike, several items of glass within the house break for no apparent reason. Professor Calculus, who has been working in a small house on the estate that serves as his laboratory, returns to the manor with bullet holes in his hat. Calculus, somewhat unconcerned of the whole series of events, leaves the following day to attend a conference on nuclear physics in Geneva, Switzerland. When he is gone, things grow calmer. Tintin suspects that the strange events may have been connected with Calculus, and suggests to Haddock that they have a look inside his laboratory. They find a strange sonic device and are surprised by a Bordurian wearing a trenchcoat and a mask. The intruder escapes after punching and knocking out Haddock. However, Snowy bites off the trenchcoat's pocket, and two items fall out: a key and a box of balcanic cigarettes with the name of the Hotel Cornavin (where Calculus is staying in Geneva) scrawled onto it. Realizing that Calculus is in danger, Tintin and Haddock decide to follow him to Switzerland. In Geneva, Tintin and Haddock miss Calculus at his hotel by seconds, slowed down by two men dressed in the same trenchcoats as the man in the lab. They track Calculus to Nyon, at the home of Professor Topolino, an expert in ultrasonics. Calculus's umbrella is there but he is not and Topolino is found bound and gagged in his own cellar. Topolino claims that it was Calculus's doing but after being shown his photograph he admits that the Calculus he met was not the one Tintin and Haddock know. They conclude that an impostor impersonated Calculus, imprisoned Topolino in his cellar and then kidnapped the real Calculus upon his arrival. Tintin and Haddock conclude that the sonic device that they found in the laboratory was responsible for the breakages at Marlinspike. However, the breaking of glass is just the beginning. Calculus also discovered how to turn the device into a weapon which could destroy metal, including buildings, tanks, etc. Concerned of the consequences of such a thing, he had decided to talk it over with Topolino, whom he consulted by letter while developing the device. But Topolino's manservant, a Bordurian named Boris, learned of this and informed his country's intelligence service. It soon dawns on them that rival teams of agents from both Syldavia and Borduria have knowledge of the device and its potential. Abducted at first by Bordurians, Calculus is dramatically attacked by Syldavian agents in spite of Tintin and Haddock's efforts to rescue him.
	The Red Sea Sharks	1958	The Red Sea Sharks is an adventure in which Tintin investigates the supporters of Sheikh Bab El Ehr's overthrow of Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab, the Emir of Khemed. After watching a movie, Tintin and Captain Haddock round a corner and bump into General Alcazar, who drops his wallet. Tintin attempts to return it, but the hotel he claimed to be staying at has never heard of him, and when Tintin calls a phone number found in his wallet, the man refuses to talk to him. When Tintin and Haddock return home, they discover that the Emir's bratty, incorrigibly spoiled son Abdullah has been sent there for protection, along with a colorful entourage of servants and dignitaries who have established a bedouin-bivouac in the great hall of Marlinspike Hall. Abdullah proceeds to cause chaos at Marlinspike with his practical jokes. Thomson and Thompson inform Tintin that they know of his meeting with Alcazar due to their investigation of an arms dealer called Dawson. They then tell him the name of the real hotel where the General is staying. At the hotel, Tintin and Haddock see Alcazar talking with Dawson, whom Tintin recognises as an enemy he met in The Blue Lotus. Haddock returns the wallet to Alcazar, while Tintin follows Dawson and overhears him discussing how successful his sale of de Havilland Mosquitoes were in starting a coup d'état in Khemed. Tintin decides to go to Khemed and rescue the emir, who has been overthrown by Sheikh Bab El Ehr. Meanwhile, Dawson, realizing that Tintin is once again meddling in his affairs, resolves to take drastic measures. At Wadesdah Airport in Khemed, Tintin and Haddock are turned back by customs, while someone (presumably an agent of Dawson) plants a bomb on the plane to "take care of them". Tintin and Haddock manage to escape and finds his friend Oliveira da Figueira for help. He helps them escape the city and join the Emir's hideout. The Emir tells them about the ongoing slave trade run by the Marquis di Gorgonzola, an international businessman with whom the Emir had a tiff several months ago. The Marquis uses the pilgrimage to Mecca to capture and enslave Africa Muslim travellers. Tintin and Haddock leave for the Red Sea coast and board a boat for Mecca to investigate. They are attacked by the Mosquitoes again and end up shipwrecked aboard a raft. They are then picked up by di Gorgonzola's yacht which happens to pass by, but di Gorgonzola isolates them from his guests and offloads them the next night to the SS Ramona, a tramp steamer. Unbeknownst to Tintin and Haddock, the Ramona is one of di Gorgonzola's own ships, used in the slave trade. A fire breaks out on the Ramona and the crew abandons ship. Tintin and Haddock manage to put out the fire and free a number of black african men who were intented to be sold as slaves. Tintin finds a slip of paper in the radio room with an order to deliver "coke", and is puzzled. In shipping, "coke" would normally refer to a coal-derived fuel, but none is being carried. They are then approached by a dhow and take aboard an Arab who wishes to inspect the coke, puzzling Haddock, who claims they have none. The man then turns about and starts examining the physical strength of one of the Africans. With the nature of the term coke, a codename for slaves, clear to him now, Haddock furiously confronts the Arab. Di Gorgonzola (who is actually Rastapopoulos) finds out from the Arab that Haddock has taken control of the ship, and sends a submarine to attack them. Tintin spots the submarine by accident just prior to attack. Haddock manages to outmaneuver a number of torpedoes and they are finally rescued by the USS Los Angeles, a US cruiser.
	Tintin in Tibet	1960	While on holiday in a resort in Vargèse with Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus, Tintin reads about a plane crash in the Gosain Than Massif in the Himalayas. That night, Tintin has a vivid dream that his young Chinese friend Chang Chong-Chen survived a plane crash, and awakes with a violent start. The next morning, he reads in the paper that Chang was aboard the plane that crashed in Tibet. Believing that his dream was a telepathic vision, Tintin travels to Kathmandu with Snowy, followed by a skeptical Captain Haddock. They meet with a sherpa named Tharkey, and accompanied by some porters, they travel from Nepal to the crash site in Tibet. Upon entering Tibet, they discover footprints in the snow that Tharkey claims belong to the yeti. They reach the crash site and Tintin sets off with Snowy to try and trace Chang's steps, and find a cave where Chang carved his name on a rock, proving that he survived the crash. They wait outside until they see the yeti leave the cave. Tintin ventures inside with a camera to look for Chang, having been told by the Captain to take a photograph of the yeti if he can. Inside the cave, Tintin finally finds Chang, who is feverish and shaking. The yeti returns to the cave before Haddock can warn Tintin, and he reacts with anger upon seeing Tintin taking Chang away. He reaches toward Tintin, setting off the flash bulb of the camera, and the yeti, frightened by the light, runs out of the cave, bowling over the Captain, who has come to save Tintin. The two of them carry Chang back to the village and he tells the story of how he survived, and how the yeti took care of him.
	The Castafiore Emerald	1963	Captain Haddock and Tintin are walking through the countryside when they come across a Roma community camped in a garbage dump. They investigate and upon learning that the community chose that site on account of being forbidden by the police to use any other location, the Captain invites them to his grounds of his estate, Marlinspike, over the objections of his butler Nestor. Shortly afterwards, Bianca Castafiore, famous opera Diva and scourge of the Captain, decides to invite herself to Marlinspike for a holiday. Upon hearing of Bianca's impending visit, Haddock rushes to pack for a trip to Italy, figuring that now would be a good time to visit, because he had always avoided visiting the country precisely to avoid Bianca. In his haste, Haddock misses a step ans sprains his ankle. Bianca has brought her luggage, her slippers, her pyjamas, her entourage and a parrot for the Captain. A few days later, Castafiore's most prized emerald goes missing, and all eyes turn to the Roma. But they are vindicated when, in a deliberately anti-climactic dénouement, the culprit turns out to have been a magpie.
	Flight 714 to Sydney	1968	Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus are on their way to Sydney for an international conference on space exploration. While their flight makes a refueling stop in Jakarta's Kemayoran Airport, they unexpectedly meet their old friend Piotr Skut (The Red Sea Sharks), who is now the chief pilot for eccentric millionaire Laszlo Carreidas. A short time earlier, the Captain had erroneously taken the somewhat disheveled Carreidas for a tramp and surreptitiously slipped him a five-dollar bill, which later is taken by the oblivious Professor Calculus, making the millionaire laugh for the first time in years. Unable to politely refuse Carreidas's offer of a ride on his prototype private jet, Tintin and his friends join the millionaire on the way to Sydney. Carreidas plays Battleships with the Captain, defeating him repeatedly by cheating with a hidden closed-circuit television camera and monitor. nbeknownst to Carreidas and the others, Spalding, Carreidas' secretary and two of the pilots, Boehm and Colombani, have been recruited to hijack the plane and bring it to a deserted volcanic island called Pulau-Pulau Bompa in the Lesser Sunda Islands. After a rough landing, our friends are escorted out of the plane. It is shown that the mastermind of the plot is none other than the evil Rastapopoulos and he wants to take Carreidas' fortune by extracting his Swiss bank account number. With the help of Snowy, Tintin and his friends manage to escape the bunker in which they are being imprisoned and find the bunker where Carreidas is held prisoner. Tintin captures Rastapopulos and his team and escorts them to lower ground, intending to use them as hostages but they manage to escape. Led by a telepathic "voice" Tintin is hearing, the protagonists discover a hidden entrance to a statue-filled cave. Knowing that they are in danger, they decide to enter the cave and they discover a large hallway, leading to the inside of the volcano. They enter the volcano's core by triggering a hidden mechanism. Rastapopulos and his cohorts are not far behind, but they fail to find out how to open the secret passage. Instead, they use explosives to make their own entrance. Penetrating deeper into the volcano, Tintin and his friends meet a strange man, Mik Kanrokitoff, a writer for magazine Space Week, who wears a transmitter on his ear and speaks with a heavy Russian accent, who reveals to them that his is the guiding voice that they have followed, having received it into their minds via the transmitter, which is an extraterrestrial device designed to utilize telepathy. Because the explosion set off by Rastapopoulos and his men has triggered a volcanic eruption, it becomes imperative that all the characters leave the island. Once Tintin and his friends find their way out of the volcano, Kanrokitoff puts them all under his hypnosis. He uses his transmitter to summon a flying saucer piloted by the extraterrestrials, whereupon the hypnotised group climb up a retractable ladder and board the saucer, narrowly escaping the volcano's dramatic eruption.
	Tintin and the Picaros	1976	Tintin hears in the news that Bianca Castafiore, her maid Irma, pianist Igor Wagner, and Thomson and Thompson have been imprisoned in San Theodoros for allegedly attempting to overthrow the military dictatorship of General Tapioca, who has yet again deposed Tintin's old friend, General Alcazar. Tintin, Calculus, and Haddock soon are accused themselves and, travelling to San Theodoros to clear their names, find themselves caught in a trap laid by their old enemy, Colonel Sponsz, who has been sent by the East Bloc nation of Borduria to assist Tapioca. Tintin enlists Alcazar's help in freeing his friends, but upon arrival at his jungle headquarters, finds that Alcazar's men have become corrupt drunkards since Tapioca started dropping copious quantities of alcohol near their camp. Fortunately, Calculus has invented a pill that makes alcohol disgusting to anyone who ingests it. Tintin offers to use the pill to cure the Picaros of their alcoholism if Alcazar agrees to refrain from killing Tapioca and his men. Arrives the musical troupe the Jolly Follies, lost in the jungle, who intend to perform at the upcoming carnival in San Theodoros. Alcazar, with a little advice from Tintin, launches an assault on Tapioca's palace during the carnival by 'borrowing' the troupe's costumes and sneaking his men into the capital.
	Tintin and Alphart	1986	In 1976, a few months after the publication of Tintin and the Picaros, Hergé told a journalist that he was contemplating the next adventure of Tintin — setting an entire story in an airport departure lounge. This idea was eventually dropped, and in 1978, he decided to set the story in the world of modern art. During later years Hergé had grown more and more interested in modern art, even attempting it a few times himself as a hobby; so he chose to incorporate his love of avant-garde artwork into the new story. Hergé was inspired by the Ferdinand Legros and Elmyr de Hory affair, and incorporated a second element, a new age sect and a phoney guru. He planned to cast Rastapopoulos as the villain, but dropped the idea in 1980 when he introduced the alphabet art element. Still, an idea exists that the villain Ramó Nash or his accomplice Enddane Akass may be Rastapopoulous in yet another of his disguises.

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