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J GRAPHIC NOVEL HER
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (1974), Edition: First Edition, 62 pages
Description
Tintin travels to the kingdom of Syldavia to stop a villainous gang from stealing the royal scepter and overthrowing the government.
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LibraryThing member Michael.Rimmer
A Ruritanian Romance in the style of The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope, this one sees Tintin and Snowy enmeshed in the political machinations of a small Balkan country which is riven by internal strife and coveted by a militaristic neighbouring country.
According to the Tintin website, Hergéthough it's not giving too much away to reveal that our young hero foils the plot! .
Hergé's well into his stride now and the adventures rattle along. The usual car and plane chases take Tintin across Europe at an incredible pace, but Hergé does remember to make his hero feel hunger pangs after being out in the mountains all night: nice touches of realism like this help to balance out the amazing, but necessary and expected, coincidences that crop up. And how come Thomson and Thompson are the only detectives anybody calls in to investigate anything, anywhere, despite their obvious ineptitude? Wacky Belgian humour!!
We get our first introduction to opera diva, Bianca Castafiore, and I'm looking forward to Captain Haddock's first appearance in the next story, The Crab with the Golden Claws.
According to the Tintin website, Hergé
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partly based this story on the Nazi annexation of Austria, Hergé's well into his stride now and the adventures rattle along. The usual car and plane chases take Tintin across Europe at an incredible pace, but Hergé does remember to make his hero feel hunger pangs after being out in the mountains all night: nice touches of realism like this help to balance out the amazing, but necessary and expected, coincidences that crop up. And how come Thomson and Thompson are the only detectives anybody calls in to investigate anything, anywhere, despite their obvious ineptitude? Wacky Belgian humour!!
We get our first introduction to opera diva, Bianca Castafiore, and I'm looking forward to Captain Haddock's first appearance in the next story, The Crab with the Golden Claws.
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Fun story. Major plot holes, of course - what gave Tintin the idea that this whole complicated plot had anything to do with the sceptre? And he got suspicious and too easily lulled again. Tintin's acrobatics and Thomson and Thompson's pratfalls are rather spectacular in this one. Just about
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everyone is in on the plot - who the heck did they find to make the arrests, since every police chief seems to be on the wrong side? Oh, and I think this is Tintin's first meeting with Bianca Castafiore - an amusing one, of course. Very standard Tintin - enjoyable in itself, don't try for logic. Show Less
LibraryThing member SchusReadingStars
good action book
ISBN
0316358312 / 9780316358316