#The adventures of tintin book series#

A treasure hunt is on and we discover a fearsome pirate of old, Red Rackham. The Secret of the Unicorn (1943) Captain Haddock finds the diaries of his ancestor, the legendary Sir Francis Haddock.

#The adventures of tintin book series#

The Shooting Star was the first book in the Tintin series to be printed directly to colour. The Shooting Star (1942) A strange meteorite hits the Arctic Ocean, and Tintin sails there, Captain Haddock at the helm.

HaddockвЂ™s famous insults become the norm: Blistering barnacles Tintin! A chase for strange tins of crabmeat ensues. Captain Haddock makes his first appearance, becoming TintinвЂ™s irascible but lovable sidekick. The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941) Tintin is back to an exotic locale, North Africa. The La Scala songbird hits all the wrong notes luckily, TintinвЂ™s car windows are shatterproof. La Signora Bianca Castafiore makes a screamingly good entrance into the adventures of Tintin. King OttokarвЂ™s Sceptre (1939) Tintin saves the fictitious country of Syldavia from a fascist coup. Bell tried to destabilize Russia by flooding the Soviets with counterfeit rubles. Bell, of Scottish descent, had ties to the Nazis and lived in Germany. MullerвЂ™s character was inspired by the real life Georg Bell. Muller makes his first appearance, and it wonвЂ™t be his last. The Black Island (1938) Tintin has an excellent British adventure. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.