The Adventures of Tintin Comics by Herge (eBooks) - Tintin and the Picaros

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The Adventures of Tintin is a series of comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Herg¿. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. By the time of the centenary of Herg¿'s birth in 2007, Tintin had been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies.

The series first appeared in French on 10 January 1929 in Le Petit Vingti¿me, a youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingti¿me Si¿cle. The success of the series saw the serialised strips published in Belgium's leading newspaper Le Soir and spun into a successful Tintin magazine. In 1950, Herg¿ created Studios Herg¿, which produced the canonical series of twenty-four Tintin albums. The Adventures of Tintin have been adapted for radio, television, theatre, and film.

The series is set during a largely realistic 20th century. Its hero is Tintin, a young Belgian reporter and adventurer. He is aided by his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy. The other protagonists include brash and cynical Captain Haddock and the highly intelligent but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus. The supporting characters in the series are incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson and the opera diva Bianca Castafiore. The series contain many antagonists the primary one being Roberto Rastapopoulos.

The series has been admired for its clean, expressive drawings in Herg¿'s signature ligne claire ("clear line") style. Its well-researched plots straddle a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories feature slapstick humour, offset by dashes of sophisticated satire and political or cultural commentary.

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Tintin in Tibet
The plot of the book revolves around Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock and the sherpa Tharkey, their treks across the Himalayan mountains to the plateau of Tibet. In order to look for Tintin's friend Chang Chong-Chen whom the authorities claim had been killed in a plane crashover the mountains. Convinced that Chang has somehow survived, Tintin continues to search for him despite the odds...

King Ottokar's Sceptre

Tintin in Congo

Tintin in America
"Tintin in America" is the third volume of The Adventures of Tintin. Tintin and Snowy travel to the United States, where Tintin reports on the crime syndicate then active in Chicago, sees American Indians, and where he meets (and temporarily captures) Al Capone.

Tintin and the Picaros
Tintin and the Picaros is the twenty-third volume of The Adventures of Tintin series. Smelling a rat, Tintin at first refuses to become part of this new adventure, in which his friends Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus join General Alcazar and his small band of guerrillas, the Picaros, in the jungle of San Theodoros.

Tintin and the Alph Art

The Shooting Star
The Shooting Star is the tenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin. Tintin and Captain Haddock form a ship's crew and set off to the Arctic Ocean with an eccentric scientist on an international race to find an meteorite that has fallen to the Earth.

The Seven Crystal Balls
The Seven Crystal Balls is the thirteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin. The strange Incan mummy Rascar Capac seems to be at the centre of a mysterious illness, and an intriguing clue is discovered near each victim: shards of crystal balls. Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock set off to rescue the kidnapped Professor Calculus.

The Secret of the Unicorn

The Red Sea Sharks
The Red Sea Sharks is the nineteenth of "the Adventures of Tintin", featuring young reporter Tintin as the hero. The"Coke" referred to in the original French title is a codename used by the villainous antagonists of the story for African slaves. The Red Sea Sharks is notable for bringing together a large number of characters from previous Tintin adventures, going all the way back to Cigars of the Pharaoh.

The Castafiore Emerald

The Calculus Affair
The Calculus Affair is the eighteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, featuring young reporter Tintin as the hero. Professor Calculus has invented a machine capable of destroying objects with sound waves, which gets the attention of the Bordurian secret services, and it is up to Tintin and Captain Haddock to help him.

The Broken Ear
The Blue Lotus
The Blue Lotus is the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin. It is a sequel to Cigars of the Pharaoh, with Tintin continuing his struggle against a gang of drug smugglers. The story also highlights the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

The Black Island
The Black Island is the seventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin. Tintin travels to Great Britain, where he is framed for a theft, hunted by detectives Thomson and Thompson, and is on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters.

Red Rackham's Treasure
Red Rackham's Treasure is the twelfth volume of The Adventures of Tintin. Tintin and Captain Haddock believe that the treasure of pirate Red Rackham's is in the remains of the sunken ship, the Unicorn, and they launch an expedition to find it.

Prisoners of the Sun
Prisoners of the Sun is the fourteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin. Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock continue their efforts to rescue the kidnapped Professor Calculus , through Andean villages, mountains, and rain forests, before finding a hidden Inca civilization in the Temple of the Sun.

Land of the Black Gold
Land of the Black Gold is the fifteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin. War is looming in Europe, fueled by concerns over oil supplies. Tintin sets off for the Middle East, where he hopes to unmask those responsible for the plot.

Lake of Sharks

In the Land of the Soviets.

Flight 714
Flight 714, also known as Flight 714 to Sydney is the twenty-second volume of The Adventures of Tintin series. The title refers to a flight that Tintin and his friends fail to catch, as they become embroiled in a plot to kidnap an eccentric millionaire from a supersonic business jet on an Indonesian island. This album, first published in 1968, is unusual in the Tintin series for its science fiction and paranormal influences. The central mystery is essentially left unresolved.

Explorers on the Moon
Explorers on the Moon is the seventeenth of The Adventures of Tintin, featuring young reporter Tintin as the hero. Published in 1954, it carries on the story of the preceding title Destination Moon.

Destination Moon
Destination Moon is the sixteenth of The Adventures of Tintin. Tintin and Captain Haddock receive an invitation from Professor Calculus to come to Syldavia , where Calculus is in the country working on a top-secret project in a state-of-the-art secure government facility. It is the first part ofone of the four two-book stories in the Tintin series, the other part being Explorers on the Moon.

Cigars of the Pharouh
Cigars of the Pharaoh is the fourth volume of The Adventures of Tintin. Tintin and Snowy set off across Egypt and India on a hunt for an eccentric Egyptologist and the meaning behind strange cigars bearing a pharaoh¿s symbol.

The Crab with the Golden Claws