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The Adventures of Tintin - Red Rackham's Treasure / The Seven Crystal Balls / Prisoners of the Sun (3 Complete Adventures in 1 Volume, Vol. 4) (Hardcover)
by Herge
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Author: Herge
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub. in: April, 1995
ISBN: 0316358142
Pages: 192
Measurements: 9.3 x 6.6 x 0.7 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00127
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In 1929 Georges Remi, who worked under the pseudonym "Herge," was in charge of producing material for Le Petit Vingti me, a weekly supplement for the Catholic newspaper Le XXe Si cle. Herge decided to create his own comic strip, adopting the recent American innovation of using word balloons. On January 10, 1929, the first installment of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets was published in Le Petit Vingti me, telling the story of a young reporter named Tintin and his pet fox house Snowy (Milou) as they journeyed through the Soviet Union. The character of Tintin was modeled on Paul Remi, Georges' brother, who was an officer in the Belgian army. The result was one of the most universally beloved comic book characters in the history of the world, and this book is the fourth volume in a series that collects three of the Adventures of Tintin.
Target readers:
Kids aged up 6
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The Adventures of Tintin: The Crab With the Golden Claws / The Shooting Star / The Secret of the Unicorn (3 Complete Adventures in 1 Volume, Vol. 3)
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Hergé (pseudonym of Georges Remi), Belgian author and illustrator, created Tintin in 1929 and produced 24 volumes of the internationally famous bande dessinée by the time of his death. Known as the father of the modern European comic book, Hergé's impeccable style and superb use of color won him international acclaim after the Second World War, and the books have been translated from the original French into some 40 languages.
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Red Rackham's Treasure is mostly a pure adventure story, with Tintin using the small submarine and a deep sea diving suit to look for the treasure of the Unicorn. But there is still some detective work left to be done to decipher the final cryptic clues left by Sir Francis Haddock concerning the treasure's location. I still like Herge's two-part adventure that sent Tintin to the Moon, but this two-parter is not far behind. This is the last of the Tintin stories Herge wrote during World War II, and after this point we will definitely see his stories become much more allegorical in terms of post-War Europe. But this time around it is just Tintin, Snowy, and company out having fun beneath the deep blue sea.
Tintin's next two-part adventure is included here as well, beginning with The Seven Crystal Balls and concluding in Prisoners of the Sun. The story begins with Tintin on the train reading how the Sanders-Hardiman Ethnographic Expedition has returned a trip to Peru and Bolivia. The gentleman reading over Tintin's shoulder predicts trouble, drawing a parallel between what happened with the curse of King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb and these explorers violating the Inca's burial chambers. "What'd we say if the Egyptians or the Peruvians came over here and started digging up our kings?" asks the gentleman; what’d we say then, eh?" The comment is important, not only because tragedy does strike the seven members of the expedition as they fall prey to the Crystal Balls of the book's title, but because one of the themes that Herg develops in this particular epic is the respect Europeans should have for other cultures and ways of life.
This point has been implicit in many of Tintin's adventures, but it is a dominant element this time around. Assisted by his good friend Captain Haddock, Tintin becomes embroiled in the mystery, which takes a more personal turn when Professor Calculus is kidnapped. One interesting twist in this story is that Snowy actually ends up causing more trouble than the Thom(p)sons. There is a seriousness to what happens in The Seven Crytal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun that reflects a significant turning point in Herge's work, laying the ground work for his greatest tales, the two-part Moon story and "Tintin in Tibet."
Prisoners of the Sun concludes the epic Tintin adventure as the Sanders-Hardiman Ethnographic Expedition returns from a trip to Peru and Bolivia exploring Inca burial chambers when all seven members fell into comas induced by mysterious crystal balls. Tintin is already involved in the mystery when Professor Calculus is kidnapped and put aboard a steamer bound for Peru. With Snowy and Captain Haddock in tow, Tintin arrives in South America ready to rescue his friend and solve the mystery of the curse of the Incas. This involves a journey through the Andes Mountains and the jungles of the rain forest.
There is seriousness to what happens in The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun that reflects a significant turning point in Herge's work. The point that Europeans need to respect the cultures of other peoples is not only explicitly articulated by Tintin in these volumes, but is reinforced by the attention to details he puts into Tintin's visit to foreign lands. The ability of Herge to grow as a storyteller over the course of his distinguished career is impressive and these stories deserve the accolades they have received and the affection with which they have been embraced by generations of readers. I have always liked his foray into science fiction with the two-part Moon story, but Herge never did anything any better than this Incan epic. Prisoners of the Sun also has one of Herge's best running gags: no, not the perpetual confrontations between Captain Haddock and the llamas, but the attempt by the Thom(p)sons to use dowsing to help solve the case.
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Gagewyn (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
Tintin is the best comic ever and here you have three of his adventures together:
Red Rackham's Treasure - In the previous volume Tintin and Captain Haddock put together a 200 year old mystery left by Haddock's ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. Now they are off to recover Red Rackham's Treasure. But Max Bird, the antiques dealer turned criminal, has escaped from prison. Will he make an appearance?
The Seven Crystal Balls - Tintin and Captain Haddock go to a psychic show. There an Indian fakir puts his assistant into a trance. She foresees a mysterious illness striking a photographer on a recent expedition to recover Incan artifacts. One by one the researchers on the expedition fall into mysterious comas. Near each lies a shattered crystal ball...
Prisoners of the Sun - The previous installment of this story, The Seven Crystal Balls, left Tintin ad Captain Haddock in pursuit of kidnappers on a ship bound for Peru. In Peru Tintin catches a brief glimpse of the professor but is unable to rescue him. He and the captain continue the investigation. Local Indians are uncooperative, until Tintin rescues a local boy and finds sympathetic people who point him toward an Incan curse...
These are all good stories and have jokes for adults as well as children. Additionally The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun constitute a single longer story and have to be read together to know what is going on in each. So if you buy one then you will want to buy the other with it anyway. Be aware that these are printed on smaller size paper than the separately bound stories, which is more economical but makes them harder to read and doesn't do the graphics justice. This is an economic edition for families, but investing in the larger separately bound stories if possible.
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Volkan O. Unsal (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
Tintin has lived within me for a long while now, in my fond memories of childhood it has a special place. I can remember days spent under an apple tree reading longingly from the black and white pages of my trade paperback edition of Tintin classics like Red Rackham's Treasure, Cigars of the Pharaoh and the Seven Crystal Balls, which is my favorite Tintin adventure, bar none. In the community of Tintin aficionados, I know it is a large community; nobody I think would be full of joy returning to Tintin again after so many years in exile.
These editions of Tintin give me a great pleasure not only because I am a Tintin-aficionado, or TA, but also because of their compact size and comprehensive format. I read them sometimes on the subway, at school, at work and home, savoring every reality-infused slide of creation, delighting in the allure of those places like the deserts of Africa, wild jungles of the South Seas, Latin America and France that come out of every Tintin page.
Herge is a universal mind: he is one of few artists who could blend a penchant for fun and adventure with complex characterization and some much cherished stereotypes-Haddock, Professor Monocle and many more which made these stories worthwhile. His main character, Tintin, almost pales against these characters but Tintin will endure because he is the centerpiece of all the action, all the adventure, all the utopian fantasy of various characters that revolves in a web to encompass our entire world.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
Herge's creation of Tintin is truly a marvel, and these adventures in this book have suspense, along with jokes. There is a bit of Spanish, in Prisoners of the Sun, and all the scenes are the best. |
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