The Adventures Of Tintin Volume 1
This first volume brings together two of Tintin's earliest outings, and what a pair they make. In the first story, the young reporter heads to Soviet Russia with his loyal dog Snowy at his side, only to find himself running rings around the Bolsheviks and the secret police as he tries to get his story. In the second, he crosses the Atlantic to America, where gangsters, cowboys, and the glittering chaos of the Big Apple all want a piece of him. Danger follows Tintin like a shadow, but he's not one to back down. Hergé's iconic hero has now been delighting readers for over eight decades, and it's not hard to see why. The books sell more than 100,000 copies a year in the UK alone, with an estimated 230 million copies shifted worldwide since publication began. Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson thought the adventures worthy of a big-screen treatment back in 2011, which says something about their enduring pull. What's striking is how well these stories hold up across generations. Children get the thrills and the slapstick; adults pick up on the historical and political backdrops. Comic books, at their finest, can do that. This volume proves it rather convincingly.
- Author: Hergé
- Publisher: Farshore
- Genre: Design & Fashion
- ISBN: 978-1405282758
- Pages: 208 pages