The 3 best books of the inexhaustible Tintin

Metaliterary synecdoche could be called by the most erudite comics scholars. The point is that Tintin devoured Hergé, your Creator. Did the same Asterix with Goscinny or Mafalda with Quino. Characters both from fiction to destroy most of the work of their respective authors. It is not that its creators felt resentment, because they are part of his work, but that transmutation that seems to prolong the life of the author in the myth of his illustrious character is still curious ...

In the case of Tintin, we are talking about another of the essential references in the universe of comics. Books that fought face to face with the monopolistic intention of Marvel superheroes and that not only managed to equal forces but even surpassed so many superman with powers who came from the USA.

The trick, as so many other times, was imagination, the resources of the best adventure script where ingenuity was put to work on both sides of the vignettes, from their creation to their reading and follow-up. This was how Tintin accompanied and accompanies so many boys and girls Readers of all ages with that fondness for the next myth, for the protagonist with whom they best empathize from his most human character on all sides.

Top 3 best Tintin books

The Calculus affair

Inspired by Agatha Christie or in Conan Doyle, Herbé found in this plot the perfect nemesis for a Tintin who finds his most serious moment facing this challenge. The best episode of how many could be told about Tintin and his investigations always at the limit.

This is a comic book masterpiece. We prefer not to explain the plot of the story here, so that whoever reads it for the first time can fully enjoy it. From the beginning, events follow a frenetic rhythm: an explosion is heard, a storm breaks out, objects that break, the power goes out and Serafín Latón arrives in the series for the first time.

In all of history there will be practically no downtime. For the creation of the sets, Hergé wanted to be as precise as possible. The story, which takes place for the most part in Switzerland, reflects the cold war that was going through very tense moments between the two blocks, represented in the rivalry between Borduria and Syldavia. The Calculus Affair was published in 1956.

The Calculus affair

Tintin and the moon

A volume that summarizes the two "odysseys" of Tintin admired by our satellite. A work that, understood in its context of creation prior to any physical knowledge of the Moon, points to evocations of Jules Verne himself, with that now melancholic point of the man unaware of what was beyond our blue planet.

Because this work began to be published in the weekly Tintin from March 30, 1950, nineteen years before the arrival of man on the Moon. This is not science fiction but rather an anticipation as precise as possible to the author.

Hergé contacted Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans, author of the book L'homme parmis les étoiles (The man among the stars), a specialist on the subject, who collaborated with the team. An extraordinary model of the rocket was made, which was submitted to the approval of Ananolf, author of the book Astronautics.

It was entirely removable and allowed young Bob de Moor, the main person in charge of the sets, at all times to know where the characters were on the spaceship. Hergé has the grace to give a humorous tone to all the scenes of scientific explanations that could bore the reader. Thus, when Wolf and Calculus explain more or less complicated elements, Captain Haddock is there to make a smile jump with his replicas.

Tintin and the moon

Tintin and the Pharaoh's cigars

Few mysteries of our world were left unaddressed by Tintin and his haunting need to know. And in that pretense of knowledge resides the magic of his series. Tintin is all of us navigating the unknown, in search of the answers and the resolutions that the adventurous spirit of the human being always considers. So ancient Egypt could not escape the visit of such an illustrious researcher ...

Tintin travels on a cruise ship bound for the Far East. On board he meets the strange Egyptologist Philemon Cyclone who travels in search of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Kih-Oskh. Tintin accompanies him to the grave and there he discovers the mysterious cigars, which hide something more than tobacco. Then he is kidnapped and abandoned at sea, but he is saved and disembarks in Arabia.

After many incidents, he went to India, where he stayed at the house of the Maharaja of Rawhajpurtalah. Characters appear here that we will meet again later: the ineffable policemen Hernández and Fernández, the evil Rastapopoulos and the peculiar Oliveira de Salazar.

Pharaoh's cigars began to appear in Le petit Vingtiéme on December 8, 1932. It was the time when news of the curse of Tutankhamun's tomb occupied many tabloid pages. This topic interested Hergé in such a way that years later he raised it again in The 7 Crystal Balls.

Pharaoh's cigars
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