Cigars of the Pharaoh
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Cigars of the Pharaoh is the fourth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle f
Cover of the English edition
Howard Carter's 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb (pictured) influenced Cigars.
Cigars on the front of Le Petit Vingtième; the frieze is based on an example in the Louvre.
Comparisons of the same scene from the 1934 and 1955 versions of the comic.
Red Rackham's Treasure
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Red Rackham's Treasure is the twelfth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised daily in Le Soir, Belgium's leading francophone newspa
Cover of the English edition
Nazi German soldiers in eastern Belgium in 1940. Red Rackham's Treasure and The Secret of the Unicorn were both written while Belgium was under German occupation.
Calculus was visually based upon the scientist Auguste Piccard.
Hergé deemed this frame from the story to be one of his two favourites from the entire Adventures of Tintin.