Destination Moon (comics)
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Destination Moon is the sixteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was initially serialised weekly in Belgium's Tintin magazine from March t
Cover of the English edition
A Nazi German V-2 rocket being launched in 1945. The V-2 would serve as a major inspiration for Hergé in his work on both Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon.
A model of Hergé's fictional rocket at Brussels Airport
The cover of Tintin magazine that first announced the impending Moon adventure
Explorers on the Moon
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Explorers on the Moon is the seventeenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in Belgium's Tintin magazine from October 19
Destination Moon (comics)
…established Studios Hergé, a Brussels-based team of cartoonists to aid him on the project. Hergé concluded the story arc beginning in this volume with Explorers on the Moon, while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. Critics have held the illustrative detail of the book in high…
Cover of the English edition
A German V-2 rocket being tested in 1942. The V-2 would serve as a major inspiration for Hergé in his work on both Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon.
Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters (pictured, 2010) felt that Wolff's character brought "a tragic note" to the story.