Flight 714 to Sydney
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Flight 714 to Sydney is the twenty-second volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from September 1966 to November 1967 in Tintin mag
Cover of the retitled English edition
The character of Laszlo Carreidas, devised for this story, was based on Marcel Dassault.
The Carreidas 160 cross-sectional view, as it appeared in Tintin magazine
Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters felt that the villains in Flight 714 to Sydney were "objects of parody".
Tintin and the Picaros
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Tintin and the Picaros is the twenty-third volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The final instalment in the series to be completed by Hergé, it was serial
Flight 714 to Sydney
…of its antagonists, the nescience of its protagonists, and for leaving its central mystery unresolved. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with Tintin and the Picaros, while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. The story was adapted for the 1991 animated Ellipse/Nelvana…
Cover of the English-language edition
The "Jolly Follies" arrive at the Picaros camp in a Jonckheere DAF coach SB 1602 from 1974.
Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro (left, photographed in 1972) was a partial inspiration for the story