Le Petit Vingtième
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Le Petit Vingtième was the weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle from 1928 to 1940. The comics series The Adventures of Tintin first appeared in its pages.
Le Petit Vingtième, number 32 from 1934
Tintin in the Land of the Soviets is the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle
Le Petit Vingtième
…Kieckens, the secretary of the abbot at the newspaper. They were engaged in 1932 and married on 20 July the same year. On 10 January 1929, in issue 11, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets began. Every issue featured two pages of the story, and Hergé often made covers for the supplement depicting Tintin as well. A year later, on 23 January…
Cover of the English edition
A panel showing Tintin and Snowy in a train heading for the Soviet Union.
Bolsheviks force people to vote for them at gunpoint in a scene appropriated from Joseph Douillet's Moscou sans voiles (1928).
Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters considered In the Land of the Soviets to be "joyously bizarre" but also clearly Hergé's worst: "One couldn't have imagined a less remarkable debut".