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.
Hergé
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Georges Prosper Remi, known by the pen name Hergé, from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin,
The house in Etterbeek where Hergé was born (33 Rue Philippe Baucq)
Jo, Zette and Jocko in Cœurs Vaillants
![Booklet published by the resistance group L'Insoumis, denouncing Georges Remy [sic] as a collaborator. Hergé later admitted that "I hated the Resistan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Galerie_de_Traitres_-_Herg%C3%A9.JPG/500px-Galerie_de_Traitres_-_Herg%C3%A9.JPG)
Booklet published by the resistance group L'Insoumis, denouncing Georges Remy [sic] as a collaborator. Hergé later admitted that "I hated the Resistance thing ... I knew that for every one of the Resistance's actions, hostages would be arrested and shot."
The Allied liberation of Belgium in September 1944 brought problems for Hergé.