The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Hergé, the writer-artist best known for The Adventures of Tintin. The heroes of the series are two young children, br
Jo, Zette and Jocko in Cœurs Vaillants.
The Castafiore Emerald
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The Castafiore Emerald is the twenty-first volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from July 1961 to September 1962 in Tintin magazi
The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko
…stories. A few Jo, Zette and Jocko comics allude to characters or events in The Adventures of Tintin, such as the Maharaja of Gopal (briefly mentioned in The Castafiore Emerald) appearing as a prominent character, and a portrait of Captain Haddock in the Legrand house. The following are the five Jo, Zette and Jocko titles…
Cover of the English edition
The Château de Cheverny in France was used as the basis for Haddock's family estate, Marlinspike Hall or Moulinsart in the original French version.
Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters (pictured, 2010) described The Castafiore Emerald as "the most surprising of Tintin's adventures".