The Adventures of Tintin

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The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a Belgian comic strip, created by Hergé (Georges Remi) starting in the late 1920s.

[edit] Plot and characters

The stories, center around a young reporter from Belgium named Tintin, who travels the world and has many exciting adventures with his dog, a white wire fox terrier named Snowy (Milou, in French) and later (starting with The Crab with the Golden Claws in 1941) his friend, Captain Haddock, joins them on their adventures. Other popular characters include Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol) an absent-minded scientist and inventor, and Thomson and Thompson (Dupond et Dupont), two silly detectives.

[edit] The Books

The stories are a mixture of many different genres, including adventure, satire, and social commentary and changed over time, the first story, Tintin in the Land of Soviets came out in 1929 and the last fully completed story Tintin and the Picaros in 1976, another story Tintin in Alph-Art was never offically finished following the death of Hergé in 1983.

[edit] Other media

the Tintin Shop in London, England
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the Tintin Shop in London, England

There have also been plays, films, and animated cartoons based on the stories. There are also Tintin Shops in Europe, which sell books, toys and other items based on the books.

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