When Tintin gives Captain Haddock a model ship the cartoon characters are led into a strange adventure involving pirates from the reign of Charles II

Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock join Professor Calculus' moon expedition.

The classic graphic novel. A meteorite collides with Earth! Tintin is part of the expedition to the Arctic Ocean to locate the fallen star. But they aren't the only ones hungry to make the new discovery-someone is trying to sabotage Tintin and his team!

Tintin and Captain Haddock seek a way to rescue Professor Calculus from his Peruvian captors.

When opera star Bianca Castafiore is arrested on a visit to South America, Tintin and his friends come to her rescue.

Herge first published Le Lotus Bleu in the magazine Le Petit Vingtieme in Brussels in 1934-5: the story itself is set in 1931. At that time Japanese troops were occupying parts of the Chinese mainland, and Shanghai, the great seaport at the mouth of the Yangtze Kiang, possessed an International Settlement, a trading base in China for Western nations, administered by the British and Americans. Herge based his narrattive freely upon the events of the...