Juventud -Tintin- The Crab With The Golden Claws (Special Edition 80th Anniversary Haddock)

This comic masterpiece, published in 1944, is the continuation of 'The Secret of the Unicorn' and tells the story of the search for the treasure of the pirate Rackham the Red. Professor Calculus enters the scene, the endearing scientist inventor, wise and absent-minded, whom we will meet again in the following adventures of Tintin, and who will become one of his good friends.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages

Tintin travels to North America, where he confronts the fearsome Chicago gangster syndicate, including the notorious Al Capone. Hergé's initial idea was to build his story around the Redskin Indian village that had always fascinated him, but then he also wanted to show as much of America as possible: the deserts and prairies, modern industries and big cities, alcohol prohibition, gangsters, cowboys and the plundering of the Redskin Indians, denouncing how they were expelled from their lands when oil was found there. Tintin in America began to be published on September 3, 1931 in Le Petit Vingtième, at the rate of two plates per week, where it would be published for a year. As in the case of Tintin in the Congo, the color version of the album was produced in 1945, benefiting from the progress that the practice and experience of these years had given to Hergé, who had already reached a great mastery and mastery in the language of visual storytelling, where the images narrate by themselves, without waiting for the text to do so.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages

After reading the news of a airplane crash in the Himalayas, Tintin has a dream where his injured young friend Tchang asks for help half buried in the snow. The next day he learns from the newspaper that Tchang was on the crashed airplane, and that no survivors have been found. But Tintin believes that Tchang is alive and sets off for Kathmandu to organize a rescue expedition. Tintin in Tibet coincides with a period of serious turbulence in Hergé's life, and its creation constituted a real therapy for him that really helped him to overcome it. According to Hergé himself, at that time (1958), he was going through a real crisis and his dreams and nightmares were almost always white. These dreams were always repeated and the author had to go to a psychiatrist who advised him to abandon this work because he would never finish it. Fortunately, Hergé did not do so. Not only did he finish Tintin in Tibet, but, in the opinion of many, it is one of his masterpieces. The color white also reigns in almost all the work, but this time not as a nightmare but as a purification. .

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages

The Adventures of Tintin - Tintin And The Moon, Double Album

Special edition of the double adventure of Tintin on the Moon on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the arrival of man on the Moon, although Tintin stepped on the lunar surface 14 years earlier. This book is made up of the two installments that narrate the space voyage created by Hergé in Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon. This double album brings together the two original adventures in the usual format of the albums published by Juventud, but in a single volume with both comics. The edition has the original translation by Concepción Zendrera into Spanish.

Characteristics:

Edition: May 2019 (first)

Cardboard

Measurements: 22.5 x 30.5 cm.

Pages: 128

La Castafiore announces her arrival in Moulinsart, and the captain tries to flee the trip in a hurry, but stumbles on a broken step that they have not yet come to fix and breaks his ligaments. The rumor of a sentimental relationship between the singer and the "old sea dog" is born and everything is full of paparazzi. And the jewels disappear... In this album there are no travels or great adventures, and that is the grace of Hergé to maintain the intrigue. All the action takes place in Moulinsart, in and around the gardens of the castle. As Hergé himself tells us: "When I started this album, my intention was also to simplify, to train myself to tell, this time, a story in which nothing happens, without resorting to exoticism. Simply to see if I could keep the reader in suspense until the end.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages

The publication of the adventures of Tintin, reporter of the Petit Vingtième in the land of the Soviets, began on January 10, 1929 in the children's supplement of the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, in the form of single pages, in black and white as the present edition. In 1930 they were expanded in an album with which Hergé started the collection of the Adventures of Tintin, showing what in the future would be his way of doing both in drawings and in scripts and "gags", and that he would perfect in the following adventures.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

Slave and arms trafficking are at the core of the plot of this adventure, and as usual, Tintin and the captain are involved by a series of coincidences. This album is a sort of continuation of Tintin in land of black gold, and a large number of characters that appeared in previous episodes reappear in it. The emir Ben Kalishn Ezab, in difficulties in his country, sends his little son, the terrible Abdalah to Moulinsart. Tintin and the captain flee from his mischief, leaving him with the long-suffering Nestor, and head for Khemed to try to help the emir.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages

This time, Tintin sets out on a journey to Scotland on the trail of evildoers. He discovers the secret behind the walls of the castle of Ben More, on the Black Isle, and its mysterious monster. The Black Island appeared in Le Petit Vingtième from April 15, 1937 to June 16, 1938. The album was first published at the end of 1938 in black and white. In 1943 it was changed to color, reducing the number of pages to 62. In 1965, when the English translation was made, the British publisher pointed out to Hergé numerous errors that this volume contained from the English point of view. Hergé sent his collaborator Bob de Moor to England with the list of errors and the assignment to rejuvenate and authenticate the story. Thus Black Island was completely redrawn and modernized. It should be noted that already in the 1937 edition a television set appears, and although the first essays date from 1923, it was still a relatively confidential invention at that time.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages

This Tintin adventure is about the struggle between the big oil companies. It all starts when adulterated gasoline invades the market. Tintin travels to the country of Khemed, where a power struggle pits Emir Ben Kalish Ezab against Bab El Ehr, each financed by a different oil company. Enter the terrible Abdalah, the emir's son. Hergé was inspired by a photograph of the real King Faisal II as a child. This album has gone through numerous versions before knowing its final form. It began to appear on September 25, 1939 in Le Petit Vingtième, following King Ottokar's Sceptre, but the war broke out. On May 9, 1940, the German forces entered Brussels and the publication of Le Petit Vingtième was interrupted, and with it, Tintin in land of black gold. The story stops on the current page 26 of the album, and will not be continued until 6 years later in Tintin magazine.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages

Tintin buys a model of an old galleon at the old market. It turns out to be a replica of the ship that Captain Haddock's ancestor, the knight Hadoque, commanded, who fought against the pirate Rackham the Red, who carried on his ship a great treasure that has been hidden for centuries. This story was first published in Le Soir on June 11, 1942, during the occupation of Belgium, and was one of Hergé's favorite albums. For the design of the Unicorn, Hergé relied on precise documentation of 17th century ships in the Paris Navy Museum.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages

In this adventure, Tintin goes to the center of Africa, to make a report. There, dangerous adventures await him, as his enemies are chasing him to kill him. On Tintin's return from his trip to Russia, described in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, Hergé is commissioned to take Tintin to the Congo, then a Belgian colony. This album is an excellent document to see how Europeans of the time imagined Africa and Africans. The story was first published on June 5, 1930 in Le Petit Vingtième (see Hergé's biography). In 1946, Hergé completely redrew the album to change it to color and reduce its 110 original plates to the 62 pages that the albums would have from then on. In this new color version, he introduced numerous modifications, softening the colonialist overtones a bit. In spite of this, Tintin in the Congo fell out of favor from the 1950s onwards, and became quite difficult to find. It was the troubled time of decolonization, and the album was not particularly timely. But curiously it was in a Zaire magazine that the story first reappeared, ending the quarantine of Tintin in the Congo.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages

This album marks a return to adventure. It begins to appear in the weekly Tintin, in September 1966, four years after the end of The Castafiore Emerald. Here we meet again Rastatopoulos, whom we thought drowned at the end of The Red Sea Sharks, and his friend Allan. A new figurine appears: the very rich Lazlo Carreras, the man who never laughs. Carreiras is a millionaire owner of airairplanes, oil companies and the Sani-Cola beverage. This character was inspired by Marcel Dassault. He is a paradoxical character: he is among the good guys, but under the effect of the truth serum he is portrayed as a being without scruples when it comes to having amassed his fortune. Towards the end of the story we discover Mik Ezdaditoff, a character inspired by Jacques Bergier, author of the book Le Matin des magiciens and animator of the magazine Planète. We see here Hergé's fascination with paranormal and extraterrestrial phenomena.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages

After two years of absence in Peru and Bolivia, the Sanders-Hardmuth ethnographic expedition returns to Europe having discovered several Inca tombs. They brought back the mummy of the Inca Rascar Capac, also called "the one who unleashes fire from the sky", who was wearing valuable solid gold jewelry. After a short time, all the participants of the expedition fall victim to a mysterious evil, and whenever this happens, fragments of small crystal balls are found.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages

Tintin In The Land Of The Soviets - Special Color Edition - CASTELLANO

Created in 1929, this first Tintin adventure surprises by a new and modern legibility when it was colored in 2016, long after Hergé's disappearance. Already endowed with an enthusiastic energy, Tintin in this adventure gets into a powerful convertible car and, to express speed, Hergé lifts his bangs from his forehead... forever, in a toupee that will remain his signature physical feature. The young author was 21 years old and had always shown great skill with the pencil without having studied drawing. He did not know that he had just created a hero who would become universal and mythical in the course of his twenty-four Adventures...

1st edition, October 2022

Hardcover, 23 x 30 cm

144 pages

English

The theft of an Arumbaya fetish from the ethnographic museum takes Tintin to the South American republic of San Teodoro. There he is immersed in the war of this country with neighboring Nuevo Rico, and becomes an assistant to General Alcazar, a controversial character that we will meet again later in other adventures. Tintin goes deep into the jungle to find the Arumbayas and discover the mystery of the stolen fetish. This Tintin adventure was first published in Le Petit Vingtième at the end of 1935 and came out in volume in 1937. It was put into color in 1943. Here again, Hergé includes allusions to current world events. The conflict between San Teodoro and Nuevo Rico over oil is based on the bloody Gran Chaco war, which confronted Paraguay and Bolivia during the 1930s and lasted three years, causing more than 100,000 deaths. Hergé is almost absolutely faithful to reality. He converts "el Gran Chaco" to "el Gran Chapo" and transforms the names of two oil companies, but everything else is scrupulously accurate.

In this album Hergé describes the first of his imaginary countries, which he will later make one of his specialties.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages