Ice Watch - Tintin & Co - Tintin - M, Moulinsart 82445

Tintin travels this time to millenary China. In Shanghai he discovers the origin of a powerful poison that makes you go mad. He is confronted with a terrible gang of opium traffickers and with Japanese agents who keep the reader in suspense until the end of the book. At the end of Cigars of the Pharaoh, Hergé had announced in "Le Petit Vingtième" that Tintin was going to continue his journey to the Far East. He then received a letter from Father Gosset, chaplain to Chinese students at the University of Louvain, who advised him to learn more about China and its culture and introduced him to Tchang Tchong-Jen, a young Chinese art student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Louvain. (We can recognize him in the character Tchang, the Chinese friend of Tintin). Through long conversations with Tchang, Hergé was able to get to know the culture of China, moving away from the clichés about the Chinese that Europeans had, absolutely far from reality. The friendship with Tchang would last a lifetime, both in fiction and in reality. This is the first album that Hergé would fully assume, and from here on he always documented in depth the countries where Tintin had to travel.

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

This is a comic masterpiece. We prefer not to explain the plot of the story here, so that those who read it for the first time can fully enjoy it. From the very beginning, the events are chained together at a fast pace: an explosion is heard, a storm breaks out, objects break, the power goes out and Serafin Brass arrives for the first time in the series. There will be virtually no downtime in the entire story. For the creation of the sets, Hergé wanted to be as precise as possible. The story, which takes place mostly in Switzerland, reflects the Cold War, which was going through very tense moments between the two blocs, represented in the rivalry between Borduria and Syldavia. The Calculus Affair was published in 1956.

Translated by Concepción Zendrera

23 x 30 cm

Cardboard

64 pages