The Adventures of Tintin: Cigars of the Pharaoh
Cigars of the Pharaoh is one of Tintin’s earliest adventures. This story was written in 1932, but in the ‘50s was shortened and rewritten. In this facsimile edition, it appears as it did 70 years ago. Tintin and Snowy are on a cruise to Egypt when they happen to meet Professor Sophocles...
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Cigars of the Pharaoh is one of Tintin’s earliest adventures. This story was written in 1932, but in the ‘50s was shortened and rewritten. In this facsimile edition, it appears as it did 70 years ago. Tintin and Snowy are on a cruise to Egypt when they happen to meet Professor Sophocles Sarcophagus (the first of Tintin’s absent-minded professors) and join his expedition. But they become embroiled in a complicated scheme involving a fakir, cigars marked with an unusual brand, and Rajijah, the poison of madness. Most significantly, Tintin meets the detectives Thompson and Thomson as well as the movie mogul Rastapopolous.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780867199055 (0867199059)
Publish date: January 1st 2007
Publisher: Casterman Editions
Pages no: 129
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Adventure,
Cultural,
Mystery,
France,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comic Book,
Komik,
Bande Dessinée
Series: Tintin (#4)
Thankfully, this was a vast improvement upon the previous book, Tintin In America. The plotting was tighter and the character of Tintin starting to be more developed.The funny bits were actually funny, which helped, and the introduction of Thompson and Thomson gave the story an added dimension missi...
This is the story where Tintin comes on his own. While it was still written in a serialised form when it first appeared back in 1934, this story has a proper story arc where Tintin stumbles on a sophisticated drug smuggling ring that stretches across the entire Eurasian continent. It is here that Ti...
Reminded me of the old times ... Very amusing !
I admit I didn't really know anything about Tintin when we started in reading this. Oh, he's been whirling around the zeitgeist for a long while: my best roommate had a framed poster of Tintin in Tibet hanging in our living room, I've seen snatches of the tv show when I've checked them out of the li...
13 years ago
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