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The Adventures of Tintin Vol 1 Tintin in America / Cigars of the Pharaoh / The Blue Lotus Hergé Books

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The Adventures of Tintin Vol 1 Tintin in America / Cigars of the Pharaoh / The Blue Lotus Hergé Books

The books themselves are classics, but in these reproductions, the entire page is 5x7 inches. As other reviewers have pointed out, they are far too small to comfortably read or to enjoy the illustrations. I returned them.


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The Adventures of Tintin Vol 1 Tintin in America / Cigars of the Pharaoh / The Blue Lotus Hergé Books Reviews

The good news Volume One of the Adventures of Tintin contains three early stories by Belgian cartoonist Herge about his iconic cartoon hero, the young journalist and adventurer Tintin. The bad news the small format of these books doesn't do justice to Herge's distinctive artwork.

In "Tintin in America", the crusading reporter Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy take on the Chicago. In a story laden with mob stereotypes, Tintin survives one dangerous encounter after another, finally ending up out West in pursuit of a fleeing mob boss. The two will play cowboy and indian in a thrilling finale.

In "Cigars of the Pharoah", Tintin and Snowy run afoul of a drug-smuggling operation while visiting Egypt on a cruise ship. The chase takes Tintin to the desert, the Red Sea, and finally to the jungles of India for a showdown with the drug gang. This adventure is noteworthy for introducing the bumbling detectives Thompson and Thomson, and recurring villain Rastopopolus.

"The Blue Lotus" has Tintin and Snowy continuing their pursuit of the drug smugglers into war-torn China. Tintin takes refuge at the International Settlement in Shanghai, where he befriends the young boy Chang, and where he finds much official corruption and personal danger.

Herge did extensive research in support of his carefully detailed plots, some of which are now a bit dated. Fans will often forgive the storylines for the sake of Herge's simple yet wonderfully detailed artwork, and for that, this reviewer recommends a larger format, if you can find it.
As a fan of Tin Tin for many years, I was enthusiastic about getting this version to share with my 2-year-old daughter. The art is still wonderful, but I wish I had paid more attention to the dimensions of the book. It is VERY SMALL, and so is the text. I'm only in my 40s and I can barely read it! If you have a magnifying glass handy, you're in luck. I imagine it's also very good for people who are incredibly nearsighted, or those who require very small hardbound books for travel or storage purposes. Other than that, if you're looking for something you can actually read, with pictures large enough to see detail, check out other offerings. This book is beautifully made...I just can't read it.
Long before Steven Spielberg discovered Tintin, I was reading his comic book adventures in both English and French. (In English, you pronounce his name Tin-Tin, while in French, you pronounce it Tan-Tan.) When my wife and I visited Quebec City one summer, I bought several French versions of Tintin in a local bookstore. They have given me hours of pleasure.

_The Adventures of Tintin_, vol. 1 (2007) is an omnibus of three early Tintin adventures _Tintin in America_, _The Cigars of the Pharaoh_, and _The Blue Lotus_. The last two are direct sequels to one another, with _Lotus_ continuing the plot of _Pharaoh_. I believe that they have a freshness that is lacking in some of the later adventures.

The setting of the stories is a bit dated. There are speakeasies and Chicago gangsters in _America_. (Al Capone makes a brief appearance.) And the Japanese are invading China and walking out of the League of Nations in _Lotus_. But I'm glad that no attempt was made to modernize them. The thirties flavor is part of their charm.

These adventures take place before the entrance of the bibulous Captain Haddock and the auditorily challenged Professor Calculus. But that ever faithful dog Snowy is there, and the Chinese boy, Chang. And so are those bowler-hatted detectives, the Thom(p)son twins; though in these stories, they are more concerned with arresting Tintin for crimes that he didn't commit than with helping him. That villainous seaman Allan makes his first appearance in _Cigars_. He will make a later appearance in _The Crab with the Golden Claws_.

The stories are Saturday afternoon serial adventures laced with slapstick humor. Tintin is tossed into the river, falls off of cliffs, faces firing squads, is lost at sea in a coffin, is toppled into meat grinding machinery, is caught by a snare (in a straight jacket, no less), has boulders toppled towards him, is tied up on a railroad track... and frequently escapes only by means of outrageous luck. Some readers have objected to some of these methods of escape as relying too much upon coincidence. I believe that they miss the point. The sheer outlandish nature of some of the escapes is all part of the humor.

The artwork is terrific. Herge is especially good with elaborate machines ocean liners, sailboats, roadsters, airplanes, trains, and guns. But then there are the wonderful landscapes of Arabian cities, Singapore, the Indian jungle, and the Sahara Desert. And there are also animals horses, mountain lions, deer, tigers, and Chinese dragons. My one quibble is that the size of the book is smaller than the originals, shrinking the print and preventing the pictures from having their full effect.
Having read volume 2 of this collection I can honestly say that Herge took some time to find his feet with the series. The first two Tintin books, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo, were so racially and culturally insensitive that they have rarely been reprinted and aren't even included in this collection. The first story in this volume, Tintin in America, isn't quite that bad, but it is still on the tail of the same trend. It's a boring, repetitive story that's racially insensitive. The other two stories, however, mark the beginning of a turning point in the series. Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus are two connected stories that are deep, complex, and entertaining beyond belief. The stories in volume 2 just get better. So if you buy this and are knee-deep into Tintin in America and aren't feeling it, know that it's not representative of the series as a whole, and maybe consider just skipping to Cigars of the Pharaoh.
The books themselves are classics, but in these reproductions, the entire page is 5x7 inches. As other reviewers have pointed out, they are far too small to comfortably read or to enjoy the illustrations. I returned them.