Frank Wolff is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé, particularly in Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon. The main cast of the series. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Georges Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ... Destination Moon (Objectif Lune) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ... Explorers on the Moon (originally On a marché sur la Lune) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...

He is a meek scientist who assists Calculus during the Moon mission. Wolff earned Captain Haddock's wrath by refusing to allow him to take any alcohol or tobacco on board the rocket (though the captain managed to smuggle some alcohol on board anyway). Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ...

Before coming to Syldavia, Wolff was a rocket scientist in the U.S. space rocketry project at Whitesands. He was a compulsive gambler and was under a heavy debt, but he was helped out of the debt by a group of agents in exchange for secret information to the Rocket Programme. Racked with guilt, he escaped to Syldavia, where he got a job on the Syldavian Moon Rocket Programme while trying to bury his past. However, the agents who had helped him out of his debt rediscovered him and blackmailed him into being an inside spy for them. Wolff smuggled out the plan for the experimental rocket, forcing Tintin to destroy it. Also he smuggled Colonel Jorgen into the Space rocket, thinking he was a journalist chasing the scoop of the century. White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), formerly known as the White Sands Proving Grounds, is located in Otero County, New Mexico, mostly in the Tularosa Basin, a valley between the Organ Mountains, San Andres Mountains and the Sacramento Mountains of the U.S. state of New Mexico, it includes the northern... The Adventures of Tintin has several minor characters: General Alcazar General of the army of San Theodoros, Alcazar switches with comedic frequency between being president of the country and leading a rebellion to battle the government led by his arch-rival General Tapioca. ...

Wolff generally stayed out of the story until they landed on the Moon. Here, Jorgen convinced Wolff to escape in the rocket, taking Tintin as hostage, but an act of sabotage by Tintin grounded the rocket (but also caused extensive damage). On the return trip, Wolff tried to stop Jorgen from shooting the crew of the rocket, and Jorgen inadvertently shot himself, dying instantly.

With the rocket's oxygen running out, Wolff, deciding that the mission's troubles were his fault, decided to exit the rocket out of the airlock to leave them enough air. He was presumably killed by decompression and asphyxiation. An airlock is a device which permits the passage of objects, people, and the like, between a pressure vessel and its surrounding space while minimizing the change of pressure—and loss of air—in the vessel. ... Decompresion has several meanings: in physics, decompression is the release of pressure and is the opposition of compression in medicine, scuba diving and aviation, decompression can refer to a sickness in scuba diving, decompression can refer to a stop, a chamber, a buoy, a trapeze, tables or a computer in... Asphyxia is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body. ...

In the note that Wolff left behind when he left the rocket he comments, "As for myself, a miracle might save me too". Hergé has stated that this comment was added at the demand of the Catholic Church to make it clear that Wolff had not committed suicide. ^[1] The name Catholic Church can mean a visible organization that refers to itself as Catholic, or the invisible Christian Church, viz. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the willful act of killing oneself. ...

The character is obviously based on the spy Klaus Fuchs. Note that the German word 'Fuchs' is literally 'Fox'. Klaus Fuchs ID badge at Los Alamos. ...

The main cast of the series. ... The creation process of a comic book is relatively complex and varies a lot from one author to another. ... This is a list of all books, films, and media produced so far in The Adventures of Tintin. ... Comments about Hergé and ideology. ... This is a list of the supporting characters appearing in The Adventures of Tintin. ... The Adventures of Tintin sports a vast array of secondary and tertiary characters. ... This is a list of characters from the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Abu-Bin-Dun Abdullah Colonel Achmed General Alcazar Peggy Alcazar Alfred Alembick Hector Alembick Allan Amhed Andy Alonzo Alvarez Anseering Avakuki Ayesha Ba Baorom Ehr El Bab Ramon Bada... Georges Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ... Tintin, Captain Haddock and Snowy approach Marlinspike Hall. ... The comic book series The Adventures of Tintin, by the Belgian artist Hergé, is one of the most popular cartoon creations of the 20th Century, with as many as 100 million Tintin books in print. ...

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