The Adventures of Tintin sports a vast array of secondary and tertiary characters. The Adventures of Tintin has several minor characters. Image File history File links TintinCast. ...
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The main characters and others from The Castafiore Emerald, one of the later books The Adventures of Tintin (French: ) is a series of Belgian comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi (1907–1983). ...
For other more prominent characters see the list of supporting characters appearing in The Adventures of Tintin This is a list of the supporting characters appearing in The Adventures of Tintin. ...
For the complete list see the List of The Adventures of Tintin characters The Adventures of Tintin sports a vast array of characters. ...
Professor Hector Alembick
Professor Hector Alembick is a sigillographer - that is, an expert on seals - who appears in King Ottokar's Sceptre. Tintin meets him when returning a briefcase which the professor had forgotten on a park bench. Professor Alembick - a bespectacled, chain-smoking academic - tells Tintin of his desire to visit Syldavia to research an ancient seal belonging to the Syldavian monarch King Ottokar IV that he had discovered recently; he subsequently hires Tintin as a secretary to accompany him on his journey. On the day before the trip, Alembick calls Tintin by telephone; in the midst of the conversation, Tintin hears a struggle and a cry for help before the connection is cut short. When Tintin rushes to the professor's apartment to investigate, he is startled to find the professor calmly packing his bags. Although Alembick's appearance seems unchanged, subtle changes in his behavior lead Tintin to suspect that something is amiss. At the end of the album, Tintin discovers that Hector Alembick had indeed been kidnapped and impersonated by his twin brother Alfred (who has unimpaired vision and does not smoke). His name is a pun on Alembic. This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ...
Seal on envelope A seal is an impression printed on, embossed upon, or affixed to a document (or any other object) in order to authenticate it, in lieu of or in addition to a signature. ...
King Ottokars Sceptre (Le Sceptre dOttokar) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring the young reporter Tintin. ...
Tintin and Snowy (original French language names: Tintin et Milou), a journalist and his canine companion, are a pair of adventurers who travel around the world in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. The...
National motto: (English: rub yourself there, get stung ) Official language Syldavian Capital Klow Largest city Klow Population 642,000 (1939) Government Constitutional monarchy Head of State and Head of Government King Muskar XII (1939) Consolidation 1127 Currency Khôr National anthem Rejoice, Syldavia! National animal Pelican Syldavia is a fictional...
An alembic is an alchemical still consisting of two retorts connected by a tube. ...
Omar Ben Salaad Omar Ben Salaad appeared in just one adventure, The Crab with the Golden Claws. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
The Crab with the Golden Claws (Le Crabe aux pinces dor) 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 was a wealthy Arab merchant based in the port-city of Bagyhar in Morocco, then a French possession. (In the English translation the city is renamed Bagghar, which sounds like "bagarre", the French for "fight"). Ben Salaad was one of the most respected men in the city and, along with his great wealth, owed a palace with servants, horses, cars, huge amounts of land and a plane. He was a Muslim who regularly went to the Mosque. People would bow and look up to him as he went through the streets. Languages Arabic other minority languages Religions Predominantly Sunni Islam, as well as Shia Islam, Greek Orthodoxy, Greek Catholicism, Roman Catholicism, Alawite Islam, Druzism, Ibadi Islam, and Judaism Footnotes a Mainly in Antakya. ...
Merchants function as professionals who deal with trade, dealing in commodities that they do not produce themselves, in order to produce profit. ...
There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ...
A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ...
Tintin had discovered a smuggling ring which used tins of crab meat in order to smuggle their opium. They were labelled "Crab Extra". While in Bagghar he saw similar tins in shops but which contained plain crab meat. This led him to the supplier of the product: Omar Ben Salaad. Superfamilies Dromiacea Homolodromioidea Dromioidea Homoloidea Eubrachyura Raninoidea Cyclodorippoidea Dorippoidea Calappoidea Leucosioidea Majoidea Hymenosomatoidea Parthenopoidea Retroplumoidea Cancroidea Portunoidea Bythograeoidea Xanthoidea Bellioidea Potamoidea Pseudothelphusoidea Gecarcinucoidea Cryptochiroidea Pinnotheroidea * Ocypodoidea * Grapsoidea * An asterisk (*) marks the crabs included in the clade Thoracotremata. ...
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Tintin suspected that Ben Salaad used the cover of his legitimate business in order to smuggle the opium. This was a tactic that had been used by villains in previous adventures (see Ideology of Tintin: Big Business). He asked the Thompsons to investigate Ben Salaad and to get the registration number of his personal plane, probably suspecting it to be the one that had attacked him and Captain Haddock while they were out at sea in a lifeboat. Comments about Hergé and ideology. ...
Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond) This wooden toy depicts Thompson, albeit without his characteristic bowler hat. ...
Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
Although they assured Tintin that they would do their investigation discreetly, the Thompsons instead confronted Ben Salaad face-to-face and told him of Tintin's suspicions. Outraged at such accusations, Ben Salaad ordered them out of his house or he would skin them alive. At that moment a secret passage leading to his hidden cellars opened up to one of his men who was being chased by a drunken and angry Haddock and Tintin who was equally drunk but playful. In the cellar, Tintin had found the tins of crab containing opium.
Ben Salaad had previously ordered Tintin's murder, now he was about to shoot him himself when Snowy bit him causing him to shoot the ceiling and be knocked unconscious by a metallic light cover. On his neck he wore a necklace which included a crab's claws made of gold. This confirmed to Tintin (by some unexplained link) that he was the leader of the gang and he was taken into custody. Tintin and Snowy (original French language names: Tintin et Milou), a journalist and his canine companion, are a pair of adventurers who travel around the world in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. The...
It was later revealed that his activities went all the way to the Far East, hence the kidnapping of a Japanese police detective called Bunji Kuraki who was also investigating the ring. The far east as a cultural block includes East Asia, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and South Asia. ...
Ben Salaad could be considered the Arab version of other opium smugglers that Tintin had confronted in his travels, including Rastapopoulos and Mitsuhirato of The Blue Lotus. It's even possible that there was a much closer connection between the three given that Ben Salaad's henchman Allan Thompson was later seen working fully for Rastapopoulos in The Red Sea Sharks and Flight 714. Rastapopoulos, in cowboy outfit from Flight 714 Roberto Rastapopoulos (Greek ΡοβÎÏτος Ρασταπόπουλος) from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé, is a Greek American tycoon (also known under the fake name Marquis di Gorgonzola); he was apparently partly inspired by the Greek shipping tycoon Onassis. ...
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. ...
The Blue Lotus (Le Lotus bleu), first published in 1936, is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Allan Allan Thompson is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. He was originally a first mate under an alcoholic Haddock, Allan is often involved in smuggling and other criminal activities as one of Rastapopoulos henchmen. ...
The Red Sea Sharks (Coke en stock), is the nineteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Flight 714 (Vol 714 pour Sydney), first published in 1968, is the twenty-second of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
(The Cigars of the Pharaoh precedes all these stories and Hergé later redrew it to show Allan working for Rastapopoulos' gang when he takes delivery of sarcophagi which is supposed to contain drugs but which actually holds Tintin and his friends.) Cigars of the Pharaoh (Les Cigares du pharaon) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Georges Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ...
"Omar" and "Salad" are common Arabic names, but Omar also sounds like "homard" which is the French for lobster. Thus his name could be said to be a play on lobster salad, and adds to the connection with the crab meat which is part of his business. Subfamilies and Genera Neophoberinae Acanthacaris Thymopinae Nephropsis Nephropides Thymops Thymopsis Nephropinae Homarus Nephrops Homarinus Metanephrops Eunephrops Thymopides Clawed lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans. ...
Salad Platter Salad is a light meal — or, as part of a larger meal, much more of an appetizer — consisting of mixed vegetables (usually including at least one leaf vegetable) or fruit, often with a dressing or sauce, occasionally nuts and sometimes with the addition of meat, fish or cheese. ...
The Bird brothers The Bird brothers, Max Bird and G. Bird (Bird being English slang for time spent in prison i.e. Max Bird meaning a long sentence and G suggesting Gaol (jail) Bird), are the main adversaries in The Secret of the Unicorn. The Secret of the Unicorn (originally Le Secret de la Licorne) 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. ...
They, like Tintin, were looking for three scrolls to unlock the secret of Red Rackham's treasure. They operated from their manor, Marlinspike Hall, where at one point they held Tintin hostage and threatened him with torture, convinced he was behind their failure in collecting all three scrolls. Amongst their other crimes was the attempted murder of their helper, Barnaby, just before he could tell Tintin of their plot. The Bird Brothers were captured by Thompson and Thomson. Max escaped, but was later caught by the police while trying to leave the country. Tintin, Captain Haddock and Snowy approach Marlinspike Hall. ...
In Red Rackham's Treasure, Max Bird escaped again and was spotted near the Sirius, a ship used by Tintin and Haddock in their search of Red Rackham's treasure. Thompson and Thomson were thus sent as part of the expedition in order to look out for him. Whether or not he was actually on board is never revealed (Thompson and Thomson claim that he was discouraged by their presence !) Red Rackhams Treasure (Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge) 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. ...
The Bird brothers have not been seen since, though they were depicted in sketches for the never finished Tintin and Alph-Art. Tintin and Alph-Art (originally known as Tintin et lalph-art) is the twenty-fourth and final book in the Tintin series. ...
Mr. Bohlwinkel
 Mr. Bohlwinkel Mr. Bohlwinkel is a financier who appears in The Shooting Star. As the owner of a major banking concern and a petroleum firm called Golden Oil, he uses his wealth and resources to attempt to beat Tintin and his friends in the race to find a recently fallen meteorite. Apart from financing the exploratory vessel Peary, he (unsuccessfully) attempts to sabotage the competing expedition's ship Aurora. This includes depositing lit dynamite on its deck, instructing another ship under his control - the S.S. Kentucky Star - to ram the Aurora during a storm, refusing to allow the Aurora to refuel at a Golden Oil depot, and sending a fake S.O.S. to throw the Aurora off course. The Shooting Star ends with a dismayed Bohlwinkel listening to a radio announcement which reveals that the police are onto him. Image File history File links Bohlwinkel. ...
The Shooting Star (Létoile Mysterieuse) 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. ...
Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Lubbock, Texas Ignacy Åukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ...
Willamette Meteorite A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives an impact with the Earths surface without being destroyed. ...
Dynamite is an explosive based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth (kieselguhr) as an adsorbent. ...
It is conspicuous that Bohlwinkel has the exact physiognomy of the stereotypical Jew in Nazi propaganda. In the original edition of The Shooting Star (published during the war) he was referred to as "Blumenstein" and his bank was explicitly stated as being located in New York. Poster depicting America as a monstrous war machine destroying European culture. ...
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In later editions of the album, Herge attempted to alter the financer's antecedents by relocating him to a fictitious South American country, São Rico, and changing his name to a Belgian dialect word for a sweet shop, Bolwinkel. He also modified the spelling of the new name. South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
A fictional country of the Tintin series located in South America. ...
Alas, he subsequently learned that Bohlwinkel is also a Jewish surname. Several other changes were made in later editions of The Shooting Star.
Mr. Bolt A joiner who appears in The Castafiore Emerald, he was hired by Captain Haddock to fix the broken step in Marlinspike Hall. However, Mr Bolt is an immensely lazy man and he tends to put off the repairs due to many reasons he gives, namely: catching the flu, his cousin's marriage, etc. Because of his put-offs, the Captain has been thinking about finding someone else, but, strangely, never gets around to doing that either. Mr. Bolt was one of the people who sent the Captain a telegram when a magazine article about the Captain about to marry Bianca Castafiore was published. At the end of the book, Mr. Bolt finally comes and fixes the broken step. However, the Captain trips up on the step, instantly undoing Mr. Bolt's work! A Joiner is a woodworker who makes and installs architectural woodwork, including things that are called Finish carpentry and millwork in the USA. Joiners fabricate and install building components such as doors, windows, stairs, wooden panelling, mouldings, shop cabinets, kitchen cabinets, and other wooden fittings. ...
The Castafiore Emerald (Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) 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. ...
Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
Respiratory disease properly named influenza(say: in-floo-en-zah ). Some specific varities of influenza with a vaccination available are: A-New Caledonia, A-California, B-Shanghai. ...
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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. ...
Laszlo Carreidas - In French: fr:Laszlo Carreidas
A wealthy aircrafts construction tycoon, Laszlo Carreidas is kidnapped (along with his new jet) by Rastapopoulos in Flight 714. His unassuming figure notwithstanding, Carreidas is revealed to be a cunning individual with a long history of unscrupulous behavior not limited to the business world; he is not above cheating Captain Haddock at a game of Battleships with the help of a closed-circuit television. A large part of his personal fortune is in a Swiss bank account under a false name and signature, presumably for taxation purposes. A business magnate, sometimes referred to as a mogul, tycoon, or industrialist is a person who controls a large portion of a particular industry and whose wealth derives primarily from this control. ...
Rastapopoulos, in cowboy outfit from Flight 714 Roberto Rastapopoulos (Greek ΡοβÎÏτος Ρασταπόπουλος) from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé, is a Greek American tycoon (also known under the fake name Marquis di Gorgonzola); he was apparently partly inspired by the Greek shipping tycoon Onassis. ...
Flight 714 (Vol 714 pour Sydney), first published in 1968, is the twenty-second of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
pencil and paper game version The game Battleship is a game played by two people. ...
Swiss banks are world-renowned for their stability, privacy and protection of clients. ...
Carreidas is the owner of a brand of soft drink called "Sani-Cola" (a pun on the French pronunciation of "Saint Nicolas"), which apparently contains chlorophyll. The healthfulness of this beverage is brought into question when the whisky-loving Captain Haddock discreetly empties a cup forced upon him by Carreidas into a potted plant that wilts dramatically immediately thereafter. A soft drink is a drink that contains no alcohol. ...
Chlorophyll gives leaves their green color Space-filling model of the chlorophyll molecule Chlorophyll is a green pigment found in most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. ...
Carreidas' name is a pun: carré d'as means 'four aces' in French. Accordingly, the logo on the tail of his Carreidas 160 supersonic business jet consists of four aces. This aircraft appears to be a combination of a Gates Learjet and the Mirage G swing-wing fighter, and possibly is the purest - and most practical - example of the concept to date. It was designed by Roger Leloup, an artist working in the Studios Hergé.[1] Learjet is a manufacturer of business jets for civilian and military use. ...
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It seems that Hergé based Carreidas on Marcel Dassault, who possessed a similar combination of wealth, aeronautics engineering genius, and quaint notions of fashion (Dassault's wardrobe remained frozen in the mid 1930s). However this character does again seem Greek based like Rastapopoulos due to Hergé's fascination with Greek ship owners. The combination of his name, habits and quotes such as 'my maternal grandfather...just a humble confectioner, a maker of Turkish delight in Erzerum..' in Flight 714 lead us to believe we have yet another wealthy Greek stereotype. Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch, (Paris, 22 January 1892 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 17 April 1986) was a French aircraft industrialist. ...
Rastapopoulos, in cowboy outfit from Flight 714 Roberto Rastapopoulos (Greek ΡοβÎÏτος Ρασταπόπουλος) from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé, is a Greek American tycoon (also known under the fake name Marquis di Gorgonzola); he was apparently partly inspired by the Greek shipping tycoon Onassis. ...
Flight 714 (Vol 714 pour Sydney), first published in 1968, is the twenty-second of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Captain Chester An old friend of Captain Haddock, Captain Chester is a gruff merchant skipper with red hair and a bushy red moustache. He first appears in The Shooting Star in Iceland, where he bumps into Captain Haddock at the docks and launches into a bizarre greeting ritual with Haddock which Tintin interprets as a fight. However, Haddock and Chester warmly clasp hands and take Tintin to a local bar to reminisce over a bottle of whisky. Chester is captain of the Sirius, a merchant trawler, and uses his trawler to secretly refuel Haddock's research vessel in Iceland. Chester later lends his ship to Haddock while the latter searches for the casket of jewels taken from the pirate Red Rackham by one of Haddock's ancestors. He is briefly mentioned in "The Seven Crystal Balls" and is one of the people that sends Haddock telegrams in "The Castafiore Emerald". Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
The Shooting Star (Létoile Mysterieuse) 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. ...
Whisky (Scottish Gaelic: }, or whiskey (Irish: ), refers to a broad category of alcoholic beverages that are distilled from fermented grain mash and aged in wooden casks (generally oak). ...
Chiquito Chiquito appears as the sidekick of General Alcazar in The Seven Crystal Balls. One night, at the home of Calculus's friend Professor Tarragon, Chiquito hides himself in the trees after casting a spell on Tarragon. In the morning, Calculus is kidnapped by Chiquito and his men. Chiquito takes the professor to Peru and Tintin and Captain Haddock go after them. He later appears in Prisoners of the Sun on the Pachacamac and catches Tintin who has found Calculus. When Chiquito yells for his companion Alonzo Tintin takes the opportunity to escape and jumps into the water and swims to Haddock's boat as Chiquito shoots after him. Tintin and General Alcazar, from the Swedish edition of Tintin and the Picaros. ...
The Seven Crystal Balls (Les Sept Boules de cristal) is the thirteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Prisoners of the Sun. ...
Chiquito is often confused with Huascar who bears a close resemblance to Chiquito.
Chiquito is known to be a practitioner of black magic. He casts a spell on all seven members of the Sanders-Hardiman expedition, and holds them in a drug-induced trance. He is also able to torture them remotely from his temple. His real name is Rupac Inca Huaco and he is one of the few remaining descendants of the Incas. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Cutts the Butcher - In French: fr:Boucherie Sanzot
The local butcher shop where calls from Marlinspike Hall usually connect to first by accident, as the butchers' number of 431 is frequently mistaken for 421 to Marlinspike. Marlinspike Hall is similarly plagued by incoming calls from customers who have dialled the wrong number, infuriating the mansion's inhabitants by endlessly calling to order lamb chops and sausages. Tintin, Captain Haddock and Snowy approach Marlinspike Hall. ...
It has been suggested that Lambing be merged into this article or section. ...
Some of the many varieties of Sausages A sausage consists of ground meat and other animal parts, herbs and spices, and possibly other ingredients, generally packed in a casing (traditionally the intestines of the animal), and preserved in some way. ...
In French the name of the butcher shop "Boucherie Sanzot" is a pun. Sanzot sounds like "Sans os", in english "Without bones".
The delivery man from the butcher plays a vital (but invisible as the reader only sees his van) role in The Calculus Affair by offering Professor Calculus a lift to the village just in time to save him from a Bordurian kidnapping attempt. The Calculus Affair (LAffaire Tournesol) is the eighteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) Spoiler warning: Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, literally Professor Tryphonius Sunflower) is a fictional character in the series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
Borduria is a fictional country in the adventures of Tintin. ...
The Fakir This unnamed fakir appeared in Cigars of the Pharaoh and was a high-ranking member of an opium smuggling ring. He used the dangerous Rajaijah juice, the "poison of madness," and among his talents were hypnosis, the Indian rope trick and escapology (to the point where he was offended by Tintin thinking he could tie him up). A fakir or faqir (Arabic: Ùقیر poor) is a Sufi, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. ...
Cigars of the Pharaoh (Les Cigares du pharaon) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
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Harry Houdini, a famous escapologist and magician. ...
When Sophocles Sarcophagus went mad with schizophrenia, the Fakir used hypnotism in order to get him to kill Tintin but the attempt failed. When Tintin forced Zloty the writer to tell him about the organisation which was out to kill him, the Fakir used his darts poisoned with Rajaijah to stop him from revealing the name of the leader of the gang. When Tintin took Sarcophagus and Zloty to a mental asylum, the Fakir faked a letter to the head of the asylum telling him that it was Tintin and not the other two who were mad. Tintin was locked up in the asylum but escaped. The Adventures of Tintin sports a vast array of secondary and tertiary characters. ...
A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ...
The Fakir later made an attempt on the sanity of the Maharajah of Gaipajama, as had been done on his father and brother who had led the struggle against the opium traffickers in the region. Tintin, however, had placed a dummy in the Maharajah's bed which took the dart instead. Once Tintin unmasked the members of the ring's ruling circle, the Fakir helped their leader (later revealed to be Rastapopoulos) escape, but was captured when a falling rock knocked him out. Rastapopoulos, in cowboy outfit from Flight 714 Roberto Rastapopoulos (Greek ΡοβÎÏτος Ρασταπόπουλος) from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé, is a Greek American tycoon (also known under the fake name Marquis di Gorgonzola); he was apparently partly inspired by the Greek shipping tycoon Onassis. ...
In the sequel, The Blue Lotus, the Fakir escaped from prison and again used his darts to poison a Chinaman sent to warn Tintin against Mitsuhirato, another leader of the drug smugglers. The Blue Lotus (Le Lotus bleu), first published in 1936, is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
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. ...
(When the Blue Lotus was originally published in black-and-white in 1934 the Fakir can be seen escaping through the forest with his blowpipe after shooting the dart at the Chinaman. Not taking any chances, Tintin tells the Maharajah that he will not leave until he knows that the Fakir is unable to do the Maharajah any harm. The next day they receive a telegram announcing his recapture by the police.) A blowgun or blowpipe is a simple weapon consisting of a small tube for firing light projectiles, or darts. ...
Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ...
Huascar In Prisoners of the Sun Huascar is trying to stop Tintin & Haddock from finding Calculus. He fixes a train "accident" that nearly got them killed, but when he sees Tintin defending a young orange-seller (who is revealed to be Zorrino, and helps Tintin) from two men he changes his mind about them. He gives Tintin a talisman, which later saves Zorrino's life from the Incas. He is later revealed to be a High Priest of the Sun God when he defends Tintin & Haddock and tells the The Incas that they saved Zorrino. Prisoners of the Sun. ...
Tintin and Snowy (original French language names: Tintin et Milou), a journalist and his canine companion, are a pair of adventurers who travel around the world in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. The...
Binomial name Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Linnaeus, 1758) The haddock or offshore hake is a marine fish distributed on both sides of the North Atlantic. ...
Calculus (from Latin, pebble or little stone) is a branch of mathematics that includes the study of limits, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series, and constitutes a major part of modern university education. ...
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Huascar is sometimes mixed up with Chiquito because of his resemblance to Chiquito when wearing a hat.
Irma - In French: fr:Irma (Tintin)
The maid of Bianca Castafiore, she first appeared in The Calculus Affair. In The Castafiore Emerald, she went with Bianca Castafiore and her pianist Igor Wagner to Marlinspike Hall. Castafiore describes her as a faithful, loyal and honest servant. Despite giving a meek impression, she has a strong sense of personal pride. When Thompson and Thomson accuse Irma of stealing Castafiore's emerald, in the titular album, she becomes very angry and assaults the Thompsons with a walking stick. 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. ...
The Calculus Affair (LAffaire Tournesol) is the eighteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
The Castafiore Emerald (Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) 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. ...
A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ...
Tintin, Captain Haddock and Snowy approach Marlinspike Hall. ...
Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond) This wooden toy depicts Thompson, albeit without his characteristic bowler hat. ...
Mik Kanrokitoff - In French: fr:Mik Ezdanitoff
Seemingly Russian writer for the magazine Space Week. Appears in Flight 714 and helps Tintin, Captain Haddock and friends escape from the island after Allan and his cohorts set off a plastic esplosive charge that stirs up the island's volcano. Has hypnotic power by means of a small antenna and transmitter on the side of his head. Maintains a friendship with an unseen race of space aliens and it is their spaceship that enables Tintin and co. to escape the island.[2] Flight 714 (Vol 714 pour Sydney), first published in 1968, is the twenty-second of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Kronik and Klumsi Kronik and Klumsi are inept Bordurian secret service agents ostensibly assigned by Colonel Sponsz to ensure Tintin and Captain Haddock's safety and well-being during their visit to the Bordurian capital Szohôd. Like the KGB agents on whom they are presumably based, their real objective is to prevent the visitors from making indiscreet inquiries in their hunt for Professor Calculus. Tintin and Haddock neutralize the agents by plying them with drinks at dinner and then locking them in their respective hotel rooms. Their names are undoubtably puns on chronic and clumsy. They appear to be the Bordurian equivalents of Thompson and Thomson. Borduria is a fictional country in the adventures of Tintin. ...
Colonel Sponz Colonel Sponz (Colonel Sponsz) is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. Former Bordurian Chief of Police of Szohôd, Sponz masterminded the plot to kidnap Professor Calculus in The Calculus Affair. ...
Borduria is a fictional country in the adventures of Tintin. ...
The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for Committee for State Security, (Russian: ; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ...
Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) Spoiler warning: Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, literally Professor Tryphonius Sunflower) is a fictional character in the series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
Thomson and Thompson (Dupont et Dupond) This wooden toy depicts Thompson, albeit without his characteristic bowler hat. ...
Arturo Benedetto Giovanni Giuseppe Pietro Arcangelo Alfredo Cartoffoli da Milano The mad Italian driver in The Calculus Affair, who eagerly helped Tintin and Captain Haddock go after the Bordurian agents that have kidnapped Professor Calculus. While chasing the kidnappers, they speeded through a built-up area on market day, causing great destruction and chaos. However when they were finally stopped by a gendarme, who wanted to record their names, they escaped due to Arturo flabbergasting the gendarme with his overly long name, with the gendarme letting them off with a "don't do it again...". When they finally stopped the Syldavian car, however, they didn't find Calculus inside as he was hidden in a secret compartment. This greatly upset Arturo who then accused that Tintin and the Captain made the story up to get a free ride. He has great pride in Italian cars, due to being an Italian driver, which he claims are "number one in the world". The Calculus Affair (LAffaire Tournesol) is the eighteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Borduria is a fictional country in the adventures of Tintin. ...
Miller Miller is the calculating spymaster from an unnamed power who masterminds the plot to hijack the Syldavian rocket programme in Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon. He was probably the man who offered to help Frank Wolff out of his gambling debts in exchange for secrets when Wolff was working in the US: Miller is shown in one scene checking a list of personnel at the Centre where the Syldavian rockets are being built and presumably finds Wolff's name amongst them. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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A Spymaster is a ringleader of a spy ring, run by a secret service. ...
National motto: (English: rub yourself there, get stung ) Official language Syldavian Capital Klow Largest city Klow Population 642,000 (1939) Government Constitutional monarchy Head of State and Head of Government King Muskar XII (1939) Consolidation 1127 Currency Khôr National anthem Rejoice, Syldavia! National animal Pelican Syldavia is a fictional...
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 (On a marché sur la Lune), published in 1954 is the seventeenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
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. ...
Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic - President George W. Bush (R) - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized...
Miller is first seen on the plane to Syldavia in Destination Moon. He was seated in the row ahead of Tintin and Haddock and was astonished to hear the Captain mention the name "Calculus". This shows that he was already planning to take over the moon programme which Calculus was working on. He discreetly followed Tintin and Haddock through Klow airport but pulled back when he realised that they were being escorted by the local secret police or Zepo. Tintin and Snowy (original French language names: Tintin et Milou), a journalist and his canine companion, are a pair of adventurers who travel around the world in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. The...
Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) Spoiler warning: Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, literally Professor Tryphonius Sunflower) is a fictional character in the series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
Located in Kingdom of Syldavia Area 2,023 km² Population 122,000 Founded c. ...
Miller contacted Calculus's assistant Frank Wolff and blackmailed him into supplying him with the plans for the rockets which were being built at the Sprodj Atomic Research Centre.
With an associate known as the Baron, he then set about parachuting agents into the area of the Centre and obtaining the plans for the experimental unmanned rocket X-FLR6. When X-FLR6 was launched, Miller's technicians were able to intercept it and divert the rocket to their own territory. However, Tintin and Calculus had expected this and destroyed the rocket before it could land.
Miller threatened to kill Wolff whom he suspected of double-crossing him, but refrained when it was announced that a manned rocket was to go to the moon. Miller arranged for Colonel Jorgen, an old enemy of Tintin's, to be smuggled aboard. He himself stayed up-to-date with events by listening into radio broadcasts between Earth and the rocket. Ultimately though the attempt to get hold of the rocket failed, with Jorgen and Wolff both perishing in the process. The last appearance of Miller in the book was him cursing the rocket's crew and his agents' bungling, wishing that they would all perish in the return journey. 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. ...
Like any good spymaster, Miller designated various codenames to his targets and operations: the Centre was referred to as the "Main Workshop"; Calculus and Haddock were codenamed "Mammoth" and "Whale" respectively; and the operation to hijack the manned rocket to the moon was called "Ulysses", after the Greek hero who was himself a master of intrigue and deception (Homer refers to him as such in the Odyssey). Species Mammuthus africanavus African mammoth Mammuthus columbi Columbian mammoth Mammuthus exilis Pygmy mammoth Mammuthus imperator Imperial mammoth Mammuthus jeffersonii Jeffersonian mammoth Mammuthus trogontherii Steppe mammoth Mammuthus meridionalis Mammuthus subplanifrons South African mammoth Mammuthus primigenius Woolly mammoth Mammuthus lamarmorae Sardinian Dwarf Mammoth A mammoth is any of a number of an...
A Fin Whale The term whale is ambiguous: it can refer to all cetaceans, to just the larger ones, or only to members of particular families within the order Cetacea. ...
Head of Odysseus from a Greek 2nd century BC marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga Odysseus or Ulysses (Greek Odysseus; Latin: Ulixes or, less commonly, Ulysses), pronounced , is the main hero in Homers epic poem, the Odyssey, and plays a key...
Homer (Greek: ) is the name given to the supposed unitary author of the early Greek poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. ...
Beginning of the Odyssey The Odyssey (Greek ΟδÏσσεια (Odússeia) ) is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to the Ionian poet Homer. ...
Philippulus the Prophet Philippulus appeared in only one adventure, The Shooting Star. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The Shooting Star (Létoile Mysterieuse) 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 was an astronomer who worked at the observatory run by Professor Phostle. One night, while looking through the telescope at the observatory, he saw a ball of fire making its way towards Earth. This, and Phostle's prediction that it would cause the end of the world, drove him mad and he went around saying that it was a Divine Judgment on mankind. It was he that Tintin came across on the staircase after entering the observatory. An astronomer or astrophysicist is a person whose area of interest is astronomy or astrophysics. ...
MolÄ—tai Astronomical Observatory An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial and/or celestial events. ...
The Adventures of Tintin sports a vast array of secondary and tertiary characters. ...
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A lunatic (colloquially: loony) is commonly used term for a person who is mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable, a condition once called lunacy. ...
Divine Judgment means the judgment of God, notably in the Judeo-Christian tradition. ...
Philippulus later appeared on the streets of the town wearing white sheets to give himself a holy appearance, and beating a gong. He claimed to be a Prophet (of doom), that the world would end and that those who survived would die of cold, hunger and disease. Tintin advised him to go home and sleep it off. Angry at being challenged, Philippulus accused Tintin of being a spawn of the Devil and went as far as harassing him outside his apartment. Tintin threw some water on his head, but Philippulus appears to have had quite an affect on him since he then appeared in a nightmare Tintin had after falling asleep. (The atmosphere of doom and foreboding that occupied this part of the story very much conveys the feelings of the time (1942) when the war was still at its height.) In religion, a prophet (or prophetess) is a person who has directly encountered the numinous or the divine and serves as an intermediary with humanity. ...
Hunger is a feeling experienced when the glycogen level of the liver falls below a threshold, usually followed by a desire to eat. ...
The term disease refers to an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs function. ...
Satan frozen at the center of Cocytus, the ninth circle of Hell in Dantes Inferno. ...
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The end of the world did not come about, but a meteor landed in the Arctic Ocean and an expedition led by Phostle, Tintin and Captain Haddock was organised on board the ship Aurora in order to find it. Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
Philippulus had been taken to a mental asylum. On hearing of the expedition, he believed, in his twisted state, that it was an offence towards God. He escaped from the asylum, made his way to the port and caused trouble on the Aurora by ringing the bell (like he had his gong) and throwing things at people from the crow's nest. A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ...
This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ...
Crows Nest is the name of more than one place: Crows Nest, Indiana, United States Crows Nest, New South Wales, Australia Crows Nest, Queensland, Australia See also: Crowsnest Pass in Canada Crows Nest is also the name given to a structure on top of the mast of a ship...
In his madness, Philippulus even threatened to set off a piece of dynamite which had been left behind by a saboteur sent by the head of a rival expedition. On seeing Tintin climbing the ropes to stop him, Philippulus recognised the "servant of Satan" and threw the dynamite at him, causing it to bounce off Tintin's head and into the water. Dynamite is an explosive based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth (kieselguhr) as an adsorbent. ...
This article is about Sabotage sabotage can also refer to: an early Black Sabbath album (Sabotage), the Alfred Hitchcock films (Sabotage or Saboteur), a Beastie Boys song, or a type of shock site. ...
The Adventures of Tintin sports a vast array of secondary and tertiary characters. ...
Philippulus then climbed up to the top of the main mast to get away from Tintin and saying that his watchword was to go "higher and higher". He rejected all appeals for him to climb down, even accusing his old colleague Phostle of being a demon who had assumed his shape ! mizzen mast, mainmast and foremast Grand Turk The mast of a sailing ship is a tall vertical pole which supports the sails. ...
Tintin then used a megaphone to trick Philippulus into believing that a voice from Heaven was ordering him back to Earth. Philippulus quickly climbed down the mast from where he was taken back to the asylum. A megaphone, with a three-inch lighter to scale. ...
(In the original French version Captain Haddock claims that he is the only master of the ship after God and orders Philippulus to climb down; but Philippulus rejects this by claiming that it is he who is the only master after God. Tintin also claims to be the voice of God the Father when using the megaphone. Such references were taken out of the English translation, presumably in order to avoid offending the Church.) For other uses of the term Christian, see Christian (disambiguation). ...
Philippulus suffers from schizophrenia in a way similar to Sophocles Sarcophagus from the Cigars of the Pharaoh. He appears to represent the dilemmas some face over religious belief and scientific research. In his case the conflict takes a toll on his mind when the end-of-the-world appears imminent. The Adventures of Tintin sports a vast array of secondary and tertiary characters. ...
Cigars of the Pharaoh (Les Cigares du pharaon) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Professor Decimus Phostle - In French: fr:Professeur Calys
Professor Decimus Phostle, the astronomer Professor Decimus Phostle appeared in The Shooting Star as the director of an observatory whom Tintin consulted about a large bright star he saw in Ursa Major. Phostle claimed that it was a ball of fire which would hit the Earth and cause the end of the world ! He calculated that it would occur at 8.12½ a.m. the following morning. Phostle actually appeared to look forward to this, thinking that predicting the end of mankind would make him famous(!) Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The Shooting Star (Létoile Mysterieuse) 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. ...
MolÄ—tai Astronomical Observatory An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial and/or celestial events. ...
Ursa Major (IPA: ) is a constellation visible throughout the year in most of the northern hemisphere. ...
He turned out to be wrong however, since the meteor passed 48,000 km away from the Earth. Far from being pleased, Phostle was furious and took it out on his assistant who had made the estimates. However, a piece of the meteor broke off and collided with the Earth causing an earthquake. Using a spectroscope, Phostle discovered that the meteor possessed an unknown metal which he named Phostlite after himself. Photo of a burst of meteors with extended exposure time A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earths (or another bodys) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star or falling star. ...
An earthquake is a result from the sudden release of stored energy in the Earths crust that creates seismic waves. ...
A spectroscope is a device which measures the spectrum of light. ...
For a discovery of this importance, Phostle decided to celebrate with a packet of sweets (then again, the story was first published in 1942 at a time when most foodstuffs were rationed due to the war). To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Rationing is the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services: it restricts how much people are allowed to buy or consume. ...
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The meteorite had fallen in the Arctic Ocean and an expedition was organised which included Tintin and Captain Haddock on board the ship Aurora. Tintin and Snowy (original French language names: Tintin et Milou), a journalist and his canine companion, are a pair of adventurers who travel around the world in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. The...
Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
If Phostle came across in his first appearance as someone who sought fame and fortune whatever the cost (even that of the Earth), he appears to have matured a bit during the expedition. He even showed a paternal attitude to Tintin, advising the young man to put on warmer clothes as they approached the arctic circle; when the seaplane took off for the first time he expressed hope that nothing bad would happen to Tintin and the pilot; and when an SOS arrived from another ship he immediately stood up and announced that they would have to abandon the search for the meteorite and go to the rescue. (The SOS later turned out to be a fake sent by the sponsors of a rival expedition who tried in all sorts of underhand ways to destroy or delay the progress of the group led by Tintin, Haddock and Phostle.) Drawing of a captain and radio operator, titled The S.O.S SOS is the commonly used description for the International Morse code distress signal (· · · — — — · · ·). This distress signal was first adopted by the German government in radio regulations effective April 1, 1905, and became the worldwide standard when it was...
Tintin managed to reach the meteorite just before the rival party and claimed it. He took a piece of Phostlite back for study.
(When Hergé started to plan Tintin's moon adventure (Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon), he consulted Bernard Heuvelmans over the scientific aspects of the story. Heuvelmans even suggested a storyline which included Phostle, but this time as the villain! He would steal the plans for Calculus' rocket and sell them in order to buy a diamond for the actress Rita Hayworth! After drawing two pages of this story in which a radio interview with Calculus goes wrong because of his deafness, Hergé dropped this in favour of his own storyline.[3]) 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 (On a marché sur la Lune), published in 1954 is the seventeenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Bernard Heuvelmans (October 10, 1916 – August 22, 2001) was a scientist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as a founder of cryptozoology. ...
Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) Spoiler warning: Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, literally Professor Tryphonius Sunflower) is a fictional character in the series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1940s as the eras leading sex symbol. ...
Puschov - In French: fr:Wronzoff
Presumably a Jew given his huge beard, Puschov is the leader of the international gang of counterfeiters in The Black Island. He is also the master of Ranko, a gorilla inhabiting the gang's hideout on the Black Island whose nightly screams inspired legends of the island being occupied by a murderous beast. The Black Island (LIle Noire) is a 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. ...
Type species Troglodytes gorilla Savage, 1847 distribution of Gorilla Species Gorilla gorilla Gorilla beringei The gorilla, the largest of the living primates, is a ground-dwelling omnivore that inhabits the forests of Africa. ...
Sanders-Hardiman Expedition Members They are members of an expedition which brought an Incan mummy named Rascar Capac back to Europe in The Seven Crystal Balls. The members of the expedition are: Peter Clarkson (photographer), Professor Sanders-Hardiman (head of the expedition) , Professor Reedbuck, Mark Falconer, Professor Paul Cantonneau (who made an appearance in The Shooting Star), Doctor Midge (director of the Darwin Museum), and Professor Hercules Tarragon, who has the Rascar Capac mummy in his possession. They were cursed by the Incas as punishment for the theft of the mummy. They were put into comas and made to suffer nightmares by Chiquito. The Expedition's members were saved by Tintin who visited the Incas' temple to save Professor Calculus, who was also kidnapped by them. A mummy is a corpse whose skin and dried flesh have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or airlessness. ...
The Seven Crystal Balls (Les Sept Boules de cristal) is the thirteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
The Shooting Star (Létoile Mysterieuse) 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. ...
For other people of the same surname, and places and things named after Charles Darwin, see Darwin. ...
Sophocles Sarcophagus - In French: fr:Philémon Siclone
Sophocles Sarcophagus is an absent-minded Egyptologist in search of the tomb of the Pharaoh Kih-Oskh whom Tintin meets on a cruise ship at the beginning of Cigars of the Pharaoh. Later in the album, he goes mad and imagines himself to be the Pharaoh Rameses II; he is eventually committed to a sanitarium in India for treatment. He does not appear in any other Tintin stories, but is the first of a number of eccentric scientists and scholars which would culminate in Professor Calculus. The absent-minded professor is a stock character of popular fiction usually portrayed as an academic with important information, but whose focus on their learning leads them to ignore their surroundings. ...
An Egyptologist is any archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specializes in Egyptology, the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities. ...
Pharaoh was the ancient Egyptian name for the office of kingship. ...
Cigars of the Pharaoh (Les Cigares du pharaon) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Pharaoh was the ancient Egyptian name for the office of kingship. ...
Ramesses II, Abu Simbel Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great and alternatively transcribed as Ramses and Rameses) was an Egyptian pharaoh. ...
Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) Spoiler warning: Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, literally Professor Tryphonius Sunflower) is a fictional character in the series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
Bobby Smiles Image:Bobby smiles.gif Bobby Smiles - In French: fr:Bobby Smiles
Chicago boss of the rival gang fighting Al Capone. Smiles makes an appearance in Tintin in America and he and the reporter go after each other throughout much of the story. Smiles even manages to turn the American Indians against Tintin. He is eventually captured and sent to the police by Tintin. Nickname: Motto: “Urbs in Horto†(Latin: “City in a Gardenâ€), “I Will†Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country United States State Illinois Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area - City 234. ...
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s. ...
English-edition cover Tintin in America (originally Tintin en Amérique) 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. ...
A Sioux in traditional dress including war bonnet, circa 1908. ...
In the animated series, Smiles works for Capone, rather than against him. FBI mugshot of Capone, 1931 Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 _ January 25, 1947) more popularly known as Al Scarface Capone was a famous American gangster in the 1920s and 1930s, although his business card is reported to have said he was a used furniture dealer. ...
Ridgewell Ridgewell first appeared in The Broken Ear and later in Tintin and the Picaros. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
The Broken Ear (LOreille cassée) is one of the The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Tintin and the Picaros (Tintin et les Picaros) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
He was an English explorer who travelled into the South American rainforest occupied by the Arumbaya indians. Ridgewell settled down with the Arumbayas and decided to stay, not caring if the outside world knew if he was dead or alive. South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
The Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia. ...
When Tintin ventured into Arumbaya territory, Ridgewell fired darts at him in order to scare him away but later agreed to take him to the Arumbaya village for information.
Ridgewell did bring some of Western civilisation to the indians, such as introducing them to the game of golf. However the players do not appear to have mastered it well, on one occasion hitting Tintin's ear hole rather than the hole in the ground. This article is about the sport. ...
Ridgewell's influence on the Arumbayas resulted on him gaining an enemy in the local witch doctor. When Ridgewell was captured by an enemy tribe called the Rumbabas (bibaros in the original French), the witch doctor kept this from the other Arumbayas, hoping to be rid of his rival. When one Arumbaya expressed concern for Ridgewell the witch doctor threatened to turn him and his family into frogs. But Ridgewell got away and fired a dart into the witch doctor's bottom as punishment. Fortunately, unlike the Arumbayas, the Englishman did not use poisoned darts. A witch doctor (in southern Africa known as a Sangoma) often refers to exotic healers that believe that maladies are caused by magic and are therefore best cured by it, as opposed to science or developed medicine. ...
Ridgewell was also a ventriloquist and had a sense of humour, like when, in Tintin and the Picaros, he fired a dart into the cigar of General Alcazar with whom he was acquainted. Ventriloquism is an act of deception in which a person (ventriloquist) manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere. ...
Tintin and the Picaros (Tintin et les Picaros) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Tintin and General Alcazar, from the Swedish edition of Tintin and the Picaros. ...
Tharkey Tharkey is a Sherpa guide who helps Tintin locate the ill-fated Patna-Kathmandu flight carrying Chang Chong-Chen in Tintin in Tibet. See at the bottom of this page for other meanings of the word Sherpa. ...
Zhang Chongren Zhang Chongren or Chang Chung-jen 张充仁 (1907 - 1998), is a Chinese artist and sculptor best remembered as the friend of Herg , the Belgian comics writer and artist. ...
Tintin in Tibet (Tintin au Tibet) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring the young reporter Tintin as the hero. ...
Although reluctant to risk the perilous attempt to find Chang, whom he believes to be dead, Tharkey leads Tintin and the Captain to the crash site of the aircraft. After initially leaving the site to return to his village, he feels guilty for leaving them alone and returns just in time to save Tintin and Haddock, who are stranded on a cliff in a storm. However, he subsequently breaks his arm and must return to the plains after partly convalescing at a Buddhist monastery while Tintin and the Captain continue their search for Chang. Tintin and Snowy (original French language names: Tintin et Milou), a journalist and his canine companion, are a pair of adventurers who travel around the world in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. The...
Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
He may have been based on Tenzing Norgay, one of the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953. Tenzing Norgay (May 1914 – 9 May 1986), often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. ...
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is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Professor Topolino Alfredo Topolino is a Swiss scientist who is an expert in ultrasonics. His only appearance was in The Calculus Affair. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Ultrasound is a form of cyclic sound pressure with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, this limit being approximately 20 kilohertz (20,000 hertz). ...
The Calculus Affair (LAffaire Tournesol) is the eighteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Professor Calculus had consulted Topolino by mail on the development of an ultrasonic invention which was capable of shattering glass and china. Calculus was also working on a full scale model which could destroy metal, bricks, concrete and other stronger materials. Worried about the effects of such a weapon he arranged to meet with Topolino to talk about it. Professor Calculus (Professeur Tournesol) Spoiler warning: Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, literally Professor Tryphonius Sunflower) is a fictional character in the series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
What neither man knew was that Topolino's manservant Boris had intercepted their mail and warned the secret service of his native country Borduria. The head of the service, Colonel Sponsz, subsequently sent agents to kidnap Calculus. Borduria is a fictional country in the adventures of Tintin. ...
Colonel Sponz Colonel Sponz (Colonel Sponsz) is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. Former Bordurian Chief of Police of Szohôd, Sponz masterminded the plot to kidnap Professor Calculus in The Calculus Affair. ...
Aware that Calculus was in danger, Tintin and Captain Haddock tracked him to Topolino's house where they found the owner bound and gagged in his own cellar. Topolino angrily accused Calculus of attacking him. Tintin and Snowy (original French language names: Tintin et Milou), a journalist and his canine companion, are a pair of adventurers who travel around the world in The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. The...
Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
After talking things through with Haddock and Tintin, they concluded that the Calculus who had attacked him was an imposter. The intruder then pretended to be Professor Topolino and kidnapped Calculus when he arrived.
A minute after reaching this conclusion, Topolino's house was blown up by Bordurian agents. Luckily, everyone survived, and Haddock was able to drink down the contents of a bottle of wine Topolino had bought for his meeting with Calculus.
Note: Topolino is the Italian name of Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse headshot Mickey Mouse is an Academy Award-winning comic animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. ...
Igor Wagner - In French: fr:Igor Wagner
The quiet pianist working for Bianca Castafiore. In The Castafiore Emerald he is discovered to be a gambler who bets by telephone on races in secret. He has a small moustache and dresses formally in black with black shoes. After the thievery of Castafiore's emeralds, his attempts to help more often than not incriminated himself, as his footprints were found near Castafiore's window, he was suspiciously rummaging in the attic, and later broke a step on the staircase. He also tries to sneak out of his hour-long training sessions (dictated by Castafiore). Being the long-time accompanist for Castafiore, his name is made up of a humorous reference to two very well known composers: Igor Stravinsky, and Richard Wagner. A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ...
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. ...
The Castafiore Emerald (Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) 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. ...
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович СтравинÑкий, Igor FëdoroviÄ Stravinskij) (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a Russian composer, considered by many in both the West and his native land to be the most influential composer of 20th-century music. ...
Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or music dramas as he later came to call them). ...
Christopher Willoughby-Drupe and Marco Rizotto - In French: Jean-Loup De La Batellerie and Walter Rizzotto
Two reporters working for the magazine Paris Flash. They first appear in The Castafiore Emerald, where - to the fury of Captain Haddock and the amusement of Bianca Castafiore - they write a sensational article for their magazine speculating that the captain and the diva are engaged. They later appear in Flight 714 and Tintin and the Picaros. Rizotto makes a small appearance in the redrawn version of The Black Island. The Castafiore Emerald (Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) 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. ...
Captain Haddock (Capitaine Haddock) Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. ...
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. ...
Flight 714 (Vol 714 pour Sydney), first published in 1968, is the twenty-second of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
Tintin and the Picaros (Tintin et les Picaros) is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
The Black Island (LIle Noire) is a 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. ...
Wang Chen-Yee - In French: fr:Wang Jen-Ghié
Chinese leader of the Sons of the Dragon brotherhood who features in The Blue Lotus. The Blue Lotus (Le Lotus bleu), first published in 1936, is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...
- see Wang Chen-Yee
Wang Chen-Yee Wang Chen-Yee is a fictional character from the Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. His only appearance is in The Blue Lotus in which he plays an important part. ...
See also Goldstein is the name of a character in early editions of the graphic novel by Herge, Tintin au Pays de lOr Noir (Land of Black Gold). ...
Notes - ^ Leloup biography at Dupuis website
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- ^ Tintin The Complete Companion by Michael Farr, ISBN-10: 0719555221, ISBN-13: 978-0719555220
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