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It appeared between June of 1930 and June of 1931 in Le Petit Vingtième (the children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle). The story was published as an album in 1931, in black and white form. It was re-drawn in 1946, with additional changes in 1975. Le Petit Vingtième (The Little Twentieth) was the weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century) from 1928 to 1940. ...

Storyline

Tintin in the Congo begins with Tintin and Snowy departing from Antwerp on a ship bound for the Belgian Congo. Snowy has several accidents on board the ship, including an encounter with a stowaway, but eventually they arrive safe and well in the Congo. Here, they rent a car and hire a boy called Coco. They set out into the Congo where Tintin goes out to hunt. 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... For other uses, see Antwerp (disambiguation). ... Motto: Travail et Progres (Work and Progress) The Belgian Congo Capital Léopoldville/Leopoldstad Political structure Colony Governor  - 1908-1910 Baron Wahis  - 1946-1951 Eugène Jacques Pierre Louis Jungers  - 1958-1960 Henri Arthur Adolf Marie Christopher Cornelis History  - Established 15 November, 1908  - Congolese independence 30 June, 1960 The Belgian... A stowaway (also stoweaway) is a person who travels illegally, by airplane, bus, ship or train. ...

Upon returning to Coco, Tintin finds that his car has been stolen by a Caucasian whom Snowy recognises as the stowaway. They recover the car but the man escapes.

Later on, Tintin, Snowy and Coco find their way to a native village. However, the man who stole the car joins forces with the village medicine man, and tries several times, all unsuccessful, to dispose of Tintin. In his last attempt, the crook tries to hang Tintin above a river full of crocodiles so that they can eat him, but Tintin is rescued by a Belgian missionary. Medicine man is an English term used to describe Native American religious figures; such individuals are analogous to shamans. ... Genera Mecistops Crocodylus Osteolaemus See full taxonomy. ... Two Mormon missionaries A missionary is traditionally defined as a propagator of religion who works to convert those outside that community; someone who proselytizes. ...

Tintin and Snowy are taken to a missionary station where the ever-persistent crook once again tries to get at Tintin. Tintin resolves to end this and in the final struggle it is the crook that is eaten by crocodiles, though Tintin did not intend it.

Tintin finds a letter telling the crook to get rid of him. The letter is signed A.C., which stands for Al Capone, who is operating a diamond smuggling ring in the Congo. Tintin reveals the operation, and the gang is captured. “Capone” redirects here. ... This article is about the gemstone. ...

Finally Tintin can get back to enjoying the African wildlife. However, he and Snowy end up getting chased by a horde of buffalo. Before they are trampled, a plane swoops down and saves them. They are to be taken home in order to prepare for their next adventure, Tintin in America. A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... Binomial name Syncerus caffer (Sparrman, 1779) Subspecies The African Buffalo or Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a bovid from the family of the Bovidae. ... Tintin in America (Tintin en Amérique) 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. ...

Controversy

The edition involved in the UK controversy

Tintin in the Congo has often been criticized as having racist and colonialist views, as well as several scenes of violence against animals. Hergé has later claimed that he was only portraying the naïve views of the time. When the album was redrawn in 1946, Hergé removed several references to the fact that the Congo was at that time a Belgian colony. This failed to mollify critics, however. Because of its controversial subject matter, the album was previously only published as a facsimile black and white edition in English. However, a colour English edition was finally published in September 2005, by Egmont Publishing, with a foreword explaining the historical context (a similar move had been employed for the 1983 translation of The Blue Lotus). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Racism is the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior or inferior to members of other races. ... It has been suggested that Benign colonialism be merged into this article or section. ... Georges Prosper Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ... This article is about a type of political territory. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in September September 28 : Constance Baker Motley September 25 : M. Scott Peck September 25 : Don Adams September 20 : Simon Wiesenthal September 14 : Robert Wise September 10 : Hermann Bondi September 8 : Donald Horne September 7 : Moussa Arafat... Egmont Books are publishers of childrens books for all ages, from picture books to teen fiction. ... 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. ...

When the album was to be published in Scandinavia, the publishers objected to the infamous scene on page 56 of the colour album, where Tintin blows up a rhinoceros with a stick of dynamite. They asked the page to be redrawn, and Hergé complied. Instead of blowing the animal to pieces, the rhino accidentally fires the gun of the sleeping Tintin, gets scared and runs away. This page was also used in the English and German translations. Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe which includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ... Black Rhino from Howletts Wild Animal Park For other uses, see Rhinoceros (disambiguation). ... Dynamite is an explosive based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth (kieselguhr) as an adsorbent. ...

In mid-July 2007, the UK's equal rights body, the Commission for Racial Equality called on high-street shops to remove the book from their shelves after a complaint by David Enright, a human rights lawyer who came across the book in the children's section of the high-street chain Borders whilst shopping with his African wife and two sons. The shop later moved the book from the children's section to the area reserved for adult graphic novels. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Commission commented "the only place that it might be acceptable for this to be displayed would be in a museum, with a big sign saying 'old fashioned, racist claptrap'". Borders said that they were committed to let their "customers make the choice". The retailer WHSmith said that the book was sold on its website but with a label which recommended it for readers aged 16 and over.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} By 14 July, following widespread media coverage, sales of the book had rocketed by 3,800%, with the book having climbed to 5th place on Amazon.co.uk's best-seller list, up from 4,343rd four days earlier.^[6][7][8]. The Commission for Racial Equality is a non-governmental organisation in the United Kingdom which tackles racial discrimination and promotes racial equality. ... Borders Group (NYSE: BGP) is an international bookseller based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ... This article is about the bookshop chain; for the businessman and politician of that name, see William Henry Smith. ... is the 195th day of the year (196th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Amazon. ... A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on a list of top-sellers. ...

The Times Literary Supplement, however, raising the portrayal of "bare-torsoed men with tomahawks" in Tintin in America and "worthies in kilts and tam o'shanters, drinking whisky by the barrel" in The Black Island, quoted Michael Farr in Tintin: the complete companion as saying "Of all the adventures, Tintin in the Congo is today the one most likely to be encountered in Africa", and suggested that a special case was being made against negative images of black people ^[9]. The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. ... Tintin in America (Tintin en Amérique) 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. ... Michael Farr is a leading British Tintinologist, that is, an expert on the world of the comic Tintin and its creator, Hergé. He has written numerous books on the subject as well as translating several others into English. ...

In August 2007, a complaint was filed in Brussels, Belgium, by a Congolese student, Bienvenu Mbutu Mondondo, who was studying political science, and claimed the book was an insult to the Congolese people. Public prosecutors are investigating, and the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism warned against political over-correctness.^[10] The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Political Science is the field concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behaviour. ... The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism[1] (CEOOR) (Dutch: Centrum voor gelijkheid van kansen en voor racismebestrijding, French: Centre pour légalité des chances et la lutte contre le racisme or CECLR) is a Belgian government agency under the responsibility of the Prime Minister of Belgium. ... Political correctness is the alteration of language to redress real or alleged injustices and discrimination or to avoid offense. ...

Publishers' Weekly reported on October 1, 2007 that "Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, which had been planning to publish Tintin in the Congo, ...has quietly pulled the title from its fall list.... The publisher also said it will not include the book in a forthcoming box set of all 24 books in the Tintin series."^[11]

Notes

• Contrary to popular belief, this is not the first album in which the Thompsons appear. Their first appearance was in Cigars of the Pharaoh. They were added to Tintin in the Congo when it was redrawn in 1946.
• Tintin is mouthless in the original black and white edition from 1930.
• As with the previous adventure, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, Le Petit Vingtième staged a triumphant return of "Tintin" and "Snowy" to Brussels on Thursday 9 July 1931. They were accompanied by ten Congolese and met by Hergé himself and Quick and Flupke. The event was reported in the newspaper.
• In the Portuguese magazine O Papagaio the story was called Tim-Tim em Angola (Tintin in Angola). In that version he works for O Papagaio.
• When Egmont took over publishing of the Tintin books in the UK, they did not include Tintin in the Congo in their reprints, although they did include Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and it was excluded until 2006, when a "collector's edition" in colour, including a brief foreword by translators Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner, was printed.
• In the original version, Tintin hunts the rogue elephant at night; but in the coloured version, it appears that it is daylight all the time, making Tintin's joke about the sun giving him a bright idea - after the rogue elephant has chased him and Snowy up a tree somewhat superfluous.
• In Tintin in the Congo, Tintin becomes a sorcerer for the Babaoru'm Kingdom. The name comes from Baba au rhum, a French confection. Another instance of the use of the name is in the French edition of the comic series Asterix, in which one of the four fortified Roman camps surrounding Asterix's village is called Babaorum.
• Little, Brown Publishers was set to publish the color version of the book in the USA, but it was announced on October 3, 2007, that its publication was canceled because of its racism, despite having ISBN 9780316003735 assigned to it. It was, however included in the complete Tintin collection gift set (ISBN 9780316006682) that was published in November 2007.

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External links

• Tintin in the Congo at Tintinologist.org