When a meteor lands in the middle of the ocean, Tintin forms a crew to find the meteor, thanks to the help of a scientist who wants to name the rock. There is a race to see who can get to there first. Tintin's ship wins and he explore the meteor. What will he find there?

L'Étoile Mystérieuse (Tintin, #10)

Tintin, Captain Haddock and Calculus are on their way to Sydney for an international conference on space exploration. While their flight makes a refueling stop in Jakarta's Kemayoran Airport, they unexpectedly meet their old friend Piotr Skut, who is now the chief pilot for eccentric millionaire Laszlo Carreidas. A short time earlier, the Captain had erroneously taken the somewhat disheveled Carreidas for a tramp and surreptitiously slipped him a five-dollar bill (which later is taken by the oblivious Professor Calculus, making the millionaire laugh for the first time in years). When introduced to Carreidas, the Captain inadvertently shakes the hand of the millionaire's secretary, the tall, aloof Spalding.Unable to politely refuse Carreidas's offer of a ride on his prototype private jet, Tintin and his friends join the millionaire on the way to Sydney. Carreidas plays Battleship with the Captain, defeating him repeatedly by cheating with a hidden closed-circuit television camera and monitor. Unbeknownst to Carreidas and the others, Spalding and two of the pilots, Boehm and Colombani, have been recruited to hijack the plane and bring it to a deserted island called Pulau-Pulau Bompa in the Celebes Sea. Skut is not involved in the plot, and so he becomes a prisoner too. After a rough landing, our friends are escorted out of the plane, and a terrified Snowy breaks out of Tintin's arms and runs off. Armed guards shoot at him, and a mortified Tintin takes him for dead.A moment or two later, to Tintin's further shock, it turns out that the mastermind of the plot is none other than the evil Rastapopoulos, who declares that since "it's a bore to stop being a millionaire," it would be easier to simply take Carreidas's fortune. Accordingly, he has hatched an elaborate scheme to kidnap Carreidas and extract his Swiss bank account number. Captain Haddock's corrupt old nemesis, Allan, is working as Rastapopoulos's henchman. As for Tintin, the Captain and Calculus, Rastapopulos actually had no idea they would be accompanying the crotchety millionaire, but is nonetheless delighted to have the opportunity to exact revenge, and makes it quite evident that a very grim fate awaits our friends.Everyone is bound and held in Japanese World War II-era bunkers.Meanwhile, Rastapopoulos takes a defiant Carreidas to another World War II-era bunker and has him strapped to a chair, to be subjected to the tender mercies of the malevolent Dr. Krollspell. The corrupt doctor injects the millionaire with truth serum, so as to enable Rastapopulos to pry Carreidas's Swiss bank account number out of him. Unfortunately for Rastapopoulos, this plan quickly flounders. For Carreidas proves more than willing to tell the truth--about everything except the Swiss bank account. To Rastapopulos's fury, Carreidas launches into long disquisitions about his greedy, unscrupulous nature, boasting how he first stole a pear in 1910, at the age of four; shamed both his grandfather and his great-aunt to death; and has generally led a life of perfidy and corruption. Realizing the serum is defective, Rastapopulos becomes enraged, lunges at Krollspell (who is still holding the truth-drug syringe), and is accidentally injected with the serum, becoming intoxicated. He too recounts hideous deeds in a boasting manner, calling himself "the devil incarnate". From what Rastapopoulos says under the serum's influence, Krollspell realizes that the crime boss intends not to reward him as promised, but to betray and murder him.With the help of Snowy, who is not dead after all, Tintin and his friends manage to escape the bunker in which they are being imprisoned and find the bunker, high on the volcano, where Carreidas is held prisoner. Tintin captures Krollspell and Rastapopulos and escorts them to lower ground, intending to use them as hostages. However, the serum wears off and Rastapopulos escapes, despite Krollspell's warnings; the doctor is released afterwards and continues to accompany Tintin and Haddock, watching the still irritable Carreidas.Later, they discover, thanks to a "voice" Tintin is hearing, a hidden entrance to a statue-filled cave. Knowing that they are in danger, as Rastapopulos is gathering his armed guards to pursue and kill them, they decide to enter the cave and they discover a large hallway, leading to the inside of the volcano. They enter the volcano's core by triggering a hidden mechanism. Rastapopulos and his cohorts are not far behind, but they fail to find out how to open the secret passage. Instead they use explosives to make their own entrance.Penetrating deeper into the volcano, Tintin and his friends meet a strange man, Mik Kanrokitoff, a writer for magazine Space Week, who wears a transmitter on his ear and speaks with a heavy Russian accent (he is the voice that has guided Tintin to the cave). He immediately notes that they are all in great danger, because the explosion triggered by Rastapopoulos has made the volcano unstable and it will soon erupt. They follow Kanrokitoff, who has the power to influence their minds, as he knows exactly where to escape. It becomes hotter as they find their way out of the core of the volcano, and at one point a large flow of lava threatens them, but they find a pathway up that leads to an exit. Fleeing the lava flow, Carreidas pushes Haddock off the stairs, but fortunately Haddock grabs onto a stalagmite, narrowly escaping imminent death. The strange Kanrokitoff uses his mind trick to calm the impetuous Carreidas down. Meanwhile, Rastapopoulos and his henchmen flee the eruption by running down the outside of the volcano and plan to take refuge in a rubber dinghy.Once Tintin and his friends find their way out of the volcano, Kanrokitoff puts them all under his hypnosis. He uses his transmitter, and apparent psychic powers, to summon a flying saucer, piloted by unseen aliens with whom he is apparently familiar. The hypnotised group climb up a retractable ladder and board the saucer, narrowly escaping the volcano's dramatic eruption. Kanrokitoff spots the rubber dinghy and exchanges Tintin and his companions for Allan, Spalding, Rastapopulos and the treacherous pilots, who are whisked away in the saucer. The group - including Krollspell, who is later deposited by the saucer at his institute in Cairo - awakes from hypnosis and cannot remember what happened to them. The party is eventually rescued, but only Snowy, who cannot speak, has any recollection of the hijacking and alien abduction.

Vol 714 pour Sydney

Hergé, creator of the world-wide sensation "Tintin", began this new series in 1935, about an adventuring pair of siblings, and their pet monkey. Although he would enjoy writing younger characters, with more vivid imaginations, the artist often found himself frustrated by the fact that - compared to his famous boy reporter - Jo and Zette had less freedom to travel, due to their being children.

Le Manitoba ne répond plus

Investigating a mysterious plane crash, Tintin discovers he's onto something big! The case leads Tintin to Scotland, where he learns of a monster that stalks a lonely island.

L'île noire

À peine rentré d'URSS, Tintin repart pour le Congo. Sorcier du royaume des Babaoro'm, en lutte contre une bande de gangsters à la solde d'Al Capone. Le plus célèbre de nos reporters sortira bien sûr triomphant de toutes ces aventures. Pour notre plus grand plaisir à tous.

Les aventures de Tintin Tome 2 : Tintin au Congo

Vous allez lire la première version des aventures de Tintin et ses amis sur la lune. Ce récit, prépublie entre 1950 et 1953 dans le journal Tintin sous le titre unique de On a marché sur la lune, compte 117 pages qui ont été restaurées. Par la suite, Hergé toujours soucieux d'être en conformité avec la vérité scientifique supprimera certaines séquences et augmentera le nombre de pages qui seront alors réparties sur les deux albums devenus célèbres : Objectif lune et On a marché sur la lune.

Tintin les premiers pas sur la lune

Tintin en el tibet

Der Sonnentempel

Le volume 9 de cette série du Feuilleton intégral réunit quatre épisodes de l'oeuvre d'Hergé qui constituent, par le caractère exceptionnel et très inhabituel de leur support, une parenthèse de publication. Peu connue, elle vient s'inscrire entre le défunt Petit Vingtième et le futur journal Tintin. Hormis le temps d'une brève apparition dans Le Soir Jeunesse, les aventures de Tintin vont, faute de papier, devoir se poursuivre dans un espace réduit à des strips de plus en plus modestes, au bas d'une page du Soir, un quotidien placé sous le contrôle de l'Occupant, précipitant Hergé dans un milieu compromettant qu'il n'avait pas particulièrement recherché. La parenthèse ne nous apparaît que considérée sous cet éclairage car les quatre titres vont constituer une révolution tant graphique que narrative dont les effets vont peser durable- ment sur la façon dont Hergé concevra les aventures du reporter. Cette période, commencée en octobre 1940, s'achèvera avec le prologue du Temple du soleil (renommé plus tard Les 7 Boules de cristal) interrompu par la libération de Bruxelles, en septembre 1944. Cette partie de l'aventure, poursuivie dès 1946 dans le journal Tintin, sera intégrée au volume suivant pour une raison impérative de continuité narrative.

L'Étoile Mystérieuse (Tintin, #10)

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