Atomic Books "Literary Finds for Mutated Minds"
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Tintin & Co.
Sale Price: $29.95
By: Michael Farr
Publisher: Last Gasp
Page Count: 131pp
Size: 9 x 12
Notes: Hardcover, Color
Date Published: March 2008

Leading British Tintinologist and journalist, Michael Farr, presents his choice of the dozen most important and colorful characters from The Adventures of Tintin in Tintin & Co., revealing their origins, inspirations, and the source of their enduring fascination.

This handsome, lavishly-illustrated volume takes a closer look at the remarkable cast that enriches the adventures:

  • Snowy from Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, 1929-30
  • Coco from Tintin in the Congo
  • Snowy and arch-villain Boerto Rastapopoulos from Tintin in America
  • Boerto Rastapopoulos and the hapless Thom(p)sons in Cigars of the Pharaoh
  • Boerto in The Blue Lotus
  • the unpredictable Captain Haddock in The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941)
  • the inventor Professor Calculus, and prima donna Banica Castafiore, in King Ottokar's Sceptre (1938)
  • the delinquent Arab prince Abdullah
  • the smug insurance salesman Jolyon Wagg
  • the constant revolutionary General Alcazar
  • and the sinisterly Teutonic villain Muller.

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