Cigars of the Pharaon

Cigars of the Pharaon ( the adventures Tintin to defer in the East: The Cigars of the Pharaon , Hergé, 1934) is the fourth album of Cartoon of the adventures of Tintin , published in black and white of 1932 to 1934.

Synopsis

Tintin is in cruising bound for the the Far East. On board, it meets a eccentric Egyptologist, Philémon Siclone, with the research of the tomb of the Pharaon Kih-Oskh. Tintin becomes soon the target of a mysterious man, who seeks with débarasser of him while making accept the police force that it transports of opium with him. Tintin is stopped by two agents of the safety, X33 and X33 (a) (alias Dupont and Dupond), which retain it captive, with Milou, aboard steamer. Whereas the boat makes a stopover with Port-Saïd, Tintin and Milou escape, and they find shortly after Philémon Siclone. Tintin accepts to accompany it in its forwarding with research by the tomb by Kih-Oskh. In the tomb, Tintin and Milou discover mysterious cigars, but are removed…

Given up at sea, they are saved and unloaded in Arabia, where they are always sought by Dupondt. From there, after several adventures, they arrive in India at the Maharajah of Rawajpoutalah. They attack then the traffic of Opium and dismantle a gang of traffickers partly. Finally, Tintin discovers that the cigars contained opium in question. But the identity of the chief of the gang (in other words, the man which tried to make believe that it transported opium with him on the steamer) is always unknown for him…

Data sheet

Scenario: Hergé
Drawings: Hergé
Editor: Casterman
Places: Belgium, Egypt, India
Time: 1934

Context

One can note that this album appears only twelve years after the royal discovery of the tomb of the Pharaon Toutankhamon, and the scene of disappearance of the Egyptologist S going to the tomb Kih-Oskh refers to alleged the " Curse of the Pharaon ".

Around the album

In the first edition of the original version, Sheik Patrash Pasha shows in Tintin the album Tintin in Congo. In the following editions it is Tintin in America .

Actuellement Sheik Patrash Pasha shows the album Objectif the Moon , however published after the Cigars of the Pharaon . That can seem strange, but is due to the fact that the second version of the album was published after Objectif the Moon .

Edgar Pierre Jacobs helped Hergé with the realization of the second version. It appears even in the album and also on the cover in the person of E.P. Jacobini (page 8 puts 1) the 14th scientist who has " violated the burial of the Pharaon Kih-Oskh". The Doctor Grossgrabenstein (character of Jacobs, appeared in the series Blake and Mortimer, in the album the Mystery of the large pyramid ) is him also among these scientists.

One also notes that other scientists have an evoking name or one of the protagonists of discovered tomb of Toutankhamon (Mr. CARNAWAL = Lord Carnarvon ) or simply the word Hiéroglyphe hardly disguised: I.E.ROGHLIFF .

In the first version color, an error slipped into the scene of the meal to the palate of Maharadja: when Tintin tells him " Good, us them tenons." , one saw it flanked of Milou, whereas it was to be a prisoner of Dupondt. It thus had to be removed. But an error of the same type was not corrected, indeed when Tintin intervenes in film of Rastapopoulos, Milou starts to continue one of the actors, in the following box it is beside Tintin then in a third one sees it returning with a piece of fabric.

In the version " Tintin in Congo" (section fabric) the fifth label presents the chart with the stopovers of Port-Saïd, Aden, Bombai, Colombo, Singapore, Hong-Kong and Shanghai as well as known as Tintin with his/her companion with legs. However in the following version " Objective lune" (section paperboard) the chart shows a way which makes a loop inside the only Mediterranean basin with the stopovers of Tangier, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Port-Said, Istanbul, Naples, Marseilles and Gibraltar… This error is corrected in the versions not-Frenchwomen.

Adaptations

Other versions of the album

The first version of the Cigares of the Pharaon was published in 1934. The setting colors was only done as for it in 1955, that is to say nine years after that of the blue Lotus . The album was completely redrawn and certain removed scenes.

Animated version

This album was adapted in the animated series of 1992

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