Coke in stock

Coke in stock is an album of the series of the Aventures of Tintin and Milou .

This adventure is especially remarkable by the presence of a great number of characters discovered in the preceding albums:

Hergé benefits from it to give them more thickness in this account.

Synopsis

While leaving a Cinema, the Capitaine Haddock is knocked by chance with the Général Alcazar, which loses its wallet. Tintin tries to bring it back to him, but the general is unknown with the hotel where it is supposed to place. Tintin and the Haddock captain ends up finding it in another hotel, in conversation with Dawson, the ex-chief of the international police force of Shanghai. Haddock returns the wallet to him while Tintin follows Dawson discreetly, and surprises a discussion on a mysterious traffic of weapons. While eclipsing, Tintin does not realize that it was located. Of return to the Castle of Moulinsart, he discovers that Abdallah and his continuation settled there to flee a Coup d'etat to the Khemed against the father of Abdallah, the emir Ben Kalish Ezab. Tintin (wanting to help the emir) and Haddock (wanting to flee Abdallah) decide to go to Khemed…

With the Airport of Wadesdah, the customs drive back them without explanation and a bends is placed on their aircraft. The Attentat fails miraculeusement, a fire of engine forcing the Avion to land before the bomb does not explode. Tintin and Haddock, helped by Oliviera da Figueira, overlap to the place where the emir (the attentive readers took refuge will recognize the city which inspired Hergé: Pétra, in Jordan). The emir explains to them that Bab El Ehr, which reversed it, receives weapons and planes of the Marquis Di Gorgonzola, which finances these purchases by the draft of the slaves.

Tintin and Haddock, leave for the coast and embark in a Bateau to inquire into this traffic, but their boat is run at the time of an air attack. Taken refuge on a Radeau, they collect Piotr Szut, a attacking pilot that Tintin cut down. The shipwrecked men are then helped by the yacht of the richissime Di Gorgonzola (which is not other than Rastapopoulos, film the producer of the Cigares of the Pharaon ). He can nothing try against them, Tintin and Haddock having been recognized by one of the croisierists, celebrates it professional singer Bianca Castafiore.

They are discreetly transferred the following night on a cargo liner, the Ramona, where they are made prisoners by the crew which works for Di Gorgonzola (the Haddock captain finds on this occasion an old knowledge, Allan). A fire occurs during the night on the ship and the crew flees leaving behind them Tintin, Haddock and Szut, which manages to extinguish fire. By doing this, they discover that transported in its holds a great number of Africans Cleaned it, in pilgrimage for Mecque. By excavating the boat, Tintin finds a bit of paper on which is registered a mysterious message, intimating the order to deliver coke . The cargo liner is then accosted by an Arab “tradesman” who asks them to inspect “coke”: it is actually the code name given to the African slaves (this album was written before coke does not mean Cocaïne. The term coke on a cargo liner applies normally to the coal, this term innocent is used here by the smugglers to indicate the Esclave S African blacks). The trafficker of slave is finally driven out, under the gibes of the Captain.

Di Gorgonzola learns by the trafficker from slaves that Cleaned it is except and tries to run it using a Sous-marin launcher of Torpille S then of a mine transported by a Homme-grenouille. These attempts fail thanks to the intervention of U.S. Navy, called with the rescue, which also hails the Yacht of Rastapopoulos. This last however manages to escape in a miniature submarine. The slave die nevertheless is dismantled and the scandal is reported by the press to the return of Tintin and the captain to Moulinsart. Those find their released residence of Abdallah, the emir Ben Kalish Ezab having recovered the capacity in Khémed. On the other hand, they will have to support the inénarrable Séraphin Lampion…

Others

The first version of the album, the discussion enters the black slaves and the Haddock Captain is done with the manner " small nègre". Various associations having protested so that the slaves speak in French about most correct, Hergé modified the dialog then. The slaves express themselves in literary French whereas the captain continues to speak " to them; small nègre". It results from it that this shift highlighting the role of the cultural prejudice whose the Captain is victim returns even more the situation amusing.

In the same way he was asked as the written letter by the emir and who showed in the first version a difficulty of expression in a foreign language is transformed into example of control of the poetic literature.

There is an obvious difference between the cartoon and the animated series which of it is drawn. Indeed, so in the cartoon the emir refuses to treat with Arabair because this one made of the traffic of slaves, in the cartoon, the traffic of slaves does not shock it, it is the fact that the company refuses to yield to a whim of his/her son (that the planes make some loppings before landing…) who leads it to this refusal.

The cover is a direct allusion to the table of Géricault the Raft of the Jellyfish , allusion explicit in the album.

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