The Black Island

the Black Island ( the Adventures Tintin to defer: The Black Island , Hergé, 1938) is the seventh album of Cartoon of the adventures of Tintin , published in black and white in the pages of the Petit Twentieth , supplement of the newspaper the Twentieth Century .

Synopsis

While walking in full shift, Tintin sees landing an aircraft in distress. He proposes his assistance with the pilot and the passenger, but they draw to him above. Hardly left the hospital, Tintin goes up the track of its attackers in England, where the plane was crushed…

The indices lead it at some Dr. Müller. After having succeeded in escaping to him, Tintin continues it until in Scotland. It finds its trace on the Noire island, famous as being the reference mark of a monstrous animal. Tintin goes there nevertheless and discovers there the general headquarter of the band of Müller: the doctor and his comparses are counterfeiters. Tintin ends up wedging them and revealing the true nature of the animal: a Gorilla.

Anecdotes

This album is undoubtedly that of Tintin, and even perhaps of all the cartoon, whom comprises the most breakdowns of plane , either real, or evoked.
the presentation of all the sequence of the air meeting on a screen of Télévision does not owe anything randomly. It was about a leading-edge technology at the time and the Great Britain was regarded as the most advanced country of Europe in the field, it with what Hergé referred in this way.
celebrates It castle dominating the island would have been inspired either by the island of Gold in the Var, or by the Old man-castle of the Island of Yeu, or by the Scottish castle of Lochranza
the company of counterfeit money of the Dr. Müller refers, in a hidden way, with the attempts at sabotage of the Démocratie in the Europe of the Années 1930, and with the Nazisme (Müller is a German name); the following episode, the Sceptre of Ottokar, will refer there more directly. One can raise that the displacement of Dr. Müller in Great Britain surprisingly evokes a historical episode posterior , the landing of Rudolf Hess in Scotland.
In this adventure, Hergé put in scene a gorilla named Ranko which unquestionably points out King Kong whose film (the first version) had left a few years earlier.

Adaptations

Other versions of the album

The first version of the Black Island date of 1938, and it is in 1943 that the edition colors took place. In 1965, Hergé entirely redrew the album at the request of its English editors who judged the representation of the Great Britain nonin conformity with reality. One can notice a certain imbalance between the modern drawing and Tintin which is always that of the Thirties… In fact, the Black Island is the only album of the series which knew three versions published different.

Animated version

This album was adapted in the animated series of 1962 and in the animated series of 1992

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