He left the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure, Tintin and Alph-Art, unfinished.

Tintin and Alph-Art () was the intended twenty-fourth and final book in the Tintin series, created by Belgian comics artist Hergé.

Upon their arrival, Tintin and Haddock spy out the land, observing Akass's villa from a distance, where they see Ramó Nash ( the pioneer of " Alph-Art " from whom Haddock bought his perspex " H ").

# Hergé, Tintin et l ' Alph-Art ( Casterman, 84pp, 1986 ) – ISBN 2-203-01701-5

# Hergé, Tintin et l ' Alph-Art ( Casterman, 62pp, 2004 ) – ISBN 2-203-00132-1

# Hergé, Tintin and Alph-Art ( Sundancer, 94 pp., 1990 )— ISBN 0-9512799-2-0

# Hergé, Tintin and Alph-Art ( Egmont, 64 pp., 2004 )— ISBN 1-4052-1448-1

# Hergé, Tintin and Alph-Art ( Little, Brown / Hachette, 64 pp., 2007 )— ISBN 9780316003759

* Tintin and Alph-Art Official Website

fr: Tintin et l ' Alph-Art

pt: Tintin et l ' Alph-Art

The comical Italian opera diva first appears in King Ottokar's Sceptre, and is also in The Seven Crystal Balls, The Calculus Affair, The Castafiore Emerald, Tintin and the Picaros, The Red Sea Sharks, and would have appeared in the unfinished Tintin and Alph-Art.

Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin ends in Ischia, which serves as the location of Endaddine Akass's villa in the unfinished book Tintin and Alph-Art.

It is one of only three Adventures of Tintin – the others being Tintin in the Congo and the unfinished Tintin and Alph-Art — that have not been used as a basis for any theatrical, radio, television or cinematic adaptations.

In the unfinished Tintin and Alph-Art, a character often thought to be Rastapopoulos in disguise — under the name of Endaddine Akass — appears.

* A character based on Hory appears in the incomplete final Tintin story " Tintin and Alph-Art ".

" However, in the unfinished album Tintin and Alph-Art, Tintin regained much of his old adventurous personality, actively investigating suspicious events and murder threats.

* Lisa Simpson is delighted at the sight of a rack with Tintin and Asterix comics in a comic book store, depicted in The Simpsons episode " Husbands and Knives ".

The last three complete Tintin adventures were produced at a much-reduced pace: The Castafiore Emerald in 1961, Flight 714 to Sydney in 1968, and Tintin and the Picaros in 1976.

On 30 May 2010, a life-sized bronze statue of Tintin and Snowy, and more than 200 other Tintin items, including many original panels by Hergé, sold for 1. 08 million euros ($ 1. 3 million USD ) at a Paris auction.

The gargantuan complex is last seen at the end of Explorers on the Moon, and is never again seen in the Tintin series.

Tintin attempts to return it, but the hotel he claimed to be staying at has never heard of him, and when Tintin calls a phone number found in his wallet, the man refuses to talk to him.

Realizing that they best take a lower profile, Tintin and Haddock walk away from the crash site and slip in unobserved at night into Wadesdah.

In the same relation, some are protagonists ( or at least positive forces ), such as Dexter in the animated series Dexter's Laboratory, Professor Calculus in The Adventures of Tintin, Dr. Muto, Professor Farnsworth, Philo in UHF, Dr. Benjamin Jeffcoat, or Dr. Emmett " Doc " Brown from the Back to the Future movies.

* Tintin room at the Castle

Since the 1980s, many comics are published exclusively as albums and do not appear in the magazines at all, while many magazines have disappeared, including greats like Tintin, À Suivre, Métal Hurlant and Pilote.

She continues her conversation with Tintin, telling him about her new spiritual leader, Endaddine Akass, with whom she intends to stay at his villa in Ischia, an island off the coast of Naples.

Tintin then visits the Garage de l ' Avenir at Leignault, where the mechanic tells him the location of Fourcart's car crash.

Tintin lights his lamp, and the " informer " shoots at him.

They shoot at Tintin, whose scooter careens off-road and crashes into a tree.

Tintin and Haddock stay the night at the villa on Castafiore's insistence.

It is at this point that The Adventures of Tintin ends, and what is going to happen next, or who Akass really is, is unknown.

It is possible that the scenes set at Marlinspike would have been reduced in favour of balance of the story — in the original manuscript, Tintin, Snowy and Haddock do not leave for Ischia until page 31.

In 1955, following a contractual dispute with his publisher Dupuis, Franquin went for a short stint at Tintin, the rival magazine.

Tintin in the Congo reflected the dominant colonialist ideology at that time.

For the first time, Tintin seems to be flesh and blood, and perhaps even has weaknesses ; for instance, he is at first uncharacteristically unwilling to travel to San Theodoros, where his friends have been falsely accused of espionage.

Tintin has a knack of meeting businessmen who appear friendly at first, but turn out to be far from ethical and can also be villains.

Tintin listens at the door where Capone and the other crook went.

* Tintin in the Land of the Soviets at Tintinologist. org

* Tintin and the Picaros at Tintinologist. org

In the 2010 Channel 4 programme Dom Joly and the Black Island, Joly and Tintinologist Michael Farr identify Castlebay and Kisimul as the locations of Kiltoch and the Ben More Castle in the Tintin adventure The Black Island, although the scenes of him attempting to reach it by boat and subsequently exploring it on foot were filmed at Lochranza Castle on the Isle of Arran.

* The Cult of Tintin at Tintinologist. org

* Guide to screen adaptions of " Tintin " at Tintinologist. org