Prior to creating the Asterix series, Goscinny and Uderzo had previously had success with their series Oumpah-pah, which was published in the Tintin magazine.

However, Hergé accepted an offer to produce a new Tintin strip in Le Soir, Brussels ' leading French daily, which had been appropriated as the mouthpiece of the occupation forces.

Firstly, paper shortages forced Tintin to be published in a daily three-or four-frame strip, rather than the two full pages every week which had been the practice on Le Petit Vingtième.

In fact, one or two stories published before the war had been critical of fascism ; most prominently, King Ottokar's Sceptre showed Tintin working to defeat a coup attempt that could be seen as an allegory of the Anschluss, Nazi Germany's takeover of Austria.

Published in Tintin magazine from September 1958 to November 1959, Tintin in Tibet sent Tintin to the Himalayas in search of Chang Chong-Chen, the Chinese boy he had befriended in The Blue Lotus.

However, by this time Tintin had begun to move into other media.

From the start of Tintin magazine, Raymond Leblanc had used Tintin for merchandising and advertisements.

Stephen Duffy, lead singer of Duran Duran before they struck fame, had a UK number 4 hit with " Kiss Me " under the name Stephen " Tintin " Duffy ; he had to drop the nickname, however, under pressure of a copyright infringement suit.

Tintin had a hand in defusing the situation by returning the sceptre just before St Vladmir's day.

The Africans agree to help Haddock sail the ship to neutral territory in Djibouti, while Tintin and Skut attempt to fix the radio, which had been smashed.

At this point the Ramona is saved by the arrival of combat aircraft from a nearby US Navy cruiser, the USS Los Angeles, whose crew had been radioed by Tintin.

The next morning, Tintin leaves the Hall for the village on his motor scooter, and is pursued by the same men who had attacked him in the Mercedes.

It was not such a surprising request ; de Moor had worked with Hergé since 1951, was responsible for running the Studios Hergé in his absence, adapted the animated film Tintin and the Lake of Sharks into comic-strip form, and worked on the previous book Tintin and the Picaros with Hergé alone.

Franquin later returned to Spirou, but his contractual commitment to Tintin meant that he had to contribute to both magazines, an unusual arrangement in the comic industry.

Tintin and his associates had their minor part in the proceedings, although Tintin concocted the plan, and insisted that there be no bloodshed.

They had acquired several licences for popular Franco-Belgian comics, such as Tintin, Asterix and Les Tuniques Bleues.

After the invasion, publication of Le Petit Vingtième, the children's newspaper supplement that had published his previous Tintin adventures, was stopped and Hergé had to look for another means of publication.

Names in Tintin are not always literally translated but rather turned into a different joke.

Some other comics have also been translated into Breton, including Tintin, Spirou, Titeuf, Hägar the Horrible, Peanuts and Yakari.

Several traditionally animated Tintin films have also been made, beginning with The Calculus Case in 1961.

In music, Tintin has been the inspiration to a number of bands and musicians.

Hergé has been lauded as " creating in art a powerful graphic record of the 20th century's tortured history " through his work on Tintin.

When Tintin and Haddock return home, they discover that the Emir's bratty, incorrigibly spoiled son Abdullah has been sent there for protection, along with a colorful entourage of servants and dignitaries who have established a bedouin-bivouac in the great hall of Marlinspike Hall.

Tintin decides to go to Khemed and rescue the emir, who has been overthrown by Sheikh Bab El Ehr.

A statue has been erected to Hergé, creator of The Adventures of Tintin.

Likewise, in continental Europe, both original book-length stories such as La rivolta dei racchi ( 1967 ) by Guido Buzzelli, and collections of comic strips have been commonly published in hardcover volumes, often called " albums ", since the end of the 19th century ( including Franco-Belgian comics series such as " The Adventures of Tintin " and " Lieutenant Blueberry ", and Italian series such as " Corto Maltese ").

Knowing that he has been recognized, Akass's assistant sends Tintin away and telephones someone, and then agrees to " take care of " Tintin.

Her surname may have been taken from the name of a publishing house, l ' imprimeur Vandezande, which published a Tintin calendar in 1946.

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.

The last controversial album is Tintin and the Picaros, which has been seen both as left-wing and right-wing.

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.

The word, though not the underlying meaning ( see malapropism ), has been popularized, due to its use as an imprecation by Captain Haddock in the English translations of The Adventures of Tintin series of books.

The reference was dropped from the redrawn coloured edition, presumably because Pickford's name would not have been recognized by the new generation of Tintin readers.

His subsequent investigation and the kidnapping near his apartment of a Japanese man interested in giving a letter to him leads Tintin to a ship called Karaboudjan, where he is abducted by a syndicate of criminals who have been hiding opium in the crab tins.

When Methuen was translating the Adventures of Tintin into English, Israel had long since been in existence, and Methuen asked for it to be edited.

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.

It is a matter of debate among Tintin fans whether Tintin's arch-enemy Rastapopoulos makes his first appearance in this book ( albeit simply in a one-off cameo ).

Hergé displayed the Bolsheviks and their Marxist-Leninist ideology as being " absolute Evil ", and set Tintin to fight against them, but as Jean-Marie Apostolidès noted, " because does not understand Soviet government's origin, he does not directly engage with but merely observes this world of misery ", simply fighting Bolsheviks rather than fomenting counter-revolution to actively overthrow them.

He is referenced in Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, The Seven Crystal Balls published in 1944 by Le Soir.

The notable qualities of the Tintin stories include their vivid humanism, a realistic feel produced by meticulous and wide ranging research, and Hergé's ligne claire drawing style.

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, by " Hergé ", appeared in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième on 10 January 1929, and ran until 8 May 1930.

The character of Tintin was partly inspired by Georges's brother Paul Remi, an officer in the Belgian army.

In June he began the second Tintin adventure, Tintin in the Congo ( then the colony of Belgian Congo ), followed by Tintin in America and Cigars of the Pharaoh.

The early Tintin adventures each took about a year to complete, after which they were released in book form by Le Petit Vingtième and, from 1934, by the Casterman publishing house.

The crew Tintin joined was composed of Europeans from Axis or neutral countries (" Europe ") while their underhanded rivals were Americans ( although in later editions the US flag was removed from the rival ship ; see the image on the The Shooting Star page ), financed by a person with a Jewish name and what Nazi propagandists called " Jewish features.

Following his expressed desire not to have Tintin handled by another artist, it was published posthumously as a set of sketches and notes in 1986.

* The Blue Lotus, a Tintin book by Hergé

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.

In lighter media, a few stars of the comic industry made their debut, including Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, who would appear in over 200 million comic books in 60 languages.

; The Franco-Belgian comics: The Comic strip The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular 20th century European comics, was created in 1929 by Hergé.

Syldavia ( Cyrillic: Зилдaвиa ) is a fictional Balkan kingdom featured in The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé.

According to a brochure read by Tintin on his plane, Syldavia gained independence from Ottoman empire early, resembling Montenegro and Serbia.

The Red Sea Sharks is the nineteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero.

At Wadesdah Airport in Khemed, Tintin and Haddock are turned back by customs, while someone ( presumably an agent of Dawson ) plants a bomb on the plane to " take care of them ".