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Tintin
Variations
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Tintin |
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| Several of the albums have been "updated" by Hergé. The layout of the first albums (Congo & America) is totally different in their post-war version, and each drawing is new. See "List of Albums". | |||
 Congo first version (1930-31) |
 Congo second version (1946) |
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 America first version (1931-32) |
 America second version (1946) |
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| One of the most thoroughly re-worked albums is The Black Island. The second version has been coloured, and the lettering has been changed, but the pictures themselves are essentially identical. In the third version, on the contrary, the Hergé studio has redrawn all pictures, with finer details. The attitudes of the characters are now wonderfully mastered. | |||
 First version (1938) |
 Second version (1943) |
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 Third version (1966) | |||
 Second version (1943) |
 Third version (1966) |
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 First version: the taxi is probably an Austin, and the big car a Humber Pullman of 1937.
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 Second version: the taxi is a Ford Zephyr, and the big car a Jaguar Mark X.
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 1937 Humber Pullmann |
 Jaguar Mk X 1961-68 |
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 1935 Vauxhall |
 Triumph Herald 1959-70 |
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| The railway has also been updated: | |||
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| ...and so have the aeroplanes, of which we have an example here: | |||
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| The Johnnie Walker whisky is now Loch Lomond: | |||
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| The Eastbury fire brigade got new equipment: | |||
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| The backgrounds are more detailed: | |||
 Page 16, 1943 |
 Page 16, 1966 |
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 Page 43, 1943 |
 Page 43, 1966 |
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| Propeller vs. jet aeroplane in the final image: | |||
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| Another interesting case: Land of Black Gold. | |||
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| The first 20 pages of the album have been totally re-designed. In the second part, only the texts in Arabic have been changed. Hergé visibly decided to escape from the political imbrogio between the British, the Arabs and the Jews in Palestina just before the creation of Israel. Click on the picture to see other frames of page 14. | |||
In the first version (1950 in French), Tintin's ship arrives at Haifa, and the British police gets on board. Britain was occupying Palestina until May 1948. |
The 1971 (French) version has been re-written completely, to be more acceptable politically. The ship now arrives in a fantasy Arab country at the port of Khemkhah. |
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1971 |
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| Pages 15 to 20 have also been completely changed. The scenario is modified. Click on the three frames to see page 16 in its two versions. | |||
 The text in the first version is not real Arabic. It just looks like it for someone who does not know. |
 The second version is good Arabic and means: "May Allah damn you, son of a dog and your father the Bedouin !" |
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Last example: Tintin in America. The way Blacks were treated initially has been revised. |
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 Page 1, 1947 |
 Page 1, 1973 |
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Only the black man on the right has been slightly modified, with thinner lips.
The first version of the following two pictures was originally published in the "Petit Vingtième" in 1931. |
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 Page 29, 1973 |
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 Page 47, 1973 |
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In Crab with the Golden Claws, many changes have occurred to make the album more "politically correct":
For instance, some scenes where Captain Haddock is drinking whisky from the bottle have been "softened". The scene is unchanged globally, though. |
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 Page 19, 1947 |
 Second edition |
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| Similarly, the Black men here have been replaced by a Chinese and a Turk to please the American censorship. At the time it was not accepted in the USA to have Blacks and Whites sharing anything, even comic strips.... | |||
 Page 18, 1947 |
 Second edition |
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 Page 53, 1947 |
 Second edition |
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| François de Dardel
Updated 27th December 2007 |
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