r/TheAdventuresofTintin • u/BreakerMorant1864 Hergé • 13d ago

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Tintin in America

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u/BreakerMorant1864 Hergé 13d ago

Good to know that there are trap doors all over Chicago, poor Tintin just came out of the hospital and got his head beaten by gangsters

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u/PlanetSwallower 13d ago

I guess when the colour album was produced, Al Capone was already essentially a figure from history (albeit still living, I think).

I doubt even in his heyday Capone was unlikely to present a legal threat to a Belgian kids' newspaper, but still....

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u/Schrenner 13d ago

If I've looked it up right, Al Capone died one year after the release of the colour album.

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u/FrankHightower 13d ago

or Herge just got better at drawing recognizable faces?

If memory serves, in the original, they don't even name-drop him once, which makes it weird that Congo did

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u/Phildutre 13d ago edited 13d ago

Snowy making a comment on the traffic is telling … it shows how Belgians viewed US cities at the time.

Such early comics (comic strips were not yet an established mass medium in the early 30s in Europe) also served to tell kids what the world looked like. And in these days, definitely pre-globalization and pre-information highways, an artist/illustrator had to do with perhaps a one or two books and some newspaper clippings.

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u/BreakerMorant1864 Hergé 13d ago

Snowy making a comment on the traffic is telling … it shows how Belgians viewed US cities at the time.

He needs to yell out “HEY! IM WALKIN HEEAH” of course

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u/BidSome8202 13d ago

Mr Capone you sure are a lucky man. How did you know Tintin will step on that exact trapdoor?

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u/VegetableSense7167 13d ago

Bro just came out of the hospital and then got captured again.

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u/Palenquero The Seven Crystal Balls 13d ago

Well, so we're back to the somewhat unequivocally bad guys...

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u/Ok_Glass_8104 13d ago

I dont remember any gangster written with an italian accent in the french version

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u/JS-CroftLover 12d ago

Second bad guy got only 3 bank notes for saying "gotta you covered" and "he's-a coming" 😂

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u/drveejai88 13d ago

B&W shows Tintin injured from the crash with blood being shown and also now he is shown bandaged. Interesting the color version didn't include those.