In his debut adventure, originally published in 1929, Tintin is pursued by Bolshevik agents trying to prevent him from exposing the new Soviet regi...
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Jan 26, 2012
Emma
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I actually did enjoy this more than I thought I would. I'd heard so many people complaining about the propaganda and racism against the Russians, and yet even though it is evidently there, you can look past it and enjoy the story for what it is. I'm not saying that this reaches the same level of enjoyment as pretty much all of the later Tintin comics (with the exception of the Congo) but it is an entertaining read in of itself. It's really interesting to see the progression from this comic to al
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Jan 19, 2012
Mark
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This first book in the Tintin collection was written about a couple of decades before the other ones. Therefore it is a LOT different from the other books to the point where you don't really recognise it as Tintin as all. Therefore this book is really only for completing your collection.[return][return]The thing that really nagged me about this book was that Tintin was portrayed as a bit of an a**hole but the Russians were portrayed as much worse. Tintin was always seen as getting the upper
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Nov 11, 2011
Kaung Myat
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I found out about Tintin when I was like twenty years old. Of course, I have always been familiar with that adorable image of him often in a simple blue sweater, a white shirt and redpants with that strange little hairdo and the awesome sidekick, the little white dog. It's just that I didn't exactly know what his name was or what the cartoon was all about as I had never read 'The Adventures of Tintin' in English, let alone French. Strange but then again, it's not very strange either since Tintin
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Nov 02, 2009
Justwinter
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Recently picked up this first Tintin adventure, one I'd never read as a child.
I'll just say that by the time readers have made it to Tintin's 4th adventure Cigars of the Pharaoh, he's in full swing as the reporter we know and love--strongly drawn with terrific backgrounds, gripping stories and a decent personality. The first three books are interesting to look at and read if for no other reason than to see the developing style and talent of their creator, Herge.
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I'll just say that by the time readers have made it to Tintin's 4th adventure Cigars of the Pharaoh, he's in full swing as the reporter we know and love--strongly drawn with terrific backgrounds, gripping stories and a decent personality. The first three books are interesting to look at and read if for no other reason than to see the developing style and talent of their creator, Herge.
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May 25, 2009
htanzil
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Komik ini merupakan kisah pertama petualangan Tintin selaku wartawan "Le Petit Vingtieme" yang dibuat oleh Herge. Dari petualangan pertamanya di Rusia inilah kelak komik seri Petualangan Tintin terus dibuat hingga mencapai 24 kisah yang mengajak pembacanya berkelana ke berbagai belahan dunia sambil menyelidiki berbagai kasus menarik bersama anjing setianya Milo(Snowy) dan beberapa sahabatnya seperti Kapten Haddock, Thomson & Thompson, Prof Calculus, dll.
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Feb 04, 2012
David
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I feel a little ashamed putting this book up on the list namely because it is the first time that I have read it, and I also scanned it into Goodreads as a reading-now book, which then goes onto my reading total for the year. I am not entirely sure whether one can consider graphic novels to be a book that one read, particularly since it generally does not talk all that long to read them. However, with any further Tintin books that I read, while they will appear on the sight, I will try not to l
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Jan 19, 2012
Martyn
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This was so horrible that I'm worried that my review will sound like the typical 'looking at the past through a modern lens' type of thing, which I can’t stand.
I hope my reaction is not based in the clumsy political propaganda that the book exhibits, that is obviously one of the reasons for the book being written in the first place (it was commissioned for the purpose of distorting the negativity of life in Soviet Russia). Nor, I hope, is it based in the poor humor – I get that languag More...
I hope my reaction is not based in the clumsy political propaganda that the book exhibits, that is obviously one of the reasons for the book being written in the first place (it was commissioned for the purpose of distorting the negativity of life in Soviet Russia). Nor, I hope, is it based in the poor humor – I get that languag More...
May 02, 2011
Hayes
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Let's see if my French is up to this...
There were just a few words that I had to look up, so I'm quite proud of myself, actually. The story was simple enough, and highly improbable, but it's a comic strip, right? And the very first ones: "Originally serialised in the Belgian children's newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième between 10 January 1929 and 11 May 1930, it was subsequently published in book form in 1930."
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There were just a few words that I had to look up, so I'm quite proud of myself, actually. The story was simple enough, and highly improbable, but it's a comic strip, right? And the very first ones: "Originally serialised in the Belgian children's newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième between 10 January 1929 and 11 May 1930, it was subsequently published in book form in 1930."
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Jun 12, 2010
John
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This is the first of the Tintin books, first released in 1930, and the only one to never appear in colour. As such, it has a very different feel to the others in the series - Tintin is not drawn as distinctly, the plot is fragmented, and it's almost as silly as "Tintin Au Congo". However at the time Hergé was drawing for the readers of the Petit Vingtième - by 1934 Tintin was an international success and was consequently drawn for a different audience.
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Dec 26, 2011
Michael
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Herge' didn't realize that his Tintin character was going to become a big deal when his boss told him to create a work of anti-Soviet propaganda for children. Apparently he didn't put much effort or thought into it, and was pretty embarrassed by it once his character and career started to take off, refusing to render a color version and keeping the original black and white version from being reprinted for as long as he could. Well, he was right to be embarrassed; "Land of the Soviets"
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Jan 02, 2008
mirna
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here... snowy has so much dialogs & a big role too!! & tintin himself, is a superhero... an invincible, totally cartoon!! not only boom & bullet proof, but survive from any crash and can fight anything from men to polar bear with his own barehand...
multi talented tintin, from mechanic to woodcarving but not a good driver in land, water & air... but never run out of luck!!
multi talented tintin, from mechanic to woodcarving but not a good driver in land, water & air... but never run out of luck!!
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Aug 02, 2011
Dan
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The Tintin stories for anyone who has read them and understands their history can't be viewed as anything other than groundbreaking. The beginnings of these stories have been around as long as the Lord of the Rings, the illustration and environments in the Tintin books are accurate and extremely detailed. Anyone who has spent even a little time exploring Herge (Georges Remi) can see the painstaking research and adversity he worked through to compose the world around Tintin. His ideas were ahe
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Nov 30, 2011
Giannina
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Warning: This review may contain spoilers.
I had recently watched the film adaptation of Tintin. It made me interested in the comics. I used to have one comic book of Tintin's, but I never really got to appreciate it, seeing as I was quite young when I got it.
This is apparently the first Tintin adventure that there is. It's in black and white and has a different art style. The plot involves the Soviet Union, as seen from the title itself. In here, Tintin reminded me of Pop More...
I had recently watched the film adaptation of Tintin. It made me interested in the comics. I used to have one comic book of Tintin's, but I never really got to appreciate it, seeing as I was quite young when I got it.
This is apparently the first Tintin adventure that there is. It's in black and white and has a different art style. The plot involves the Soviet Union, as seen from the title itself. In here, Tintin reminded me of Pop More...
Jul 29, 2011
Mathieu
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Premier album de Tintin. c'est qu'il est engagé le journaliste du petit vingtième... N'écoutant que son courage, il va aller dénoncer à la source les mensonges des odieux soviets russes...
C'est primaire, mais qu'est-ce que c'est bon ! On a droit à tous les clichés anti-rouges des années vingt. Certes on y dénonce les crimes léniniens (ça existe pas ce mot, si ?) et les balbutiements du stalinisme pour ce qu'on en savait à la fin des années vingt, mais d'une manière tellement outrée qu'on finit More...
C'est primaire, mais qu'est-ce que c'est bon ! On a droit à tous les clichés anti-rouges des années vingt. Certes on y dénonce les crimes léniniens (ça existe pas ce mot, si ?) et les balbutiements du stalinisme pour ce qu'on en savait à la fin des années vingt, mais d'une manière tellement outrée qu'on finit More...
Nov 16, 2011
Jeff
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Tintin was my first real introduction to comics as a kid. I discovered some of his later adventures in my 4th grade teacher's library and have always looked back on them fondly. With the movie coming out soon, I told my wife about my love of Tintin stories and so ah bought me the first four as a birthday gift.
This book is the first story about the intrepid reporter and his dog. It lacks in detail and many of the conventions of the later stories. It is also more propaganda than later ta More...
This book is the first story about the intrepid reporter and his dog. It lacks in detail and many of the conventions of the later stories. It is also more propaganda than later ta More...
Nov 15, 2011
Lady
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Having grown up loving Tintin's adventures, I was rather surprised to come across one that I missed reading when I was younger.
This is definitely not nearly as strong as what comes after it... this is much more slapstick, Tintin's intelligence is not particularly high, and Snowy talks as much as Tintin does. This was all qutie strange for me, as was the style used for the illustrations... very simplistic with bold black lines on a white background. However, Tintin is still the belov More...
This is definitely not nearly as strong as what comes after it... this is much more slapstick, Tintin's intelligence is not particularly high, and Snowy talks as much as Tintin does. This was all qutie strange for me, as was the style used for the illustrations... very simplistic with bold black lines on a white background. However, Tintin is still the belov More...
Oct 10, 2010
Merry
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I've just started to go back and re-read the Tintin books in order. Read them all as a kid, and for years I had pictures on my walls. LOVE Herge's artwork.
This is a really strange comic: Herge was writing propaganda, and it's hilariously over the top! Factories are just a facade and some dudes banging metal on metal, and elections are rigged by villains with mustaches.
It's weird to think that the series came from this, and I reckon this is the worst story just because the More...
This is a really strange comic: Herge was writing propaganda, and it's hilariously over the top! Factories are just a facade and some dudes banging metal on metal, and elections are rigged by villains with mustaches.
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Oct 27, 2010
Sammy
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My review, as posted in Tintin Books
The perils of this album are well-documented: written before Herge awoke to a wider worldview, and when he was still a pencil for hire, this is a propaganda piece and nothing more. Tintin as a reporter is an Everyman thrust into a land of corrupt politicians, and evil overlords.
To me, there's something messily beautiful about Herge's boyish scrawl. It's not polished, true, but that pudgy little potato boy and his scruffy dog make for deligh More...
The perils of this album are well-documented: written before Herge awoke to a wider worldview, and when he was still a pencil for hire, this is a propaganda piece and nothing more. Tintin as a reporter is an Everyman thrust into a land of corrupt politicians, and evil overlords.
To me, there's something messily beautiful about Herge's boyish scrawl. It's not polished, true, but that pudgy little potato boy and his scruffy dog make for deligh More...
Dec 21, 2011
Debbie (Readerbuzz)
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Tintin, a reporter for Le Petit Vingtieme, along with his companion dog, Snowy, is off to the Soviet Union for a story. Everyone in the Soviet Union seems to want to kill Tintin and he, like many cartoon characters, dies a hundred times, but, also like many cartoon characters, is always able to shake off death and live to fight another day.
There’s action on every page of this comic book with Tintin battling Russian bad guys and trying to get out of prison and getting shot and being d More...
There’s action on every page of this comic book with Tintin battling Russian bad guys and trying to get out of prison and getting shot and being d More...
Nov 01, 2011
Chloe
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As I am used to the more recent Tintin books with color and more detail, this was a step into the unknown for me. A lower detailed and no-colored Tintin book provided little adventure and was sometimes hard to understand. I was rather confused for the reason why the, "Ogus's", (I think thats what they were called...) were trying to get rid of him, and even more when they suddenly asked him to join them. It was hard to tell when they were thinking something or saying it out loud. Indeed
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Oct 29, 2011
Jacob
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why I decided to read this book
I decided to read this book because it is the first in a classic series that I really like.
this book completes the A graphic novel Section of the bingo board
what I liked about this book and why
I like this book because it shows the development of the illustrator throughout the course of the book.
what I didn't like about this book and why
I didn't like the fact that there were only two main characters in the sto More...
I decided to read this book because it is the first in a classic series that I really like.
this book completes the A graphic novel Section of the bingo board
what I liked about this book and why
I like this book because it shows the development of the illustrator throughout the course of the book.
what I didn't like about this book and why
I didn't like the fact that there were only two main characters in the sto More...
Jan 09, 2011
Mike
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Wow, that was some mighty strong propaganda. But it was written in the 20s so that's ok with me. The plot was a little repetitive with all the Munchausen-like escapades: Bombs that blow up a train, but leave TinTin unscathed, escaping from armed thugs several times, constantly running from the Bolsheviks while finding evidence of all the atrocities of communism.
This was the first TinTin comic, and I understand that it's not till about the 3rd or 4th that he really hits his stride, so I More...
This was the first TinTin comic, and I understand that it's not till about the 3rd or 4th that he really hits his stride, so I More...
Jan 16, 2011
Adam
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This is the first Tintin album, and it's unique in that it was never redrawn in the more detailed ligne claire style that Herge evolved toward, and as a result, it's not in color, either. The story's pretty simple, too, but you can definitely see the beginnings of the greatness that Tintin eventually evolved into. It's fun, but the interest here is definitely more for its historical value (both with regard to the Tintin series and as a look into conservative European attitudes toward the Soviet
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Apr 21, 2008
Sarah
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Jan 02, 2011
Mark
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This new facsimile reprint of the very first adventure of one of the world's most beloved cartoon characters shows Tintin's creator, the famed Belgian cartoonist Herge, just beginning to learn his craft. The story was originally created in 1929 for a children's supplement in the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle.
Readers meet Tintin, intrepid red-headed boy reporter, along with his dog, for the first time as they set off to Russia to investigate the evil doings of the Soviets. The More...
Readers meet Tintin, intrepid red-headed boy reporter, along with his dog, for the first time as they set off to Russia to investigate the evil doings of the Soviets. The More...
Sep 16, 2011
Angie
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Et voici le premier aventure de Tintin et Milou!
Un pays des soviets de fiction avec les problemes pendant Stalin.
Mais soignez-vous que Hergé etait dans un Belgique trés conservatoire et capitaliste, et sa source d'information eut plus limiteé que les autres qu'il avait obtenu pour ses suivants aventures.
C'est aussi un des livres ou on peut voir Tintin et Milou avant de son plus connu dessin, les prochaines livres ont des dessins trés moderne jusqu'a les premie More...
Un pays des soviets de fiction avec les problemes pendant Stalin.
Mais soignez-vous que Hergé etait dans un Belgique trés conservatoire et capitaliste, et sa source d'information eut plus limiteé que les autres qu'il avait obtenu pour ses suivants aventures.
C'est aussi un des livres ou on peut voir Tintin et Milou avant de son plus connu dessin, les prochaines livres ont des dessins trés moderne jusqu'a les premie More...
Dec 23, 2011
David
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I was excited for this one but was ultimately disappointed; Tin-Tin goes to Russia for his Belgian newspaper and is immediately arrested--again and again--by the precursor to the KGB for no apparent reason. Herge quite correctly identifies the Soviet Union in the 1930s as an evil dictatorship, but never gets beyond that one-dimensional assessment. Tin-Tin meets few ordinary Russians and spends most of his time trying to get away from people chasing him. Not one of his best!
Oct 16, 2011
James
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This year I've begun learning about comics, in particular classics and those with politically incorrect or colonialist perspectives... I was unsure about Tintin, I thought it would be dry and slow, but I found the snappy plot, including the clichés and dei ex machina, to suit my prevailing humor, keeping me laughing and excited. The depiction of Russia as a nation of mean-spirited, oppressive agents might seem narrow and ornery to some, but I thought it great.
Mar 30, 2011
Patrick
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Unlike the other Tintin books, this was written in daily (or possibly weekly?) installments and not as a "graphic novel" (for lack of a better term). And it reads that way - it's incredibly episodic and repetitive (how many times will Tintin dress up as the bad guys to fool them? A lot), but it's cute and there are glimpses of the kind of humor for which the series would later come to be known. Not a great book, but cute for what it is.
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Dec 31, 2009
Gina
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This very early Tintin is all black and white line drawings. The art is quite expressive and there is a lot of physical comedy. This is sort of the Three Stooges Tintin, I think. The story is even more ridiculous than in later Tintin adventures and while Tintin shows signs of the sanctimonious little guy he becomes later, he's actually a bit of a jerk. I think this is a must for any Tintin fan, if only for historical interest.
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