Cigars of the Pharoah (The Adventures of Tintin) - Softcover

Hergé

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316358363 ISBN 13: 9780316358361

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1975

Synopsis

The classic graphic novel. Tintin tries to take a vacation, but while on his cruise ship a mystery unfolds! He meets Dr. Sarcophagus who leads him to the undiscovered tomb of the Pharaoh Kih-Oskh.

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Review:

Cigars of the Pharaoh is one of Tintin's earliest adventures. He and Snowy are on a cruise to Egypt when they happen to meet Professor Sophocles Sarcophagus (the first of Tintin's absent-minded professors) and join his expedition. But they become embroiled in a complicated scheme involving a fakir, cigars marked with an unusual brand, and Rajijah, the poison of madness. Most significantly, Tintin meets the detectives Thompson and Thomson as well as the movie mogul Rastapopolous. While Cigars of the Pharaoh is a self-contained story, some of the mysteries are resolved in The Blue Lotus. Herge wrote Cigars in 1932 then revised it in 1955, which is why the art has the more polished look of later stories as well as the anachronistic glimpse of a copy of Destination: Moon. --David Horiuchi

From the Back Cover:

The Adventures of TinTin - Comic book format

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0316358363
• ISBN 13: 9780316358361
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62