'In the beginning, Tintin was a newspaper serial. The albums only came later and were never planned at all,' Hergé used to say. It is this original version of The Adventures of Tintin, along with Quick & Flupke and Jo, Zette & Jocko, that the Hergé collection, the complete serial, brings back to life. For the very first time you can discover the full run of Hergé's comics exactly as they appeared in Le Petit Vingtième, Cœurs Vaillants, Le Soir and the Tintin magazine, together with all the related artwork (covers, title banners, illustrations and more). At the end of the book, three richly illustrated afterwords packed with previously unpublished documents deepen the picture: Benoît Peeters looks back on Hergé's life and work, Jean-Marie Embs digs into the sources and historical context of each adventure, and Philippe Mellot charts Hergé's activities and publications day by day. This volume is co-published by Moulinsart and Casterman.
Number of pages: 496
Format: 30 x 24 x 5 cm
