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Tintin nostalgia thread
« on: March 18, 2021, 12:53:09 PM »
The discussion in this thread brought back a torrent of memories about Tintin, and rather than take that thread on a tangent, I decided to instead start a new thread dedicated to all things blistering barnacles.

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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2021, 12:54:16 PM »
Did anyone ever read other books by Herge? He has a small series about two kids of a professor and their pet monkey. Anyone familiar?

ETA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Jo,_Zette_and_Jocko

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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2021, 12:58:15 PM »
Another thing I just found on Wikipedia, which makes me wonder (NOT - we don't care about Jewish sensitivities) why Tintin was not canceled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Adventures_of_Tintin_characters#Bohlwinkel
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Mr. Bohlwinkel is a financier from the fictitious South American country São Rico, who appears in The Shooting Star. As the owner of a major banking concern and a petroleum firm called Golden Oil, he uses his wealth and resources to attempt to beat Tintin and his friends in the race to find a recently fallen meteorite. Apart from financing the exploratory vessel Peary, he unsuccessfully attempts to sabotage the competing expedition's ship Aurora, helmed by Captain Haddock. This includes depositing lit dynamite onto its deck (which Snowy puts out), instructing another ship under his control to ram the Aurora during a storm, refusing to allow the Aurora to refuel at a Golden Oil depot (only to have Haddock's old friend Captain Chester fuel the Aurora by siphoning oil being pumped into his tanks), and sending a fake S.O.S. to throw the Aurora off course (Tintin contacting multiple shipping agencies to determine that the ship and company that sent the distress call do not exist). The Shooting Star ends with a dismayed Bohlwinkel listening to a radio announcement that reveals that the police are onto him.

Bohlwinkel has physical traits reflecting a stereotypical Jew in Nazi propaganda. In the original edition of The Shooting Star published during World War II, he was named Blumenstein, an American Jew from a bank in New York. For the later edition of the book, Hergé altered the financier's antecedents by relocating him to the fictitious South American country São Rico and changing his name to a Brabantian dialect word for "sweet shop": bollewinkel, also modifying the spelling of the new name. After the edition was published, Hergé subsequently learnt that Bohlwinkel is a Jewish surname.

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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2021, 01:00:20 PM »
I don't know the legality of it, but many Tintin books can be downloaded in PDF from the internet for free.

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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2021, 01:00:54 PM »
Yes, so I'm having a conversation with myself. It's the the first time a superfan has done such a thing.

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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2021, 01:08:03 PM »
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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2021, 01:09:59 PM »
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1405294574/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Better off with the paperback or Hardcover?
The set of 7 (3 in each volume) is probably cheaper and more durable.

But they are all great!

I bought them all during quarantine, when Amazon had buy-2-get-1 sale, so I paid for 4 and got 6. (I had one from before)

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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2021, 01:57:55 PM »
Did anyone ever read other books by Herge? He has a small series about two kids of a professor and their pet monkey. Anyone familiar?

ETA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Jo,_Zette_and_Jocko
Yes, we had Mr. Pump’s Legacy, though I don't remember much about it. Guess it wasn't quite as compelling as Tintin.
The set of 7 (3 in each volume) is probably cheaper and more durable.

But they are all great!

I bought them all during quarantine, when Amazon had buy-2-get-1 sale, so I paid for 4 and got 6. (I had one from before)
+1 on the more durable part. The originals - both of Tintin and Asterix - I read growing up are mostly in terrible shape. At some point my father picked up some replacements, including at least some of the hardcover Asterix volumes (with multiple comics per volume). I can say my kids much prefer reading from the full size.

ETA: Apparently they make the full-size individual comics in hardcover, but I don't think there's a box set of that. The hardcover box set is with multiple comics per volume, and it's smaller than the originals
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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2021, 02:37:02 PM »
Yes, we had Mr. Pump’s Legacy, though I don't remember much about it. Guess it wasn't quite as compelling as Tintin.+1 on the more durable part. The originals - both of Tintin and Asterix - I read growing up are mostly in terrible shape. At some point my father picked up some replacements, including at least some of the hardcover Asterix volumes (with multiple comics per volume). I can say my kids much prefer reading from the full size.

ETA: Apparently they make the full-size individual comics in hardcover, but I don't think there's a box set of that. The hardcover box set is with multiple comics per volume, and it's smaller than the originals

The smaller size is probably more durable for younger kids.
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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2021, 02:42:56 PM »
TO me Tintin isn't nostalgic since I was only introduced to him after I had kids.
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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2021, 02:44:06 PM »
The smaller size is probably more durable for younger kids.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. The 8 volume set will last much better, both because it's hardcover and because it's smaller. But it doesn't provide the same reading experience.

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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2021, 02:48:47 PM »
We have them.
We = the library?

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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #13 on: March 18, 2021, 02:50:17 PM »
We = the library?

No, but thanks for reminding me to mention that the Tintin series is
available from Lakewood's (or rather Ocean County's) public library.
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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #14 on: March 18, 2021, 02:51:15 PM »
I just found out that this exists (although given the nature of the Internet, I'd have guessed
that it did) - https://tintin.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Captain_Haddock%27s_Curses
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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2021, 02:55:31 PM »
Was definitely an (important) part of my childhood. Loved getting my hands on them.
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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2021, 03:00:37 PM »
You need to get TinTin in the Congo
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Re: Tintin nostalgia thread
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