Incus Berengario da Carpi in his "Commentaria super anatomia Mundini" (1521). Andreas Vesalius, in his "De humani corporis fabrica", was the first to compare the second element of the ossicles to an anvil, thereby giving it the name "incus". The final part of the long limb was once described as a "fourth ossicle" by Pieter Paaw in 1615. Incus The incus or anvil is a bone in the middle ear. The anvil-shaped small bone is one of three ossicles in the middle ear. The "incus" receives vibrations from the malleus, to which it is connected laterally, and transmits these to the
The Broken Ear and discovers the Arumbaya tribe deep in the forest. "The Broken Ear" was a commercial success and was published in book form shortly after its conclusion. Hergé continued "The Adventures of Tintin" with "The Black Island", while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. In 1943, "The Broken Ear" was coloured and reformatted for republication by Casterman. "The Broken Ear" introduces the recurring character General Alcazar, and was the first to include fictional countries. The story was adapted for both the 1956 Belvision animation, "Hergé's Adventures of Tintin", and for the 1991 Ellipse/Nelvana animated series