Captain Haddock since creating Tintin." Sales of the volume in which Haddock was introduced indicated the character was well received. After a fairly serious role in "The Shooting Star", where he has risen to become the President of the Society of Sober Sailors (replete with a cabin full of rum), Haddock takes a more central role in the next adventure, split over two books, "The Secret of the Unicorn" and "Red Rackham's Treasure"— indeed, his family history drives the plot. Upon locating the treasure, the newly wealthy Haddock retires. Hergé built the next adventure around Haddock, furnishing the character with an ancestral
Explorers on the Moon Explorers on the Moon Explorers on the Moon () is the seventeenth volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in Belgium's "Tintin" magazine from October 1952 to December 1953 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1954. Completing a story arc begun in the preceding volume, "Destination Moon" (1953), the narrative tells of the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and friends Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and Thomson and Thompson who are aboard humanity's first manned rocket mission to the Moon. Developed in part through the