Marlinspike Hall Marlinspike Hall Marlinspike Hall ( ) is Captain Haddock's country house and family estate in "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The original French name of the hall, "Moulinsart", is derived from Sart-Moulin, a village near Braine-l'Alleud in Walloon Brabant, Belgium. In an allusion to the Haddock family's maritime history, the hall's English name refers to the marlinspike, a tool used in seamanship to splice ropes. The Belgian corporation managing Hergé's work (principally "Tintin") is also called Moulinsart S.A. Marlinspike Hall first appears in "The Secret of the Unicorn" as the home of the story's
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