Captain Haddock the Anglo-Dutch Wars. The grandfather of Richard Haddock, also a sea captain, commanded the ship of the line HMS Unicorn during the reign of Charles I. Bianca Castafiore has a difficult time remembering Haddock's name. In "The Castafiore Emerald." she confuses his name with malapropisms such as "Paddock", "Harrock", "Padlock", "Hopscotch", "Drydock", "Stopcock", "Maggot", "Bartók", "Hammock", and "Hemlock". The fictional Haddock remained without a first name until the last completed story, "Tintin and the Picaros" (1976), when the name "Archibald" was suggested. The name appears in Hergé's notes in 1938. According to Philippe Goddin, author of "Hergé - Chronologie d'une
The Calculus Affair The Calculus Affair The Calculus Affair () is the eighteenth volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly in Belgium's "Tintin" magazine from December 1954 to February 1956 before being published in a single volume by Casterman in 1956. The story follows the attempts of the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and his friend Captain Haddock to rescue their friend Professor Calculus, who has developed a machine capable of destroying objects with sound waves, from kidnapping attempts by the competing European countries of Borduria and Syldavia. Like the previous