Destination Moon (comics) Destination Moon (comics) Destination Moon () is the sixteenth volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was initially serialised weekly in Belgium's "Tintin" magazine from March to September 1950 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1953. The plot tells of young reporter Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock who receive an invitation from Professor Calculus to come to Syldavia, where Calculus is working on a top-secret project in a secure government facility to plan a manned mission to the Moon. Developed in part through the suggestions of Hergé's
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