Captain Haddock Captain Haddock as a permanent addition to the cast. Hergé introduced Captain Haddock in "The Crab with the Golden Claws" as the rum-loving captain of the "Karaboudjan", a merchant vessel used— without Haddock's knowledge— by his first mate Allan for smuggling drugs inside crab tins. Because of his alcoholism and temperamental nature, his character was weak and unstable, at times posing as great a hazard to Tintin as the villains of the piece. He was also short-tempered, given to emotional expletive-ridden outbursts, and capable of infuriating behaviour; at one point he even attacks Tintin when, while traversing the Moroccan desert,
The Red Sea Sharks The Red Sea Sharks The Red Sea Sharks () is the nineteenth 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 October 1956 to January 1958 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1958. The narrative follows the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and his friend Captain Haddock as they travel to the (fictional) Middle Eastern kingdom of Khemed with the intention of aiding the Emir Ben Kalish Ezab in regaining control after a coup d'état by his enemies, who are