Tintin in the Land of the Soviets is sent with his dog Snowy on an assignment to the Soviet Union, departing from Brussels. En route to Moscow, an agent of the OGPU - the Soviet secret police - sabotages the train and declares the reporter to be a "dirty little bourgeois". The Berlin Police blame Tintin for the bombing but he escapes to the border of the Soviet Union. Following closely, the OGPU agent finds Tintin and brings him before the local Commissar's office, instructing the Commissar to make the reporter "disappear ... accidentally". Escaping again, Tintin finds "how the Soviets fool the poor idiots who still
The Adventures of Tintin in a special Tintin livery. Tintin has become a symbol of Belgium and so was used in a variety of visual responses to the 2016 Brussels bombings. Following are the twenty-four canonical "Tintin" comic albums, with their English titles. Publication dates are for the original French-language versions. The following are double albums with a continuing story arc: Hergé attempted and then abandoned "Le Thermozéro" (1958). Outside the "Tintin" series, a 48-page comic album supervised by (but not written by) Hergé, "Tintin and the Lake of Sharks", was released in 1972; it was based on the film . Books News articles