The Shooting Star

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The Shooting Star is a 1942 installment of Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin comic series, featuring Tintin’s race to claim a fallen meteorite amid international rivalry and apocalyptic omens.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tintin adventure
comic album
albumNumberInSeries 10
artStyle ligne claire
colorEditionYear 1942
countryOfOrigin Belgium NERFINISHED
creator Hergé NERFINISHED
featuresCharacter Professor Decimus Phostle NERFINISHED
Thomson and Thompson NERFINISHED
featuresOrganization European scientific expedition
rival American-backed expedition
featuresVessel Aurora NERFINISHED
firstPublicationMedium Le Soir NERFINISHED
firstPublisher Le Soir (newspaper) NERFINISHED
followedBy The Secret of the Unicorn NERFINISHED
format album
genre adventure comic
science fiction comic
hasAdaptation The Adventures of Tintin animated series episode
hasControversy anti-Semitic caricature in early version
wartime publication in Nazi-occupied Belgium
languageOfFirstSerialization French
laterEditions removed explicit anti-Semitic elements
mainCharacter Captain Haddock NERFINISHED
Snowy NERFINISHED
Tintin NERFINISHED
medium comic strip
narrativeDevice prophetic astronomical omen
notableElement approaching giant meteorite
expanding and unstable meteorite fragment
expedition ship Aurora
originalLanguage French
originalTitle L’Étoile mystérieuse NERFINISHED
plotFocus race to reach a fallen meteorite
precededBy The Crab with the Golden Claws NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1942
publisher Casterman NERFINISHED
scientificElement fictional metal phostlite
series The Adventures of Tintin NERFINISHED
setting Arctic Ocean NERFINISHED
Brussels NERFINISHED
targetAudience children and young adults
theme apocalyptic omens
international rivalry
timePeriodOfStory contemporary to early 1940s
tone apocalyptic
suspenseful

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The Adventures of Tintin hasAlbum The Shooting Star