The Black Island

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The Black Island is one of the early Tintin comic albums by Hergé, featuring the young reporter uncovering a counterfeit money operation on a mysterious Scottish island.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tintin comic album
comic book
artStyle ligne claire
chronologicalOrderInSeries seventh Tintin adventure
countryOfOrigin Belgium NERFINISHED
creator Hergé NERFINISHED
featuresAntagonist Dr. Müller NERFINISHED
featuresCharacter Snowy NERFINISHED
Thomson and Thompson NERFINISHED
firstPublicationMedium Le Petit Vingtième NERFINISHED
firstPublicationYear 1937
followedBy King Ottokar’s Sceptre NERFINISHED
follows The Broken Ear NERFINISHED
genre adventure comic
detective fiction
hasAnimalCharacter gorilla Ranko NERFINISHED
hasColorEdition 1943 redrawn version
1966 updated version
hasFormat album
serialized comic
hasReprint black-and-white album edition
color album edition
hasTheme crime investigation
forgery
pursuit and escape
hasTransportationElement airplane
boat
car
train
languageOfFirstSerialization French
mainCharacter Tintin NERFINISHED
notableFor detailed depiction of British settings
multiple major redrawn revisions by Hergé
notableLocation Black Island NERFINISHED
Eastdown NERFINISHED
Kiltoch NERFINISHED
originalLanguage French
originalTitle L’Île Noire NERFINISHED
partOf Tintin canon
plotElement counterfeit money operation
mysterious Scottish island
publisher Casterman NERFINISHED
revisedFor British market
series The Adventures of Tintin NERFINISHED
settingLocation England NERFINISHED
Scotland NERFINISHED
targetAudience children and young adults

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The Adventures of Tintin hasAlbum The Black Island