The Secret of the Unicorn (Adventures of Tintin) - Hardcover

Herge; Lonsdale-Cooper, Leslie; Turner, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316359025 ISBN 13: 9780316359023

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1992

Synopsis

When Tintin gives Captain Haddock a model ship, the cartoon characters are led into a bizarre adventure involving pirates from the reign of Charles II.

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Review:

The Secret of the Unicorn was one of the first truly great Tintin adventures and Herge's personal favorite, combining a puzzling mystery with a ripping pirate yarn. When Tintin finds a magnificent model ship in the street market, his attempt to buy it for Captain Haddock leads him on a trail of pickpockets, burglars, and secret treasure, and Haddock enthralls him with a tale of his seafaring ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock (who was exclaiming "Thundering typhoons!" generations before the Captain ever did), and his fateful encounter with the fearsome pirate Red Rackham. The story is also notable for Herge's fantastic eye for ship detail as well as the first appearances of Nestor and Marlinspike Hall. The Secret of the Unicorn was Tintin's first official two-book adventure, continued in Red Rackham's Treasure. --David Horiuchi

About the Author:

Herge (Georges Remi) was born in Brussels in 1907. Over the course of 54 years he completed 23 albums of The Adventures of Tintin series, which is now considered to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, comics series of all time. With translations published in over 80 languages, more than 230 million copies sold worldwide and a Hollywood movie to its name, Tintin dominates the Comics and Graphic Novels chart even today. Sadly, Herge died in 1983, leaving his 24th album, Tintin and Alph-Art, unfinished, but his hero continues to be one of the most iconic characters in both adult and children's fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0316359025
• ISBN 13: 9780316359023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 62