Hardback Tintin adventures were first published in English in 1958. Paperback Tintin adventures were first published in English in 1972. Three-in-one Tintin adventures were first published in English in 1990. The English-language back covers have the following dates: Island back cover - 1946-1974. This is what the first Methuen English-language Tintin comics published in 1958 had. Seventeen hardback books and fourteen paperback books originally had this cover. It was also used for the first variant of the Tintin three-in-one books, originally published 1990-92 and as late as 2003. It is also the back cover that Casterman uses for the colour version of Tintin in the Congo, which they have published since 2016 Back cover with 16 books - 1975-1978. This included sixteen books, not completely in chronological order, at the back. More books were added as text as they were published. Three hardback books and five paperback books originally had this back cover. Back cover with 20 books - 1979-1982. This included all 20 books available in English at the time, for the first time in chronological order. Tintin in America was published in paperback for the first time in this format. Back cover with 21 books - 1983-mid 90s. With the publication of The Blue Lotus in 1983, the back cover changed again. The books were in chronological order, but with the Blue Lotus on the top-right and a Making of Tintin book on the top-left. The Blue Lotus was published in hardback and paperback in this format. Second back cover with 21 books - late 90s - 2000. This included all the books laid out in chronological order, with text in the middle about other books. The standard edition of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets was originally published in hardback in this format. Tintin in the Congo, which was on the top-left in French books, was replaced with a picture of Tintin and Snowy. Back cover with 22 books - 2001-2003. Same as previous, but the picture of Tintin and Snowy was replaced with Tintin and the Land of the Soviets (yes, the first standard edition of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets didn't feature itself on the back cover). Back cover with 23 books - 2004, 2013-present. Originally featured in the standard edition of Tintin and Alph-art. Pictures of books are now smaller and take up two thirds of the back cover. Text underneath lists more books be Hergé. Tintin in the Congo replaced by a picture of Tintin and Snowy. This format was restored when Egmont stopped publishing Tintin in the Congo in 2013. Back cover with 24 books - 2005-2013. Same as previous cover except Tintin in the Congo is also featured. Picture of Tintin and Snowy removed as a result.

@ftloc

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent info, tha k you! Pinning for others reference as well.

I had a Proustian moment seeing the backs of those editions. I use to look at those back cover image as a kid and trying to identify as many scenes as possible. I have forgotten about that time in my life till this video. Thank you!

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

It is quite an enthralling thing isn't it - both the childhood experience of looking at those back covers/ imagining what lay in those books as well as revisiting the books and the memories as an adult? I know exactly how you feel and am glad I could share a bit of that with you! 😁

@virus2003

3 жыл бұрын

This was an awesome comment, thanks for sharing. I love those elusive moments in adulthood when I'm transported back to childhood.

@ravindushehan9403

3 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc exactly nostalgia is a powerful emotion. And it gets triggered when you least experience them. I'm gonna dig my old book shelf and find that book. Keep making good videos my friend

@ravindushehan9403

3 жыл бұрын

@@virus2003 As Monsieur Marcel Proust has said finding things that trigger our involuntary memory is such a pleasure

Highly enjoyable. Especially the sense of the archeology of your youthful self discovering all you could about a favorite comic, layered over with the archeology of Herges journey of creation.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you - so glad you enjoyed it. Kids these days have no idea how tough life was before you could just look everything up on Wikipedia! 😊

Speaking as someone who has spent stupid amounts of money on Tintin (including all the Feuilleton volumes published to date) you taught me a lot in this video. Thanks!

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad to hear that and to know you enjoyed it! What are the Feuilleton volumes, I don't know anything about them?

@sordel5866

3 жыл бұрын

For the Love of Comics Hergé: Le Feuilleton Integral (five volumes so far) published only in French with the complete Hergé comic strips in the form that they first appeared in journals (and all the covers where relevant). I think it’s going to be eleven volumes when/if it is completed and includes everything, not just Tintin.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

@@sordel5866 sounds lovely, I'm going to look those up! 😁

@rb2144

2 жыл бұрын

@Sordel There are also the seven volumes of ‘Chronologie d’une ouvre’ on Tintin by Phillipe Goddin.

@sordel5866

2 жыл бұрын

@@rb2144 I have the first volume but that series went quickly out of print and it's difficult (& expensive!) to put together a set now. The three-volume Art of Hergé, also by Goddin, is a good alternative for an English language reader but I think that they are also either out of print or close to it.

Good to have you back brother, hope you feeling better :)

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much - I'm much better and hope you are keeping well too!

Cool editions, good to see you back in business.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, good to _be_ back! 😀

@stopmotionman1866

3 жыл бұрын

After a long time you've done another Tintin vid

Great to see a new Tintin video on this channel.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

So glad you liked it!

I always love it when these tin tin videos come out every once and awhile, this was a very cool video, and I didn’t know you could get the blue lotus and cigars of the pharaoh in one volume, so that was pretty epic. Also hope your feeling better.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much - feeling much better now! And I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - I too learned about this edition quite recently, although I knew of the Inca and Unicorn ones before. Mission to the Moon (the old 'making of...' edition, not the recent anniversary bind-up) is another that I only found out about recently!

Wow, this is the first time I am hearing of this edition. Thanks for introducing this in the video...!

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it!

Another nice Tintin video!!! The extras looks amazing 😊!!!

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you - and yes, they're great!

Excellent Video... i have 2 of this series - making of tintin in the world of inca and the unicorn/red rackham treasure... and they are absolutely gorgeous

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's great! I'd love to one day get my hands on those too! 😍

Hope you are doing well now, I was always curious about the making of Tintin mainly because I couldn’t find anything about it, so thanks for making this video.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! I hope that I can get to make videos on one or more of the others too (fingers crossed!)

Glad to see you back! Hope you and your family are all fine and dandy!

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Well on the way to 100%, thankfully!

Great video! I've heard about those editions, but never knew how interesting they are.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

The same for me - I was surprised at how wonderful they are!

I want this edition . Btw , "The Blue Lotus" was the first Tintin comic I ever read, so it's always very special to me.

@ftloc

Жыл бұрын

It is the all-time favourite Tintin for many, many people I know! In case you haven't caught this and are interested, here's my look at the original vs the colour edition here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJid1qimgKrHirQ.html Cheers!

Great to see you back. Hope you feel better, i have also suffered with it. I have recently got a hard back smaller Tintin compendium of the moon double and one other, very odd. I have also bought book 1 pf Pluto on your recommendation. Wow, book 2 already ordered. Didn't know manga could be like that.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much for your wishes and I hope you are doing well yourself! And isn't Pluto great? I am sure you will enjoy the rest of the story as well now that the first volume has worked for you. What was the other Tintin you got? I am not sure I know the two-in-one Moon edition in the smaller form, is it part of what is collected in one of the box sets (is there a third adventure with it?)

@James-sf7yp

3 жыл бұрын

Hi. Yes I went and looked at our and worked it out. It's number 6 of the compact editions. www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Tintin-Editions-Destination-Explorers/dp/1405228997

Glad you are back! I love tintin and I enjoy learning new facts from your vids!

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to be back and so glad you liked the video!

@WillRaj

3 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc Also, just a suggestion, but I'd love to see a video of you ranking all the tintin books. I know you did a top 6 vid, but I would be interested to see how you would rank the others.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

@@WillRaj Ah yes, that's a suggestion I've been mulling for a while - it sounds like a good idea and I'm going to start working on it! It'll take some effort because I really do enjoy them all in many ways, and am usually very averse to ranking things (even my Top 6, apart from my number 1 pick, were arranged chronologically). Still it is a popular enough and interesting enough a suggestion that I will make an exception for it! Coming soon? 😁

@WillRaj

3 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc Hey that's great! I know it is no easy task, so don't feel obligated to do it if you don't want to. I personally would really love to hear your opinions on all the books, and I think it would be a popular video. Glad you are considering doing it!

I could say the extras are as fascinating as the stories itself. For a person who rarely left Belgium, Hergé developed a quite complex and lifelike background for his main creation.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I find it utterly fascinating how much texture he was able to imbue his stories with that way!

Very interesting! I'm just starting my journey with Tintin and have the Blue Lotus from the library right now. So glad to have you back!

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much - it feels good to be back. Are you reading them all in chronological order, starting with the _Land of the Soviets_? What do you think thus far?

@peterlinfield

3 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc I've just been picking up the few books that my library has available, so definitely not reading in order. I read The Secret of the Unicorn first and now The Blue Lotus. I'm really enjoying them! The stories have twists and turns but have internal logical consistency. They're charming and a lot of fun. A few racial issues with this one - especially how the Japanese villain is portrayed - but Tintin himself stands up for people that are different from himself and challenges bigots which is really nice to see.

Great to see you back putting out videos. Hope you and the wife are both healthy. Great video, have been reading Tintin since l can remember. Did you get a chance to read the first volume of the blue coats and if you did what did you think?

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much; it feels good to be back! I did read the first book and I loved it! It took a slightly odd premise and did a great job with both the situational and the character humour, and the drawing (particularly of the larger panels and crowds) was excellent! I'm looking to see if I can find more now!

@jeritron74

3 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc That's great to hear that you liked it. I think l have the first 14 volumes now, took a chance because the art and the writing seemed similar to comics like Lucky Luke, Tintin etc. Yes l also love the big panels. Let me know if you struggle to find any volumes, easy to get in Australia. I order from book depository in the UK for a lot of the cinebook comics.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeritron74 Thank you so very much for that kind offer - don't be surprised if I take you up on it, given how hard it is to find some of these books here!

Strange that they skipped Blue Lotus as it is, in my opinion, one of the best adventures. It is also such an important one in the evolution of Herge's style.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is an incredibly important work in the oeuvre, so I can only assume that it was for reasons having to do with depictions and representations. Which could be seen as slightly ironic given Chang's talk about the way the world sees and depicts the Chinese!

Long time but good to see you.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Feels good to be back! 😁

From 1 tintin fan to another. I have grown up with tintin and thought I knew all there is to know about tintin. That's until I came across your channel. Brilliant work and thoroughly enjoy the tintin stories.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

So glad you liked it, and thank you!

@vsacvjacv

3 жыл бұрын

Hey! Maybe you can answer this question on Tintin which has always perplexed me :) In cigars of the pharaoh (in the version i have), there is a part where tintin gets kidnapped and then released when the pasha realizes it's tintin and he has read tintin's exploits for long. And there is a guy in the background holding the cover of destination moon. Now obviously in tintin timeline that will come later, tintin hadn't even met haddock or calculus by then. So then who, how, why, when did someone add this bit to the story. I assume the original version of the story didn't have this bit. This bit has me confused till date :)

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

@@vsacvjacv Cigars of the Pharaoh was being reprinted in English for the first time because Tintin had become popular in English. The Moon stories were the most recent of those books so this changed the cover to that adventure for the English audiences encountering this later. Of course it makes no sense timewise, but they've just never changed it back. You can see the original in this other video of mine, alongside a couple of other weird things in Pharaoh: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ln2E2LiTo6jgZ7A.html

@vsacvjacv

3 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc wow. Thanks. I can sleep in peace now :). Will definitely checkout the video!

I am pretty much having every version of Tintin, in every format

The Cigars/Lotus "Making Of" volume is the rarest of the four due to having the least number of copies printed. If they carried on with the series, what others could they have done? * Tintin in the Congo/Tintin in America (if it wasn't for the former's problematic English publication, this could have been a fifth volume) * European Espionage (King Ottokar's Sceptre/The Calculus Affair) * Desert Dangers (Land of Black Gold/The Red Sea Sharks) * Jungle Adventures (The Broken Ear/Tintin and the Picaros) * The Birth and Destiny of Tintin (Tintin in the Land of the Soviets/Tintin and Alph-Art) * In the World of Science Fiction (The Shooting Star/Flight 714) That leaves The Black Island, The Crab with the Golden Claws, Tintin in Tibet and The Castafiore Emerald but what two-way connections could you do with them? Legendary Monsters (Island/Tibet)?

@ftloc

4 ай бұрын

What a fascinating and wonderful exercise! I know these are all the two part stories, but I like your thematic arrangement a lot! I also like how there are different pairings possible, like how the Red Sea Sharks can also be a high seas adventure with The Shooting Star. 😁

Love this video and review. Grew up with some of this big sizes Egmont Tintin books and I remember seeing those titles at the back cover and thinking I want to get them all,haha. Later on I got the full set in the smaller hardcover editions. Still haven't completed the larger original sized ones! Also I'm based in Copenhagen,Denmark as an expat now and Tintin is big here. The largest comic/toys/board game store is called Faraos Cigarer (Danish for Pharaohs Cigars) 😊

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

That's so cool! I've only heard about how popular Tintin is in Europe and hope to see it first hand someday. I am sure you can get all kinds of wonderful editions there, although perhaps not in English. I would in fact love to have even larger editions than the regular albums, like those Little Brown facsimiles of _Unicorn_ and _Rackham's Treasure_ I show in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYF9z6-yXa7dpJs.html Have you seen anything like those around? 😁

@evilutionvj

3 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc Oh that giant sized edition is cool, haven't noticed it but will keep a lookout. I bought a Danish version of Cigars of the Pharaoh just to have a copy in a different language 😊 Otherwise they carry a lot of the merch (have been buying the annual calendars)

Love your show 🥰

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😁

Ah that lovely nostalgia. I loved the old Methuen editions. As I said in another vid, the Blue Lotus was a brilliant bonus when it was released in the UK in the early 80s.

@ftloc

2 жыл бұрын

I once met someone who only read and knew of the two Unicorn books and thought that is all there was of Tintin. (Apparently he read them in a homebound, san-covers form). He spent years rereading them and fantasizing about the world and characters. Can you imagine how he felt discovering the series a couple of years later? 😁

@bryanbelshaw7725

2 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc Good grief what must've went through his head when he saw the rest. 🤯 I wonder which two books he was re-reading. Love stories like this.

@ftloc

2 жыл бұрын

Just The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's treasure, over and over 😁

Have you checked out the ‘Chronologie d’une oeuvre’ by Phillipe Goddin? There are seven fat volumes called ‘Tomes 1 to 7’. Encompasses almost everything that Herge did on Tintin. Its really a paper museum on everything Herge. But these are in French. Wish they had reproduced the entire set in English too. Instead, a much abridged 3 volume set was brought out in English titled ‘The Art of Herge’.

@ftloc

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, I've *heard* of them 😁! But as you say, they seem very hard to find, even the abridged English version...

You need to check out Tintin: The Art of Herge. I got it for my dad recently and the whole book is basically like the last section of this edition. A must read imo

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

I'd love to get my hands on that, but I haven't found it easily available...

@pratyayghosh1717

3 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc I got lucky and found it on sale on Amazon

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

@@pratyayghosh1717 you get the best deals! 😁

Thank you for this reveal/exam of a unique Tintin book. Yes, I too wish I ha a copy. In fact, I may try to get some of these books, many of which I've never owned , and the sooner the better as I am losing my sight. I' like to see thiese things (and many other things) before I can't. Woul you ever consider discussing the Jack Kirby's (original/early) versions of THE CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN?--These ---especially the Showcase adventures---were really epic pre-Marvel wonders/great and imaginative/inventive stories with (to me) Kirby's best art (some of it done in conjunction with Wally Wood). I feel Kirby abandoned some of his detail and high-quality drafting/designing technique soon after these comics. Yes, that is probably a shocking statement to a lot of people, but....I guess that's how i perceived them.SHOWCASE NO. 11 in particular, a tale that never stops! Thanks again! Very interesting and clearly presented report. ;-)

@ftloc

6 ай бұрын

I'd love to take a look, but I don't seem to have any reasonable way to get my hands on them!

@RSEFX

6 ай бұрын

@@ftloc Yes, the originals cost quite a fortune, and some of the reprints had DC comics alter the colors of the characters' uniforms, to their detriment. Some of these tales/issues are available inexpensively via those 1970's reprints, (and some of them even retained the original costume colors, so they are pretty cool way to circumvent the hight costs of obtaining the originals, which all appeared in the 1950's). I hope you can excuse my typos, if they are here, since I can't read the text very well in order to proofread it.

@ftloc

6 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry to hear about your vision. I hope you get to read some great books!

I didn't really read tin tin as a kid as I didn't know they existed until much later I knew him better from the animated series which I thought was awesome

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

I am the other way around - I grew up with the comics and didn't learn until much later that there was an animated show! Having seen some episodes now I think they are rather faithful adaptations, although comics do allow you to pace the panels as you wish, giving them a slightly different velocity. If you check out the comics I'd be interested in knowing what you think of them!

Glad to hear your voice again! Hope you are feeling well! Where did you get this copy from? I have been looking for it too. Thanks!

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine found it in a bookstore/stall so I asked to borrow it to make this video - I knew not a lot of people would have seen it (or even heard of it) so it would be of interest!

bravo, my friend.

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

First Tin Tin books I bought where being sold by my local library whose copies where in such a bad state of repair they had to be taken of the shelves and I got three at a cost of 5 British pence each

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful deal and tattered Tintins have a charm all their own! 😁

@davidsummer8631

3 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc And I might still have them

Random comment! I have been building up my collection of beautiful Egmont hard cover editions, and today bought Cigars of the Pharaoh. It seems that Egmont has rebranded itself as Farshore, and the results are disappointing. The pages are no longer glossy, they are more grainy, and the vibrancy of the colours has suffered as a result. I compared the hardcover Cigars.. With my softback, and there is quite a difference. I now regret not completing my Egmont collection earlier!

@ftloc

Жыл бұрын

I love random comments! But this is quite pertinent and interesting - I'm curious about this graininess and more muted colours! I'm guessing it doesn't nail a 'facsimile of the original' feel?

@Novaera89

Жыл бұрын

@@ftloc no, in fact it reminds me of the "Tintin on the Moon" bind up in terms of touch, but the colours were much more vibrant in that edition. The colours in this copy of COTP just seem very bland. Perhaps I am just too used to the glossy pages of my Egmont editions, although I know that these are not popular with everyone! Perhaps the matte pages are a welcome return?

Is there any 2 in 1 edition for the seven crystal balls adventure?

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

There is! Tintin in the Land of the Inca was advertised in the back of some of the books I read and I point it out here around 5:50

What is the best version of tin tin books that can be purchased on Amazon?

@ftloc

Жыл бұрын

In English? Probably the full sized hardcover albums from Egmont. Although purists will prefer the old editions with hand lettering from the 60s to 80s, those are hard to find now.

@gavsapir9271

Жыл бұрын

@@ftloc Could you send me a link please ?

@gavsapir9271

Жыл бұрын

I am new to Tin Tin, read two stories fell in love with it and am buying for my children. Want though to buy beautiful best volumes that can be in the shelf for years and paper back probably not the best option. Would appreciate a hardcopy reccomendation that for collection, and maybe another proposal that does not break the bank if too expensive. Could you please share links with me ? i love the books and loved the museum in Brussels too.

@gavsapir9271

Жыл бұрын

@@ftloc I am new to Tin Tin, read two stories fell in love with it and am buying for my children. Want though to buy beautiful best volumes that can be in the shelf for years and paper back probably not the best option. Would appreciate a hardcopy reccomendation that for collection, and maybe another proposal that does not break the bank if too expensive. Could you please share links with me ? i love the books and loved the museum in Brussels too.

Good to have you back! By coincidence I just received "Tintin: The Complete Companion" by Michael Farr and several Tintin comics in an exchanging Christmas Calendar with a College Friend from Belgium. Brings me right back to Saturday Mornings watching the 90's Nelvana Cartoon! kzread.info/dash/bejne/oomD1M-dncrJodo.html Since I last commented, I have acquired almost all of the original "Thorgal" comics by Van Damme & Rosiński, and many of the "Largo Winch" comics by Van Damme & Philippe Francq (loads of fun action scenes taken right out of an Hollywood 80/90s Action-Techno Thriller!). Combining his work on "Thorgal", "Largo Winch" & "XII" (with William Vance as the original artist), Van Damme have to be one of my top favorite comic writers ever, collaborating with top level artists such as Rosiński, Francq & Vance that really brings out the best of this stories and this art form!

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

I have that Farr book and really admire it! A slimmer volume also translated by Farr is the Tintin at Sea book, published by the Maritime Museum in London, I think. Both those books serve as bookends to the volumes of Tintin on my shelves! I read the first volume of Thorgal and really loved the variety in the stories, including the jumps in time, which made me think that there perhaps would be plenty to be mined (in flashbacks, say) in future stories. Unfortunately I'm having trouble finding the subsequent volumes now, but I've got my eye out! Thanks for the tips on the other Van Damme books, I will definitely be adding them to The List, cheers! 😀

do you know why the blue lotus in french is hard to find? i can easily find new casterman copies of most other books in french, but the blue lotus is only available used. do you know why this is? isn't that book just as popular as the others? i can only find the casterman mini versions and not the regular size

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Oh I didn't know that one was a bit harder to find in French! That's very surprising because it is one of the most popular volumes, definitely one I have encountered many people citing as their favourite or one of their absolute favourites. The English edition from Egmont is easily available. How odd!

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

😁

Btw who is Beñot peters?

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Benoit Peeters is a comics scholar and creator, particularly known for his academic work and his 'Obscure Cities' series of comics with Francois Schuiten.

Just no Cigars of the Pharaoh is not complete when you read it and yes there is a kind of question you will ask after reading you will ask .. who is the leader of the Smuggling ring .... its 2 Parter and people should accept it

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, fair enough, but There's through lines in Congo to America etc as well. It's definitely a two parter but what I meant is that it is one with incremental continuity , unlike the absolute cliffhanger of the other three stories, which would make no sense at all without their second parts!~

@felixleidig8307

3 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc I understand .. i just never saw Cigars in a way as a stand alone adventure. By the way i always wondered about the crab with the golden claws ...it looks like in this Book that the villain there is the Boss of the drug operation there ... in my head canon i always wondere i this is the last par of the smuggling ring that was still operating after Blue Lotus ... maibe a part tintin didnt found about .... if that would be true the villain in crab would be awso beyound the big boss

All I needed to see was the word Tintin and I clicked

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! I hope it lived up to the expectations!

So tragic Story of an Tintin fan in India🤣

@ftloc

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, it's a tragicomedy perhaps, and also quite a common symptom of the pre-internet era, I would say! 😁

@kennyparker5847

3 жыл бұрын

@@ftloc yah I can empathize with ya Now that I finally know all about Tintin in the post- internet era