Name: Cigars of the Pharaoh

Author: Herge
Year: 1934
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Comic Books, Adventure, Children
Culture: France

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ISBNs:
9780316358361
0316358363

is one of Tintin's earliest adventures. He and Snowy are on a cruise to Egypt when they happen to meet Professor Sophocles Sarcophagus (the first of Tintin's absent-minded professors) and join his expedition. But they become embroiled in a complicated scheme involving a fakir, cigars marked with an unusual brand, and Rajijah, the poison of madness. Most significantly, Tintin meets the detectives Thompson and Thomson as well as the movie mogul Rastapopolous. While
is a self-contained story, some of the mysteries are resolved in
. Herge wrote
in 1932 then revised it in 1955, which is why the art has the more polished look of later stories as well as the anachronistic glimpse of a copy of
.
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