Tintin in America (The Adventures of Tintin)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.59493
EAN: 9780316358521
Edition: First American
ISBN: 0316358525
Label: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 62
Publication Date: November 30, 1979
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Studio: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Features:- ISBN13: 9780316358521
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Review:Product Description:The boy hero comes to the United States and triumphs over gangsters in Chicago of the 1930's and the pitfalls of the wild West.
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Tintin sets off for lawless gangland America where he sets about bringing Al Capone and his gangs to justice. The whole story is one episode after another where the gangsters attempt to rub him out, only to fail; sometimes Tintin tries to get the upper hand by cornering the bad guys, only to suffer a setback. Of course, in the end all the bad guys are in jail. Tintin is knocked out, chloroformed, smashed in a car wreck, betrayed, gassed and beaten up by the cops, The story improves the physical action of some of the earlier Tintin tales, and there is a bit more realism than in the first two books (but not much). Tintin careens from the streets of Chicago to the wild west on the trail of gangster Bobby Smiles, who he finds in "Redskin City, a small place near the Indian Reservations." Bobby Smiles turns the natives against him, and once again it's Tintin versus an army of enemies - of course he prevails, mainly through luck (oil is discovered on the reservation, and in rolls the army, the carpet-baggers and profiteers, and in the blink of an eye there is civilisation in the middle of the wilderness). There are several other train wrecks, Tintin survives a lynching, a drowning, Snowy is dognapped (enter one inept hotel detective), but in the end nothing can stop our hero from ridding America of organised crime forever. Hooray for Tintin!
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"Tintin in America" was Belgian artist and storyteller Herge' third adventure for his cartoon hero, the youthful reporter Tintin. This story was first published in 1931, and updated by Herge in 1946 and 1973. It is often considered the first of the real Tintin adventures.
Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy come to America in pursuit of the Chicago gangsters whose diamond smuggling plot Tintin foiled in his previous adventure in the Congo. Unfortunately, the gangsters are out to get Tintin first. Tintin narrowly survives a series of assassination attempts by the mob before his pursuit of a gangland boss takes him out West. There, he encounters hostile indians and nearly falls victim to mistaken frontier justice, before finally catching his man. His return to Chicago prompts one last confrontation with organized crime.
"Tintin in America" features one cliff-hanger after another in what would be a frightening story if we didn't know that a resourceful and lucky Tintin always survives. The interactive dialogue between Tintin and Snowy is the narrative hub of this pre-Captain Haddock story. The story's weakness is that it deals in broad stereotypes of gangsters and Indians that probably made more sense in 1931. Fortunately, Herge has begun to work out the detailed artwork and meticulous narrative style that would characterize the later adventures. "Tintin in America" is highly recommended to Tintin fans of all ages.
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Tintin ends up in yankeeland, and as soon as he arrives, runs afoul of your garden variety 1930s Chicago gangsters. They want to get rid of him, for sure.
Of course, he has to end up in the Wild West, where multiple tries to have him lynched don't work, let alone the dog. This allows him to get to the bottom of the plot.
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Tintin's third album, originally published in 1931, is probable the weakest in the series. The young reporter goes to an America that looks like the standard Amerika of the European left: set in Chicago and the American West, the country is a commercialized hell populated by gangsters (whose leader is Al Capone himself, the only time a real person appeared in the whole series), greedy capitalists, uncultured rednecks and exploited redskins. As in the early albums, Tintin seems to escape from sure death at almost every page. Still, for those who accuse early Tintin books of being extremely right wing, it's interesting to see in page 29 how the expropriation of Indian lands for the exploration of oil is denounced. Also, in page 41 there is a very amusing satire of proto - radical environmentalism, as an old lady that is a member of an animal protection organization protests a mountain lion attacking a deer.
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Huge childhood fan of these books - they're even more comical when I read them now.
Copyright ©2003, Mark Carey.
