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Summary: Anti-Soviet propaganda from Tintin the boy reporter.
Review: A childish condemnation of the early Soviet period by Herge.
This first full-length Tintin story is interesting from a historical perspective. In black & white illustrations.
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Summary: The drawing is not as crisp as the subsequent TinTins
Review: A very funny book. I enjoyed the story very much. However, the drawing is not too sharp (as we are used to in TinTin comic books). The faces of TinTin and Snowy are very rough. Herge definitely improved his drawings in the subsequent TinTins. The story is really funny.
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Summary: An inditement of the cruel intellectuals of the time
Review: Amazing how, in 1929, a comic book could reveal more truth about Bolshevik Russia, than all the hypocritical and cruel academics of the world could.
While the Western fellow travelers of the Soviet tyranny, where presenting the Soviet Union, as a utopian brave new world, Herge reveled the true hell on earth that it was (and that all Marxist-Leninist regimes have been since), through this amazing adventure, and the true villainy of the Communists and their Western backers.
Who knows how the immoral leftist academics are deceiving us today.
Moral clarity and simplicity is needed more than ever today, as the Judeo-Christian world, and our great Western civilization , is threatened by evil forces today, in new guises, and much of the intellectual and media establishment turns it around and condemns those who are fighting to sustain freedom while sanitizes devils.
And anyway , it is a great Tinitn adventure , vital to everyone's Tintin collection.
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Summary: Herge saw the Soviet Union for what it was.
Review: At a time when writers of 'greatness', such as G.B Shaw, made up fairy tales about the USSR Herge told it like it was in a comic book!!!
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Summary: First Tintin - a must-have for Tintin lovers
Review: For a long time I owned all the Tintins depicted on the back cover of "The Adventures of Tintin" and thought I had it all, until I learned about the existence of 3 other titles: "Tintin in the Congo," "Tintin Et L'Alph-Art" (his very last unfinished work), and this one, which happens to be his very first Tintin Adventure. Naturally, I quickly obtained all three. This being the very first Tintin ever, it is a remarkable work and is a must have for any Tintin lover. However it is not the Tintin you would expect. First of all, this hardbound edition contains a photocopy of the original black and white strips. There is no color edition. It contains almost twice the number of pages as regular Tintins, so it is a good deal for the money. The Tintin and Snowy look somewhat different from the ones we know. In fact, Tintin starts out this adventure without his famous tuft of hair, so you need to read it to find out why his hair sticks up like it does now. The artwork is less detailed and less elaborate than we're used to. Nevertheless it retains a air of elegant simplicity that makes it a masterful work of art. Another major difference is the rapidity of the action. At that time, Herge was writing this adventure strip by strip for a weekly Belgian newspaper, unlike later adventures when he created it page by page. The adventure therefore moves much more quickly in order to keep readers interested in getting the next edition. Because of this some of the action appears unreal and much is left to impossible coincidences. Nevertheless, nearly all the action "tricks" that Herge uses to rescue Tintin in later adventures can be found here. Police chases, encounters with trains, mobsters, etc. are also prevalent. In fact many of these action incidents are reworked almost exactly in Tintin in America. As far as the content, one must keep in mind that this Tintin was written in the 1920s - a time when Europe felt threatened by Communism, and also written for an anti-Communist church-run newspaper. The Russians are therefore depicted in the most unfair way, a bias that Herge had to apologize for later in life. Unlike his thorough research for later adventures, Herge bases Tintin's Soviet experiences on just a single book he had read, written mostly for propaganda purposes. Despite this major weakness, I would highly recommend this Tintin adventure. The political views therein are merely a sign of the times.
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Summary: The begining of many great adventures. a must for all kids!
Review: In a world, where entertainment for kids is computer games and comic books of fairytales human super heros, it is refreshing to be ale to share with your child an author who uses historical facts in his stories.
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Summary: First Tintin - a collectors item and must have for all fans
Review: The first ever Tintin. Although I have been a fan of Tintin since I was a kid, I actually did not learn of this tintin till I was an adult.
And it was probably just as well. The story is in reality a political satire, and the strips are in black and white and it is evident Herge was just beginning to develop his style. I doubt if I would have gone on to read the other tintins as early, if I had read this first
Herge actually wrote this comic book without ever visiting Russia, just having read a book on Russia.
Being an avid Tintin fan I have enjoyed this book thoroughly. A must have for all Tintin fans.
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Summary: Actually you should probably read the first Tintin tale last
Review: The value of "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" is as much historical as it is literary since this is the first of Les Aventures de Tintin created by Hergé. The date is January 10, 1929 and in Brussels the intrepid young reporter for "Le Petit Vingtième" Tintin and his dog Milou board a train for Moscow. There Tintin spends his time denouncing the methods of the Communist Party and then avoiding attempts by the Soviet secret police to silence him for his views. By the time Tintin makes it back home word of his exploits has arrived ahead of him and he is greeted as a hero. Today "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" constitutes something of a false start for Hergé's series. The seven volume collection of the Three-in-One series of "The Adventures of Tintin," which is probably the most common way for today's readers to get a hold of the Tintin stories, begins with the third adventures, "Tintin in America." Both this story and "Tintin Au Congo" are left out of the "official" canon, the former because of the suspect ideology and the latter because of the implicit racism. What emerges in the other eighteen Tintin tales is more pure storytelling that takes place in a created world that bears only an allegorical relationship to the real world. Besides, Tintin does not even have his trademark tuft of hair at this point. Consequently, Tintin fans who track down the first couple of adventures will need to take both tales with a grain of salt. Whereas the other stories tend to stand on their own, the first two are clearly dated. "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" especially requires commentary or annotation that reveals exactly what was going on in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s that Hergé and the left found necessary to attack, even in a comic book adventure. I know that Hergé was working for "Le Petit Vingtième," an anti-Communist church-run newspaper, but I also know that he also apologized for this book later in life because he had never actually visited the Soviet Union and had based his story on one book, which was apparently written for propaganda purposes. Consequently, it is fairly safe to say that this particular Tintin adventure is really not intended for children until they are old enough to understand the politics of the time in which it was written. It might be ironic that you should read the first couple of Tintin adventures after you have read the other eighteen, but that is probably the best way to proceed.
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Summary: In 1929 Le Petit Vingtieme sends Tintin to the U.S.S.R.
Review: The value of "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" is as much historical as it is literary since this is the first of Les Aventures de Tintin created by Hergé. The date is January 10, 1929 and in Brussels the intrepid young reporter for "Le Petit Vingtième" Tintin and his dog Milou board a train for Moscow. There Tintin spends his time denouncing the methods of the Communist Party and then avoiding attempts by the Soviet secret police to silence him for his views. By the time Tintin makes it back home word of his exploits has arrived ahead of him and he is greeted as a hero. Today "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" constitutes something of a false start for Hergé's series. The seven volume collection of the Three-in-One series of "The Adventures of Tintin," which is probably the most common way for today's readers to get a hold of the Tintin stories, begins with the third adventures, "Tintin in America." Both this story and "Tintin Au Congo" are left out of the "official" canon, the former because of the suspect ideology and the latter because of the implicit racism. What emerges in the other eighteen Tintin tales is more pure storytelling that takes place in a created world that bears only an allegorical relationship to the real world. Besides, Tintin does not even have his trademark tuft of hair at this point. Consequently, Tintin fans who track down the first couple of adventures will need to take both tales with a grain of salt. Whereas the other stories tend to stand on their own, the first two are clearly dated. "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" especially requires commentary or annotation that reveals exactly what was going on in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s that Hergé and the left found necessary to attack, even in a comic book adventure. I know that Hergé was working for "Le Petit Vingtième," an anti-Communist church-run newspaper, but I also know that he also apologized for this book later in life because he had never actually visited the Soviet Union and had based his story on one book, which was apparently written for propaganda purposes. So it is fairly safe to say that this particular Tintin adventure is really not intended for children until they are old enough to understand the politics of the time in which it was written. It might be ironic that you should read the first couple of Tintin adventures after you have read the other eighteen, but that is probably the best way to proceed. One of the reasons "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" is not part of the official canon is because the story is told in black & white. The other reason would be that the artwork is a lot rougher and simplistic, with none of the detailed backgrounds that Hergé would use in contrast to the simply drawn Tintin figure. This board book edition is oversized, so it will be the same size as the single volume editions of "The Adventures of Tintin" but will tower over the hardback volumes that collect three Tintin stories in one.
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Summary: Good, but not brilliant
Review: This is an excellent Tintin but defintly not good as others. The illustrations are kinda rushed and it isn't in colour. This is about Tintin going to Russia and has to write an article about something and this group called Ogpu keep trying to him. A must have for Tintin collectors. Happy Reading !
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