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Tintin explores for sunken pirate treasure with his friend Captain Haddock. The classic graphic novel. Tintin and Captain Haddock set sail aboard the Sirius to find the sunken remains of the Unicorn ship and notorious pirate Red Rackham's treasure.

Tintin searches the mountains of Nepal and Tibet for his friend, victim of an airplane crash.

Tintin aids his old friend the Emir Ben Kalish and fights the ruthless Marquis di Gorgonzola.

When opera star Bianca Castafiore is arrested on a visit to South America, Tintin and his friends come to her rescue.

Herge first published Le Lotus Bleu in the magazine Le Petit Vingtieme in Brussels in 1934-5: the story itself is set in 1931. At that time Japanese troops were occupying parts of the Chinese mainland, and Shanghai, the great seaport at the mouth of the Yangtze Kiang, possessed an International Settlement, a trading base in China for Western nations, administered by the British and Americans. Herge based his narrattive freely upon the events of the...