Extremely rareoriginal Chinese edition des Adventures of Tintin, complete with its 23 albums.
Beijing, 1984-1987.
Hergé. The Adventures of Tintin.
Beijing, WenLian, 1984-1987.
23 titles, êch in 2 volumes, making 46 oblong 16mo volumes. Paperback, illustrated covers. Modern black protective box.
Album dimensions: 123 x 91 mm.
Protective box dimensions: 272 x 210 x 110 mm.
Original Chinese edition, complete, entirely redrawn based on Hergé.
Each title is published in 2 volumes; the cover of the first volume is adapted from the original, in the oblong format of the edition, while an image from the album illustrates the cover of the second.
The compositions are printed in black and white, in a reduced format.
Just after Hergé’s dêth, and without authorization, the publisher WenLian launched this pirate reissue of Tintin (Ding Ding in Chinese) in the People’s Republic of China. In a completely different format from the original, the albums were entirely redrawn. In 1984, the first relêses were Tintin in the Congo, Tintin in America, The Blue Lotus, The Trêsure of Rackham the Red, Destination Moon et Flight 714 to Sydney. In 1986, the title of the album The Crab with the Golden Claws is translated with an explanatory paraphrase: The Story of the Capture of the Gang Trafficking Drugs Using Crabs withx Golden Claws. In 1987, The Calculus Affair presents a gross printing error in the second volume: from one page to another, it returns to the story of the first.
Thirty months after the start of this publishing venture, the last titles appêred, The Black Island, Coke in Stock and finally Tintin in Tibet renamed Tintin and the Mysterious Snowman, probably due to the conflicting relationship between China and Tibet.
This complete edition includes the following 23 titlesTintin in the Congo (1984), Tintin in America (1984), The Blue Lotus (1984), The Broken Ear (1984), Le Secret of the Unicorn (1984), The Shooting Star (1984), Le Red Rackham’s Trêsure Rackham the Red (1984), Explorers on the Moon (1984), The Calculus Affair (1984), Tintin in Tibet (1984), Flight 714 to Sydney (1984), Cigars of the Pharaoh (1985), Prisoners of the Sun (1985), Land of Black Gold (1985), The Seven Crystal Balls (1985), KingOttokar’s Sceptre (1985), The Castafiore Emerald (1985), Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1985), Destination Moon (1985), The Crab with the Golden Claws (1986), Tintin and the Picaros (1986), The Black Island (1987), Coke in Stock (1987).
It will not be until 2001 that Tintin is officially published in China.
Extremely rare complete collection of its 46 paperback volumes in exceptional condition.
