Cigars Of The Pharaoh
| Cigars of the Pharaoh | |||||
| 4th album from the series The Adventures of Tintin | |||||
Reproduction of Cigars of the Pharaoh | |||||
| Author | Herg | ||||
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| Genre (s) | Franco-Belge Adventure | ||||
| Main Characters | Tintin Snowy Dupond et Dupont | ||||
| Action location | Middle East  Egypt  British India | ||||
| Editor | Casterman | ||||
| Published | 1934 (black) 1955 (color) | ||||
| Nb. Page | 62 (color) 127 (Black) | ||||
| Preprint | The Little Twentieth | ||||
| Album of the series The Adventures of Tintin | |||||
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Cigars of the Pharaoh (or is the fourth album of cartoon of Tintin , pre-published in black and white of 8 December 1932 to 1 February 1934 in the pages of supplement from newspaper . The color version of the album was released in 1955.
Summary |
Tintin is in cruise to the Far East. On board he meets an Egyptologist wacky, Philemon Siclone in search of the tomb of Pharaoh Kih-Oskh. Tintin soon becomes the target of a mysterious man who tries to get rid of him by pretending to police he was carrying cocaine with him. Tintin is stopped by two security officers, X33 and X33 bis (aka Dupond et Dupont ), holding it prisoner, with Snowy, aboard the steamer. As the boat made a stop at Port Said in Egypt, Tintin and Snowy escape, and they found shortly after Philemon Siclone. Tintin agrees to accompany him to Cairo in his expedition in search of the tomb-Kih Oskh. In the tomb, Tintin and Snowy are discovering mysterious cigars but are removed ...
Abandoned at sea, they are saved and landed in Saudi , where they are still wanted by the Thompsons. Then, after several adventures, they arrive in India from the Maharajah of Rawajpoutalah. They attack when the traffic in opium and partially dismantle a gang of traffickers. Tintin faces including one of its most dangerous in the person of a fakir hypnotist. Finally, Tintin discovers that cigars contain opium in question. But the identity of the gang's leader (ie, the man who tried to pretend he was carrying cocaine with him on the ship) it is still unknown ...
Background
It may be noted that this album seems only twelve years after the discovery of the royal tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun , and the scene of the disappearance of Egyptologists visiting the grave of Kih-Oskh refers to the supposed " Curse of the Pharaoh ".
Around album
- The original title in the newspaper Le Petit Twentieth (1932-1934) was The Adventures of Tintin, a reporter in the East, and The Adventures of Tintin, a reporter in the East - Cigars of the Pharaoh in the first edition of the album in 1934.
- Cigars of the Pharaoh is the first album directly printed by Editions Casterman. The previous albums were, at first, published by Editions du Petit Twentieth before in 1934 Herg accept the proposal of Louis Casterman.
- The arms dealer in that collects Tintin Red Sea aboard the dhow has the physique of a famous author at the time for these actions: Henry Monfreid.
- Hors-texts present in black and white edition of the album disappeared from the edition colors.
- Cigars of the Pharaoh is the first album where Herg will not send his hero to adventure is the adventure that comes to him and it is a rule that now apply to all Tintin albums.
- Even if they appear in the color version of Tintin in the Congo , Cigars of the pharaoh traditionally mark the first appearance of Thompsons under the code names of X33 and X33bis.
- For the first time in his long career, Tintin meets his nemesis, billionaire Rastapopoulos.
- The name of Philemon Siclone , never appears in the album black and white. It is only known by the nickname of "the learned."
- Edgar Pierre Jacobs helped Herg with the completion of the second version. It appears even in the album and also on the cover in the person of EP Jacobini (page 8 box 1) the 14th scientist who has "violated the tomb of Pharaoh Kih-Oskh. The Doctor Grossgrabenstein (character Jacobs appeared in the series Blake and Mortimer in the album " The Mystery of the Great Pyramid ) is also among these scholars.
- There is also evidence that other scientists have a name evoking or one of the protagonists in the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun (Mr = CARNAWAL Lord Carnarvon ), or simply the word hieroglyph barely disguised:
Discrepancies between editions
When it became obvious to Herge Casterman Louis and the adventures of Tintin were to continue in color, it was also decided that the old albums released between 1931 and 1942 also seem in color. However, the technical choices of Herg and cost requirements that should hold the publisher forced the author to significantly reduce the number of pages per album that would now be 62. Also, in 1942, Herge began work on the task, but it was not until 1955 that the new version of Cigars of the Pharaoh colors appeared, nine years after The Blue Lotus. This new edition has many different colors with black and white version which the important points are:
- Once Tintin shackled by the Thompsons, the passengers and crew discuss the reasons for the secrecy of Tintin (p. 12 boxes 1, 2, 3).
- When Tintin and Snowy are trapped in the tomb of Pharaoh, Snowy is decked with bat wings. Tintin did not see him again before leaving the sarcophagus (p. 16).
- The bodies of all Egyptologists are accompanied by the date of removal (for the Tintin 18-01-1933) (p. 17).
- Tintin and Snowy, then in their sarcophagi, are thrown overboard by sailors on the pretext that they are not goods and antiques, not because of the choice of Allan on the grounds that the coastguard are on the to intercept the ship (p. 21, box 3 and 4).
- Allan , the second of Captain Haddock in The Crab with the Golden Claws , does not appear in the 1934 version of the album.
- When he goes out of his sarcophagus, with Snowy Tintin is only the middle of the Red Sea (p. 22).
- Tintin never see Professor Siclone (whose name is never mentioned in the edition of 1934) and India (p. 67).
- In the first edition colors, Sheik Patrash Pasha watch Tintin album Tintin in the Congo. In the editions of 1934's Tintin in America (p. 29).
- Currently Sheik Patrash Pasha shows the album Destination Moon , yet published after Cigars of the Pharaoh. This may sound strange, but is that the second version of the album was released after Destination Moon. This blatant anachronism is certainly a nod to his readers of Herg. To the happy few, to quote Stendhal.
- In the version where Sheik Patrash Pasha watch Tintin in the Congo in the fifth thumbnail page 1 shows the map with stops in Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Yet in the version with the album Destination Moon map shows a path that makes a loop inside the only Mediterranean with stops in Tangier , Algiers , Tunis , Tripoli , Port Said , Istanbul , Naples , Marseilles and Gibraltar ... This error is corrected in 2006.
- Back on the dhow , Tintin is in the hold of the weapons smuggling. In the current version is Snowy pursuing a cat that makes this discovery.
- After crossing the desert, Tintin arrives in Mecca. In the color version, the name of the city is not indicated (p. 48).
- The name given by the Adjutant-Ibn-Nejd Bekhr Tintin is Bah-Bahr and non-Beh Berh, as in the color version (p. 49); become the adjutant sergeant and his name will be changed.
- Thompsons is a fate that Tintin's tomb and not a woman of the city (p. 56).
- Tintin, by fleeing the house, struck a soldier who calls him "Rumi" and not the Colonel (p. 58).
- In India, Tintin met a cotton farmer, Mr Reading. This character will disappear from the color version (p. 69).
- In the 1934 version, we discover that the Fakir was poisoned Zlotskwtz only several pages after it was hit by the dart. Currently we see the fakir launch the dart (p. 79).
- In the color version, Tintin escapes from the hospital by going over a wall without knowing how Snowy achieves this. In the 1934 edition, Tintin Snowy orders to go through the gate, but he is content to wait there, hence the separation of the two characters (p. 84). Snowy is therefore not abandoned along the railroad track, as in the color version. He will take the initiative to follow the railway track after hearing the doctor say that the hospital fled by train.
- At the station, in the 1934 version, Tintin is caught by members of the Red Cross (p. 90). In the current version are police who are responsible for that.
- Down in the well located in the tree, Tintin arrives in the first room where he must confront a group of cobras out of the base of a statue of Vishnu (p. 101). Once the Cobras avoided by using a bar of chocolate (p. 102), it passes through a corridor where he avoids falling into a pit with crocodiles (p. 103).
- Once freed from his bonds, the fakir encloses Tintin, the Thompsons and the Maharajah and tells them he will explode the entire underground complex (p. 101). Snowy is, using his urine, which turns off the lock of the explosive (p. 113).
- In the color version, the story continues immediately by the kidnapping of the son of the Maharajah. In the 1934 version, removing only occurs the next day. But at night (p. 113), the fakir returns and tries to kill Tintin with a Cobra. Once again, it will save Tintin Snowy charming the snake with a disk (p. 114).
- In the first color version, an error has crept into the dining scene in the palace of the Maharajah: Tintin when he said "Well, we have them," we see with Snowy, then he should be imprisoned Thompsons. It had to be deleted. But a similar error was not corrected when in fact involved in the Tintin film Rastapopoulos, Milou starts to pursue one of the players in the next box is next to Tintin and a third is seen come back with a piece of cloth.
- In the original version, "the scientist" anonymous white hair, is clean-shaven, and dark glasses. In the current version, Philemon Siclone has black hair and a beard the same color. He also wears glasses translucent (you can see his eyes).
- In the original version, the Senhor Oliveira da Figueira refers to the economic crisis of the 1930s. This reference has obviously disappeared from current version, since it appeared in 1955.
- When Tintin is involved in the film Rastapopoulos, the director spoke only English in the original version. In the current version of French, he speaks French.
Adaptations
Other versions of this album
- The first version of Cigars of the Pharaoh was published in 1934. This version is recognizable by its cover with the foreground a small image of Tintin hiding behind a column. These versions are called "Little Image Stuck." This version of the album was reissued in facsimile in 1984 then in 2009.
- In 1942 , for Saint Nicolas , a new version of the album sounds. This edition is recognizable to a foreground is a large image showing Tintin always behind a column, but a much higher quality and more beautiful. This edition of the album is particularly rare and sought after by collectors.
- In 1955 , the current edition colors seem even if the other albums are all black and white published between 1946 and 1947. This long delay may be explained by the start of construction by Herg albums The Seven Crystal Balls , Prisoners of the Sun , of Tintin in the Land of Black Gold , of Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon.
Animated Version
This album was adapted into the animated series from 1992. This version includes full color version of 1955.
External Links
- The original drawings that appeared in the Little Twentieth since 1932
- Boards colorized reprinted in the Journal of Tintin from 1975
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