Red Rackham's Treasure: The Official Classic Children’s Illustrated Mystery Adventure Series (The Adventures of Tintin)

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Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine lives in Brussels and is a collector of models of ships, among which, one is the Unicorn. He appears in The Secret of the Unicorn, in the old market. Noticing another model of the Unicorn, he and another man Barnaby try to buy it, only to find that it has already been claimed by Tintin. Tintin declines all the offers made by Barnaby and Sakharine to buy the model off him. Creation [ edit ] Model of Brillant, the ship of the line of Louis XIV's fleet that inspired Hergé to draw the Unicorn.

The comic book introduced the character of Cuthbert Calculus, who become a pivotal character in subsequent comic books.Phostle was to return in Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon as a villain, but that early draft by Bernard Heuvelmans was abandoned by Hergé. [37] In Hergé's Adventures of Tintin' (made from 1957 to 1964), he was replaced by Professor Calculus. The Picaros [ edit ] He also studied other vessels from the period, such as the Le Soleil Royal, La Couronne, La Royale and Le Reale de France, to better understand 17th-century ship design. It was from the Le Reale de France that he gained a basis for his design of the Unicorn 's jolly boat. [20] No ship named the Unicorn was listed in the annals of the French Navy, but Hergé instead took the name from a British frigate which had been active in the mid-18th century; the fictional ship's unicorn figurehead was also adopted from the frigate. [20] Hergé (1943). The Secret of the Unicorn. Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner (translators). London: Egmont. ISBN 978-1405206228.

Peeters, Benoît (2012) [2002]. Hergé: Son of Tintin. Tina A. Kover (translator). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0454-7. Up until this point most of the scientists that Tintin had encountered have been eccentric, however Calculus, becoming a major character, becomes the eccentric scientist and all of the scientists that appear afterwards tend to be much more level headed. Thus it appears that Herge's quest for an eccentric scientist has come to an end and his cast list is complete. The Picaros are a band of guerillas in the country of San Theodoros, supposedly under the control of General Alcazar in Tintin and the Picaros. Alcazar has returned to his country and is attempting to command the Picaros to mount a guerrilla operation over of his arch-rival General Tapioca. However, the Picaros have become corrupt drunkards since Tapioca started dropping copious quantities of alcohol near their camp. Max Bird, the villain of the previous story, is mentioned to have escaped from prison. Thomson and Thompson suspect that the man is seeking revenge and could be hiding aboard the treasure-hunters' ship, which convinces the two officers to volunteer their services. By the time the story concludes, there is nothing to indicate that Max was ever aboard the ship — or even near it. The Thom(p)sons claim he was "discouraged by their presence," but in reality, that plot point was most likely just an excuse to get Thomson and Thompson into the story in the first place. Max never appears in any later albums, either, and his fate is never resolved. Alfredo Topolino is a Swiss expert in ultrasonics residing in Nyon, Switzerland, who appears in The Calculus Affair. An acquaintance of Professor Calculus, he survives first an assault on his doorstep then the destruction of his house by Bordurian agents interested in Calculus's work. His manservant Boris works for the secret service of that country. His last name means "little mouse" in Italian.

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This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) There is one thing though. One thread isn't tied off at the end, and one could argue this is a flaw to the otherwise perfect two-book Tintin adventure, but there is a reason for this flaw. Hergé intended to use this at some point in the series. The idea was even to make this a recurring thread that might pop up now and then in the rest of the series, but then he never found the right angle for it in any of the books. So a flaw, but one that had its reasons. Setting sail, they are joined by the police detectives Thomson and Thompson and soon discover that Calculus has stowed away on board, bringing his submarine with him. Dr. Krollspell is a German doctor and associate of Tintin's enemy Rastapopoulos in Flight 714 to Sydney, but he later changes sides when it is in his best interest to turn from his employer. Krollspell is an ex- Nazi scientist, probably based on Josef Mengele [19] or Adolf Hitler's personal doctor, Theodor Morell. In an interview, Hergé himself suggested that Krollspell had worked in a concentration camp— Flight 714 to Sydney having been published some 20 years after the war. The name "Krollspell" is Brussels dialect for krulspeld, which means " hair curler". Hergé participates more in the development process, and supervises a lot of meetings between his collaborators (Bob De Moor and Jacques Martin) and those of Belvision.

Herg (Georges Remi) was born in Brussels in 1907. Over the course of 54 years he completed over 20 titles in The Adventures of Tintin series, which is now considered to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, comics series of all time.When Cigars of the Pharaoh was first published in the 1930s, Sarcophagus was an unnamed and beardless scholar who wore sunglasses. When Tintin explored the tomb, he found sarcophagi for himself and Snowy but not for the scholar, who does not even turn up in the Red Sea incident—thus, how he ends up in India is unexplained. Tintin finds Sophocles in the Indian jungle completely by chance in a string of absurd coincidences, [44] painting the symbol of Kih-Oskh on palm trees. Tintin even speculates that the scholar is a member of the gang of drug smugglers that he finds himself pitted against. Sophocles is now completely mad because he has been given poison called Rajaijah, imagining himself to be Pharaoh Ramesses II. He is eventually committed to a sanatorium in India for treatment. In The Blue Lotus, an antidote for Rajaijah was developed, but it was never revealed whether Sarcophagus was cured.