Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Seen on ebay




Tintin and Alph Art

"Ultra-rare English-language colour version of the Yves Rodier/Herge Tintin book originally completed in the early 1990s. It has a different cover to the French colour edition which can often be seen on Ebay.

"This edition published by Rackham, numbered limited edition (inner page says this is copy #17 of 50 copies). Fine-mint condition large format book in card covers, bound with cloth spine."

Thursday, February 18, 2010



I love these alternative covers for Cigars of the Pharaoh and King Ottokar's Sceptre. They are from 1942 editions but Casterman have recently reissued them in (French only).

TIntin and the Blue Oranges


The book of the movie. Considered by many to be not as good as Tintin and the Golden Fleece a few years earlier. Professor Calculus invents an orange that will grow in all climates from a desert to an iceberg. This will solve food shortages for peoiple living in these areas, and so naturally bad guys kidnap Calculus. Oh, and the oranges happen to be blue.
The book is the same size as the Tintin adventures. It has descriptive text and dialogue from the movie, some colour photos and a few drawings.