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American newspapers' titles are mentioned in Congo (p.11), in America (p.46) & in The Calculus Affair (p.42).

In which other album is such a newspaper mentioned?
Please quote name of newspaper, album and page.

I've spotted a copy of Life on a magazine stand in The Calculus Affair (p42, second line), but as Life is strictly speaking a magzaine rather than a newspaper, I expect this isn't what you're meaning, is it?

Balthazar
Life is strictly speaking a magzaine rather than a newspaper

Yes! and it's excluded by the very question.

The clue is this paper features somehow very much like 'The Tokyo Express'.

Firstly, sorry not to notice (when writing my last post) that you'd already covered p42 of The Calculus Affair in your question. I must have been half-asleep when I read it!

Anyway, I think I've spotted the correct answer now. On p42 of The Broken Ear (third line, second frame) a boy is selling copies of the Sanfacion Star.

I'd wondered about non-US American newspapers when I first read the question, but hadn't been able to think where any were seen until your Tokyo Express clue jogged my memory. (I'd checked the torn newspaper in Prisoners of the Sun in case it was called the Andean Advertizer or something, but it's untitled.)

Well done, Balthazar!
This local newspaper, a special edition connected with war propaganda, just like 'The Tokyo Express' in The Blue Lotus (p.22), is also sold by a town crier.

San Theodoros is explicitly located in South America by Herge (The Broken Ear, p.1-B2), so does implicitly its neighbour Nuevo Rico.

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