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Double Albums: Which Tintin books go together?

yvanehtnioj1214
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#1 · Posted: 17 Oct 2006 02:28
Which Tintin books are multi-book stories besides Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon?
jock123
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#2 · Posted: 17 Oct 2006 09:22
Well Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure are a pair, as are Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun. Cigars of the Pharaoh and Blue Lotus are another pair, although to be honest I usually don't think of them that way, given that they came to English with a large gap between them, and I don't think they are so tightly bound as the other two-parters.

You can also look on Lotus and Tibet as a loose pairing, given that the latter is a sort of sequel to the former, but again they were released with a gap and in the "wrong" order in English.
yvanehtnioj1214
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#3 · Posted: 17 Oct 2006 12:04
Thanks for the reply.
jockosjungle
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#4 · Posted: 17 Oct 2006 19:32
You could say Tintin in the Congo and Tintin in America are also a pair, Tintin busts Al Capone's diamond racket and then goes after him in America. Maybe a little tenuous

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jock123
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#5 · Posted: 18 Oct 2006 11:57
jockosjungle
You could say Tintin in the Congo and Tintin in America are also a pair

Good point Rik! Yet again, given that the the two books arrived in English years apart and the wrong way round, I didn't really make the connection between them at all, but yes, the plots do go together.
Maybe I should stop storing my books in the English-language publication order...!
roman tintin
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#6 · Posted: 13 Jul 2007 21:46
I agree with most, but not Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus.

I guess The Crab with the Golden Claws goes with The Shooting Star and The Secret of The Unicorn goes with Red Rackham's Treasure and the big two are Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon.

[Mod's note: Two consecutive posts combined.]
jock123
Moderator
#7 · Posted: 14 Jul 2007 00:08
roman tintin:
I agree with most, but not Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus.

Why not those two for you?
They are in fact a pair as written by Hergé, although, as I said before, the fact that they came out so far apart in English diminished the link for me.

roman tintin:
I guess The Crab with the Golden Claws goes with The Shooting Star

I don't get this myself - the story doesn't follow through from one book to the next, and they aren't even an original and a sequel (which seems to be the criterion of some of the examples in this thread).
Why do you think they are a pair?

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