Tintin In The Land Of The Soviets

It is a very good Belgian newspaper comic. Translated to English in original format. I'm a french person living in India, so I could buy the français version . But this version is for all readers . In this book tintin was the reporter for the Belgian newspaper le petit vingtième . He had to go moscow for a report, but ogpu or cheka kept following him till he safely reaches Brussels, belgium.

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Hi All,This is an extremely biased review. Please find the same below:Pros of owning this book:1. This is not only a book, this is a treasure.2. You can show off to your friends, and they will envy your happiness.3. You can read it from time to time to forget the worries of this world.4. Yes, the binding is good and no, I do not want the pictures in colour, they are just fine, thank you.Cons:1. Your family, might think, you are going bonkers.2. Your friends, might laugh at your inner child, but who cares.3. This might set you on a dangerous road, a road which will only end, when you have collected the last of the TinTin books. So beware of that temptation.

Book itself was in good condition. But being one of the first Tintin comics published it doesn't have the same quality and appearance of the Tintin comics we are familiar with. It is black & white and more a collector's item.

My son loves all Tintin books

Good read.

Its fascinating to see the maturing of the drawing as the story evolves. Its kind of amateurish and the story line is quite basic but for a fan its interesting to see the evolution of the art.Good print. Very quick delivery.

The pages inside are black and white....it is not mentioned in the description of the book !

Pretty cool.Interesting that it’s in black and white.Also his first book of the series apparently.

This first book in the Tintin collection was written about a couple of decades before the other ones. Therefore it is a LOT different from the other books to the point where you don't really recognise it as Tintin as all. Therefore this book is really only for completing your collection.The thing that really nagged me about this book was that Tintin was portrayed as a bit of an a**hole but the Russians were portrayed as much worse. Tintin was always seen as getting the upper hand and it all devolved into a bit of a comedy farce like Tom and Jerry. Getting pushed down stairs, crashing planes, wearing stupid costumes, chasing after trains....I can understand it being propaganda for the times Herge lived in but couldn't we make Tintin a more likable character and not so much a bully?As I said, this is just one to finish off the collection. But without all the regular characters, colour and a more likable Tintin, this book is nothing to brag about.

I think most reviewers here on Amazon did a good job on clarifying the context in which this work was created. A minority, however, seems to be composed of apologists for communism who don't like the true colors of bolshevism exposed.Judging this work by today's standards would be akin to criticizing Destination Moon for the way it portrays rocket ships and space travel.This is a comic strip, not a faithful representation of reality - expect exaggerations and simplifications to convey a greater point of view: that the Soviet Union's foundations were based on lies told by the communists, and that to maintain those lies a lot of work was done in the form of suppression, intimidation, misdirection and propaganda. Did Hergè perhaps go a bit too far? Yes - Tintin would've been thrown in a gulag somewhere and that would be the end of it. Not too much of a story, then. But the overall context becomes very clear once you read Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, which I highly recommend.If you like Tintin, this is a must-have for your collection, period. For kids, I'd suggest at least 9 or 10 y/o, preceded by some context about what communism is, as it can be quite difficult to understand the things that happen throughout the story if you're born and raised in freedom.

Written by Herge when he was young and starting out as a cartoonist for a magazine. It's an interesting book to have in your collection from a historic and character/artwork development perspective. It's quite a long story and isn't in colour and although there are some weak points in the script it's generally an exciting and enjoyable read. Snowy has a main part and it's funny to see his continual remarks and comments to Tintin throughout. Other regular characters are not a feature of the piece. The artwork fluctuates in quality especially the Soviet characters but even at this early stage Herge was great at drawing cars, trains and planes and really captures the movement and speed of these vehicles, it's a sign of some of the types of things we see in the other books. It's an enjoyable read and I'd recommend it, it's not just for enthusiasts and collectors.

I love it......................!