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Flight 714 to Sydney (French: Vol 714 pour Sydney; originally published in English as Flight 714) is the twenty-second volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from September 1966 to November 1967 in Tintin magazine.
Flight 714 to Sydney (Vol 714 pour Sydney) (1966–1967) Tintin and the Picaros (Tintin et les Picaros) (1975–1976) Tintin and Alph-Art (Tintin et l'Alph-Art): Unfinished work, published posthumously in 1986, and republished with more material in 2004. 1: Actually begun in 1939 but left uncompleted in 1940, redrawn starting 1948.
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". Dr. Krollspell is the head of a psychiatric clinic in New Delhi (Cairo in the English version).
Source: [1] "If we can speak of a hymn to the sea in Hergé's work, it is also because the latter represents the only access to the unknown. For Tintin, thirsty for adventures and who, in The Shooting Star, has already set foot on the soil of four continents, the sea remains the only space still virgin and unexplored, which allows him to breathe air that no one has yet breathed."
Another occasion is in Flight 714 to Sydney when, due to some misunderstanding, he physically assaults Laszlo Carreidas and has to be held back with great effort by Haddock and Tintin. In the same book, despite his deafness, he hears Captain Haddock tell him that he's "acting the goat", but Haddock quickly prevents the severe reaction from ...
The book was considered by critics to be an antithesis of the previous Tintin ventures. [33] Michael Farr, author of Tintin: The Complete Companion, stated that in The Castafiore Emerald, Hergé permits Haddock to remain at home in Marlinspike, an ideal that the "increasingly travel weary" character had long cherished, [34] further stating that if Hergé had decided to end the Tintin series ...
In one scene, Tintin hides in a Shanghai cinema that is screening The Sheik's House, Rastapopoulos' film that Tintin witnessed being filmed in the preceding story, later learning that Rastapopoulos, currently staying in the city, was the last person to see a famous doctor who Tintin believes could cure the dangerous poison of madness (Although ...
Abdullah is a fictional character from The Adventures of Tintin, created by Hergé.He first appeared in 1949 in the second version of Tintin in the Land of Black Gold.Aged 6 at the time of his first appearance, he is the son of Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab, the Emir of Khemed, a fictional state on the Arabian Peninsula.