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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.
Tharkey is a Sherpa guide who helps Tintin locate the ill-fated Patna-Kathmandu flight carrying Chang Chong-Chen in Tintin in Tibet. Although reluctant to risk the perilous attempt to find Chang, whom he believes to be dead, Tharkey leads Tintin and Captain Haddock to the crash site of the aircraft.
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
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 ...
Cover of Le Petit Vingtième, Thursday, May 15, 1930, showing Tintin and Snowy returning from the land of the Soviets.. Hergé joined the subscription department of Le Vingtième Siècle, a conservative Catholic daily run by Norbert Wallez, [a 1] [b 1] in September 1925, where he was employed as a photojournalist and cartoonist from August 1927, after completing his military service.
Roberto Rastapopoulos is a fictional character who is the main antagonist of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.He first appears in the album Cigars of the Pharaoh (1934) and is a criminal mastermind with multiple identities, whose activities frequently bring him in conflict with his archenemy Tintin.
However, this album marks "the true farewell [of] heroes to the high seas," according to the expression of the professor Michel Pierre, since, in the last adventures of the series, Tintin's maritime escapades and walks in port docks are left behind, although the story of Flight 714 to Sydney is set on a Pacific island. [2]