The Adventures of Tintin #[19] - Tintin and the Picaros

(May 30 1978)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Hergé ?

Inks

Hergé ?

Colors

?

Letters

?; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tintin and the Picaros

Characters

The Jolly Follies

Indexer Notes

Title page, front matter

Tintin and the Picaros (Table of Contents: 3)

Tintin / comic story / 62 pages (report information)

Script

Hergé; Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper (translation); Michael Turner (translation)

Pencils

Hergé

Inks

Hergé

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Tintin; Snowy; Captain Haddock; Professor Calculus; General Alcazar; Bianca Castafiore; Irma; Mr. Wagner; Thompson; Thomson; the Jolly Follies; Jollyon Wagg; Nestor; Pablo; San Thedoroan people; San Thedodoran police; San Thedodoran soldiers; Colonel Alvarez; Colonel Esponja [Sponsz]; Manolo; Ridgewell; Arumbayas; Peggy; Piacros; General Tapioca

Synopsis

After overthrowing General Alcazar, General Tapioca imprisons Bianca Castafiore and her entourage when they arrive in San Thedodoros on a singing your. Tintin, Calculus, and Captain Haddock make their way to San Theodoros in order to save their friends, and narrowly escape being murdered by Tapioca's men. They flee into the jungle to join General Alcazar and his Picaro rebels. Disguised as carnival dancers the Picaros enter the city, overthrow Tapioca, and rescue the prisoners from a firing squad.

Keywords

Central America; firing squad; Mesoamerica; pyramid; revolution; show trial

Indexer Notes

This is the last Tintin story completed by Hergé prior to his death.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)