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Tintin's Adventures in Books and Film Maintain Internet Popularity

Tintin's adventures began eighty years ago, when he first appeared in a conservative Roman Catholic newspaper in Belgium. Tintin was created by Georges Remi, under the penname Hergé (as his initials, reversed, are pronounced in French).

Through twenty-four books (albums, as they are usually called), Tintin rambles around the globe and through the twentieth century with his canine sidekick Snowy (Milou, in the original French), joined by a variety of characters (from an operatic soprano to an abominable snowman) and legions of readers in some seventy languages.

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