by Hergé
Call #: Jr. Graphic Novels HERGE
Tintin first appeared in the weekly newspaper supplemental Le Petit Vingtième in 1929 in Belgium.
This is the very first Tintin story. If you've read all the other Tintins then this one will look very odd to you. The artwork seems crude in comparison and is in black and white. While dealing with a serious subject it is also far more lighthearted than later Tintin tales.
In The Land of the Soviets is a product of it's times and the newspaper it ran in. This is not a fair and even handed tour of 1920's Soviet Russia but an attempt to educate young readers about the falseness and dangers of Communism.
Not the best Tintin, to be sure, but interesting to see how it all began.
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