70 Languages, 200 Million Copies; Evergreen The Adventures of Tintin Turns 95 Today

The Adventures of Tintin, aka Les Aventures de Tintin, completes 95 years of its glorious run across the globe. Created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, the series made its first appearance in French on January 10, 1929 (exactly 95 years ago) in Le Petit Vingtième (The Little Twentieth), a youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century).

The series is about Tintin, a courageous young Belgian reporter and adventurer. He is aided by his faithful dog Snowy, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, detectives Thomson and Thompson, and the diva Bianca Castafiore.

The Adventures of Tintin has been admired for the proper mix of action-adventure and mystery genres that also have a huge impact on themes like politics, history, culture, and technology. It became one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century across the globe and still continues to enjoy a great fan following.

After the success of the first comic in 1929, the comic has been extended up to 24 volumes, as follows:

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

Tintin in the Congo

Tintin in America

Cigars of the Pharaoh

The Blue Lotus

The Broken Ear

The Black Island

King Ottokar's Sceptre

The Crab with the Golden Claws

The Shooting Star

The Secret of the Unicorn

Red Rackham's Treasure

The Seven Crystal Balls

Prisoners of the Sun

Land of Black Gold

Destination Moon

Explorers on the Moon

The Calculus Affair

The Red Sea Sharks

Tintin in Tibet

The Castafiore Emerald

Flight 714 to Sydney

Tintin and the Picaros

Tintin and Alph-Art

Tintin has been published in more than 70 languages, with sales of more than 200 million copies, and has been adapted for radio, television, theatre, and film.

In recent times, The Adventures of Tintin was adopted by Steven Spielberg in 2011 for a big-screen spectacle. The comic is still kept alive for modern generations through online activities on www.tintin.com