TINTIN: CIGARS OF THE PHARAOH | Edition Comparison | 1934 and 1955 | Casterman and Methuen 

So the timeline is as follows: 1932 to 1934 - Cigars of the Pharaoh is serialised. Just a small correction - the sheik owns Tintin in America, not Tintin in the Congo. 1934 - Cigars of the Pharaoh is published in album form, unchanged from the serialised version. Above the title is Tintin en Orient. A facsimile of this edition is published by Casterman in French in 1984. 1938 - Four full-page, full-colour panels are added to the album. Tintin en Orient is removed from above the title. A facsimile of this edition is published by Casterman in French in 1993 and by Last Gasp in English in 2006. 1942 - The cover at now takes up the whole cover, based on the original one. A facsimile of this edition is published by Casterman in French in 2009. 1955 - Cigars of the Pharaoh published in colour for the first time, eight years after the previous colourisation (King Ottokar's Sceptre). Some scenes are change or removed, others added. The album is reduced to 62 pages. The four full-page, full-colour pages are removed. The cover art is completely changed. The sheik owns the colour edition of Tintin in the Congo. Text about the rest of the story in The Blue Lotus is added at the bottom. A facsimile of this edition is published by Casterman in French in 2003 and by Egmont in English in 2008. 1970 - The map on page 1 changes from an Asian journey to a European cruise. The French text does not change, leading to anachronism. The sheik now owns Destination Moon, another anachronism. 1971 - The English translation of Cigars of the Pharaoh is published by Methuen. The text on page one is based off he European cruise map. At this time, the translators are working off their own chronology, in translation order. Cigars of the Pharaoh is the fourteenth album published in English. Therefore a number of issues are introduced. - Snowy references Marlinspike on page 1 - Tintin says he already met Rastapopoulos, as The Red Sea Sharks and Flight 714 were translated before this. It still doesn't make sense - why would Tintin trust Rastapopoulos after those two adventures? -When the Thompsons say "Your name is Tintin?", Tintin says "Of course!" instead of "Yes, why?" Since The Blue Lotus was regarded as problematic (racist and dates), Methuen had no plans to publish it at the time. For this reason, the text about that adventure at the end is removed. English-language readers would have to wait twelve years to find out who the gang leader is. Methuen abandon their translation timeline in 1975. 1983 - The map on page 1 is changed back to an Asian map, but a different drawing to the 1955 map. The English text remains unchanged, and is still based on a European cruise. 2005 or 2006 - The English text is changed to reflect the Asian cruise. 2006 - The black-and-white facsimile published by Last Gasp in English contains a new translation. 2016 - Cigars of the Pharaoh is published digitally on iOS and Android. It contains a new translation - but retains the mistake about Tintin having met Rastapopoulos! Great video by the way! I never noticed how they changed Tintin and Snowy from talking to each other to talking to themselves.

I love these videos. I read Tintin as a young girl in Denmark twenty years ago and your affectionate, endearing and thorough comparison just brings back a lot of happy memories for me. Plus you are just darn charming!

Fascinating! I was aware of Tintin as a teen, mostly because they were available in so many languages and were used (here in California) for language instruction, but I never read them. Fast forward 20 years and we raised our son on them. Cigars and Blue Lotus always seemed to me to be "the real Tintin" before the comedy elements (Haddock and Calculus) got out of hand (for me, as an adult). Also, i love the drug-smuggling plot - real-world stuff, not too cartoony.

It’s been a long time since I commented, Cigars and The Blue Lotus are my favourite Tintin because of the mystery and suspense

I love your videos with Tintin comparisons, really interesting !

I'll tell you how these two books feel like to me. It's like looking at the same scene, but through cameras held by different people having almost the same but slightly different sensibilities. Or maybe the same story plays out in two universes, one more anachronistic than the other

Fascinating video. Love seeing the evolution of an artist, especially in this case as I always took Herge's style for granted.

I don't know whether I prefer the black and white version or the later edition. I think the black and white one has some more explanation/worldbuilding that the new version completely throws out. I like how the Arabian city is Mecca and not just some nondescript place. I like the traps in the cult's hideout near the end. I prefer Rastapopulous being in a conflict with a rival gang smuggling weapons, to Tintin just finding out about these arms smugglers at random.

I can only assume "It's not the first time we've met" is a reference to the banquet held in Tintin in America, in which a character that looks remarkably-similarly to Rastapoulos is seen next to Tintin, though he's not named.

I love your Tintin videos! I finished off my Tintin collection a few weeks ago and have been re-reading the entire series. Keep up the awesome videos!

I think Herge had no option but to remove the feet in the panel in the later addition at 15:14 as the panel was narrower.

Yesss! Thank you soooo much!!! I've been waiting for this a while! Thanks!!! 😄

First TinTin adventure I ever read. I just love the wear and tear of your Methuen copy. Well read and enjoyed. Great splash panel in the original of the ship in the middle of the ocean and those gorgeous bonus colour panels. Great stuff as usual. Cheers.

I've just discovered your channel. You're the real-deal, a true comics fan and it's evident in your analysis and observations. I'm looking forward to viewing all of your videos. Cheers!

The paper back UK edition I picked up last year still has destination moon in that panel.

thank you very much.

Take a look at Tintin in America, page 57 bottom left, Tintin is at the table next to Rastapopoulos, so he had briefly met him before Cigars of the Pharaoh although the character was not named yet.

Wow. Excellent trivias and so amazing facts and details.. such a great comparitive study... thanks a lot

This is great!! Thanks for bringing back my childhood!!

10:58 I think why they had desdenation moon is because the Redwan colourized version of cigars of the pharoah was published in 1955 and desdenation moon was published in 1953 to show readers (I think) to read desdenation moon!

I love the "rather crude" old drawings in the facsimile editions... esp. the color reproductions - great video!

Your videos are really well made! You have a lot of interesting things to say about everything! Keep it up!

Thank you very much for this nice video. I had been waiting for such a comparison for long. Dear Joseph Murphy has nicely mentioned the changes and developments in the English translaton of the book. Humblely, If I may add to his great comments, the English translators has changed the order of the dialogues to make it appears at as an stand alone story. In original French version, on page 1 frame 2 tintin says "Oui, mon brave Milou, domain nous arriverons à Port-Said, où nous ferons escale." (Yes my brave Sonwy tomorrow morning we will arrive at Port-Said where we will go ashore.) In frame 3 Snowy says "Encore une escale! A quand le terminus?" (Again going ashore! When it will be finished?) Tintin replies "Nous ferons alors la traversée du canal de Suez. Ensuite, escale à Aden" ( We will pass through the Suez Canal. Then we go ashore at Aden). In frame 4 tintin says "Et puis, encore une escale à Bombay, puis une à Colombo dans l'île de Ceylan." (And then, we will stop at Bombay , then at Colombo, in Ceylan island.) This is not translated in English version. Snowy says "Ça n'en finira jamais" (It's not going to finish then!). English translators replace this sentence with " I'd rather settle for Marlinspike." to make it fits the order of publication in English . The map in frame 5 both in French (1983) and English (1971) editions are the same showing North Africa and Europe. Only in recent editions the map is replaced by the original one which shows Suez Canal and Asia . In frame 6 Tintin says "Et puis, il y aura encore Singapour, puis Hong Kong, et enfin Shanghai, but de notre voyage." (And then we will arrive at Singapore, then Hong Kong, and finally Shanghai, the destination of our trip.) And on page 4 frame 5 . It is part of the original French text that Tintin says " En effet, Ce n'est pas le premier venu..." (indeed, it is not the first time... [we have met]). So it is not the addition of the English translators.

This was one of my absolute favourite books ! As a kid it fascinated me ! I own three copies of the book myself .

Brilliant video, I really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to your Blue Lotus comparison.

I have just found out that Microids is making a video game adaptation of Cigars of the Pharaoh. Neat. And it seems like it's going to be first adventure/investigation game based on Tintin. All the previous ones were action platformers. Although this one will feature some action gameplay, too.

Love Tintin. Such a stunning culture built around it.

I think now when we read Tintin, we get the egmont edition but the methuen and magnet editions are really rare for us.

Thanks for this comparison, never knew this earlier version existed

i love them. they r one of my favourite books. like if u love them like me

Got my hands on my first black and white fac-similie. Very excited.

Cigars is probably my favorite Tintin. I love watching him figure out the mystery and the different settin are amazing. I also love how it leads so well into Lotus. The mystery is brilliant. The subtle hints that the leader of the Kih-Oskh is who he is like in the newspaper at the end are brilliant as well. I figured it out and when the twist occurred at the end of Lotus I felt exceedingly proud of myself. I love this book and it’s sequel. Also, in the redrawn version of Tintin in America Rastapopoulos is shown at the banquet Tintin is kidnapped from. That’s why in the redrawn Cigars Tintin remembers him.

Great review of my favorit comic. In my serbian edition from early 90s there is no mention of mulensar in the begining, nor Tintin mention that he already met Rastapopulos. He sad, yes we will meet again. But sheik does show him fligh to moon.

I would love to see a video like this on the blue lotus(which is my favorite Tintin book in the series)

Have been watching your videos for a few days. Top notch. My favourite TIntin volume would be....The Picaros (for the romanticized Cuban touch) and Flight 714 (for the Ancient Astronaut touch).

Great video. There are a lot of people who don't know the black and white album. I find it very good to explain the differences between the two. A few comments. - In your color version leaf 1 to the 3rd vignette (draw) Tintin says they are going to Istanbul. In the French version they go to Bombay, Colombo then Ceylan. On the 4th vignette they go to Hong-Kong then to Shanghai. In your Album they talk about the Strait of Gibraltar. - When he meets Rastapopoulos he says "It's not the first time we've met". In the French color album he says "Indeed, He's not the first comer". which makes more sense. But it is true that in Tintin in America we can think that he's in the banquet on leaf 57. - Hergé was influenced by japanese prints and I find that the last vignette on leaf 12 is a tribute to "the great wave" of Hokusai. I prefer the color version. I find the story better constructed and the vignettes (drawings) of great poetry.

Thanks for the review. I already got the Casterman black and white hardbacks of Tintin in America, Cigars and Blue Lotus years ago. Still looking for an available cheaper online copy of the Last Gap Tintin in Congo.

Rastapopulos appeared in one of the last pages in Tintin in America

4:36 - You know, in Tintin in America ,( page -57) there was a guy that looks like RP. So , maybe he was talking about that. I'm not sure since they never said if it was him or not. But the design is similar.

I feel that the sequence incongruities that appear here and there due to the updating of the stories argues very well for reading/entering the Tintin realm in "comic strip/comic book time", meaning allowing for a certain nebulousness in the time-lines of all the tales. Much like, say, the Peanuts characters never really aging: This is just a kind of un-tethered to real time concept in which many fictions---especially graphic novel fictions---take place. I've read the tales with no regard whatsoever for the release dates of the books, so any little anachronisms that crop up don't intrude in my enjoyment (although I realize the desire to read them in "proper" order must certainly be a pretty strong one). BUT it IS interesting to see that these discrepancies exist in a strict sense, so I appreciate your having taken the time to point them out. I wish that the original newspaper versions would be put into book form, especially if they could be printed on a paper that had a kind of old newspaper coloration: I find pure white backgrounds for comic book reproductions to take away from the "feel" they had when first encountering them (In the same way, I think that new editions of the works of H.P. Lovecraft should not be printed on pure white paper---or the writings of any old writings. Too sterile...but that's a subject for another time.)

Can you pls make a PDF of the older version It will be very nice 😊

Had no clue that there were 9 B/W books before the colour ones. I only knew "Soviet deshe Tintin" & "Kongo-ye Tintin" to be the only sada kalo ones.

Good video

Really interesting video and I also like your style of explaining. Could you tell me where I can get to read the first few Tintin books in the original versions (before they were redrawn)?

Please do a Blue Lotus one as well. Thanks!

i love this book

Nice

I always wondered where could I find one of those old, non-glossy editions of Tintin with the hyslop font. By sheer luck, or one mighty say by divine intervention, I found two Methuen editions of Tintin books last week in Guwahati. One is 'The Calculus Affair' and the other one is 'The making of Tintin- Mission to The Moon'. The second one contains both 'Destination Mon' and 'Explorers on the Moon'. I'm rejoicing the art, the print quality and the fonts of the Methuen editions.

I has copies of The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko from Herge which unfortunately I have lost. There are some elements in the Valley of Cobras that reminded me of Cigars of the Pharoah. Can't find a copy anymore sadly

If you look well into Tintin in America you can spot Rastapopoulos sitting next to Tintin in page 57

I like your video, which book do you like? Original or redrawn version?

Tintin Reporter: Cigars of the Pharaoh launches in 2023 for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC

It's basically a comic book remake. :P I remember something similar happening with "Tytus, Romek & A'Tomek" here in Poland. The author went back to the first few comics and re-drew them from scratch and made some narrative alterations. I think the first three TR&A comics got this remake treatment. The first 17 volumes of TR&A were drawn in a horizontal format (kinda like the Garfield collections). From volume 18 onward, the author switched to the more common vertical format. And the three "remake" volumes were drawn in that vertical format. The original horizontal volumes are actually easier to come by these days thanks to the 25-volume collection box set. And the later "remakes" are harder to find since they've been out-of-print for a very long time. I have to admit, it's really frustrating this "complete" collection is not really complete at all! It's missing the three remake volumes (1-3) and also the last 6 volumes (26-31) because they were published by another company. And there's a bunch of other stuff missing, too. All in all, 22 volumes are missing: - 3 remake volumes - Volume 0 (a bunch of pre-Volume 1 short comics) - 80th Anniversary Volume - a volume that promoted a Polish TV station, TVP-1 - the last 6 regular volumes from the main series (published by another publisher) - 10 "historical" volumes in which the 3 main characters find themselves in the middle of various historical events (like the American Revolution, for example) This became quite a rant. Sorry. :P

As a child it was really exciting to see India in my favourite graphic novel.

tintin and Rastapopoulos did meet at the 3rd book if you payed attention

Fine tuning by Adit for speak by my brother benefit

Nice video. Tintin is one of the first comics I have read. A member of our church lent it to me when I was in the hospital some 20 years ago. Now I am planning on buying them. Could you please recommend a good edition ? I have found quite a few of them on Amazon and am confused as to which one to buy.

Please Review the indusverse comics.

A lot of the stuff removed from the third act were pure Indiana Jones.

What's your take on the fonts in the English facsimile version? Not to open a can of worms, but as soon as I got my copy I found the fonts were a let-down (I had read about it in reviews before but thought it wouldn't bother me). The all-caps comic sans isn't too bad, but the fonts appearing in the posters and letters look seriously poor. Still, it doesn't take away from the fact that these editions are great to own.

The most modern edition has Destination Moon still. Not sure if that's someone being lazy or trying to stay consistent.

Hi Can you share your suggestion on a graphic novel where murder investigation is the theme. Thank you

Can you put a video on tintin the crab with the golden claws old black and white version hardcover! comic book! Please my favourite is it?

Pardon me, sir, but will you tell where can I find the black and white version of this book.

I am thinking of buying my niece and nephews Tin-tin.. What should I buy?

Make video on Mouse Guard

Where can I get a PDF of the earlier version of cigars of Pharoah of Tintin

Sir, can you provide a link from where I can find the facsimile version? I have the redrawn version. The reason I want it because there are some deleted scenes. Some publishers always wants to publish a book with many pages as you want but upto 62. Why? Children can read innumerable pages even upto 144 pages.

I have recently re-read all my Tintin comics, and I was wondering if you had any recommendations for classic European comics that are in the same vein as Tintin as I would love to expand my horizons. Cheers!

I'm such fake fan. I've been reading Tintin books for years and I just now find out there were older versions of them :D

Where do you get the original Tintin comics??

I’m reading land of black gold right now, and it’s very good. I only got a few more to read. I can’t wait to read cigars of the pharaoh.

Where do I find the original (black&white) version of cigars of pharaoh. Preferably free online. Please reply

Doesn't Rastapopulous sit next to Tintin at the dinner in Tintin in America?

Haaah the allure and charm of the earlier editions of Tintin - for some reason the black and white and less "perfect" forms and graphic narrative seem to appeal more to me, nowadays, maybe for its naive and cartoony approach. Couldn't help noticing the atrocious lettering in the fac-simile version. If you read french there are annotated versions of both books that deserve attention.

At 4:34, when you were confused about Tintin meeting Rastapopoulos for the first time, Rastapopoulos appears in the Tintin in America at page 57 (Color version) sitting next to Mary Pikefort. Although sources say it is a prototype of Rastapopoulos, Tintin must be actually referencing meeting him over there on here. Here is the source: www.tintin.com/en/characters/rastapopoulos

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This was the first Tintin comic I ever bought. Racist to the max but still so much fun.

. How about checking out some horror anthology books like : skywald's horror magazine reprints , Or some of the comic version of classic horror monsters , like frankenstien , the were wolf or Zombies . Also have ever thought of reviewing any Disney comics like the return of Snow White and seven drwafs . Just some thoughts . If you want to know more about skywald fizzfop1 has done video history of that publishing company and I reviewed one of skywald horror books check out my RU-vid channel bucky749 as I have done several comic reviews . Have a nice day .

I DID IT AGAIN WTF, the second time i write a comment only to delete it

WTF how much did you pay for each one of them

Hahaha, your copy of Cigars looks even worse than mine. Most confusion in regards to the text are due to bad or inaccurate translations. And in consequent reprints they keep changing the translations. To know the “true” text one should read the first printing of the French edition, or even the Petit Vingtieme newspaper where it was first published. My Dutch translation of the encounter of Tintin with Rastapopoulos reads: He’s not the first enemy I made. Your English translation “it’s not the first time we met” makes no sense. But a lot of Cigars of the Pharao makes no sense. It’s the most surrealistic Tintin book of them all. And to some people also the best.