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Tintin in the Congo: missing color plates from b/w facsimile?

Pharaoh
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#1 · Posted: 3 Jun 2008 05:00
According to this page, there were 4 coloured plates in the original 1931 book. Why are they missing from the English Fac-Simile of 2002 which had that same cover?
http://www.free-tintin.net/english/nsurb.htm
Tintinrulz
Member
#2 · Posted: 3 Jun 2008 09:30
Those 4 coloured plates look like they're from the 1946 revision of Tintin in the Congo, not the original 1931 book. That's my guess anyway.
Harrock n roll
Moderator
#3 · Posted: 11 Jun 2008 10:51
I don't believe the colour plates were in the original 1931 book. I think they were added to the later (1937?) Casterman republishing of the black and white album.

The colour plates are present in the 2004 English facsimile, with the Ford model-T cover.
calculite
Member
#4 · Posted: 20 Dec 2011 20:46
Harrock n roll:
I think they were added to the later (1937?) Casterman republishing of the black and white album.

What exactly are these color plates?
snowybella
Member
#5 · Posted: 4 Oct 2017 09:46
calculite:
What exactly are these color plates?

Although I know that this message was posted a looooong time ago, I'll answer it for future readers - the colour plates are large, one-page pictures showing a scene from the adventure, like the ones (Haddock, Tintin and Snowy in the desert, for example) we see in The Crab with the Golden Claws.

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