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How could you possibly get tired of Tintin?

jockosjungle
I agree with Germ, I'd never even lend my Tintin books as I know people wouldn't take care of them as well as me.

The only Tintin books I lend out to people are the old, crappy Swedish translations, because they are in a bad enough condition as is.

-Gustav

I dont even lend out my crappy issues...

I don't lend mine out either ... I like them to stay in as good a condition as possible, so they don't tend to be lent out. I don't mind as much with novels (even though I like them to stay looking smart on my shelves), but Tintin doesn't even get considered to be lent out. And no, I would never sell mine either.

Also, even though my paperbacks are falling apart, I wouldn't even want to get replacement copies - they're the issues I discovered Hergé's world 'proper' through, and so I would never want to replace them.

Yes my original paperbacks are falling to pieces but like Richard they are my very first Tintin adventures

Rik

I feel the same way-I would never replace them or trade them on eBay. I'll never get tired of Tintin or Herge. In a country like the USA (where I live), where comic books are now either equated with porn manga or x-rated action tearapart comics with an intellectual factor of -3, I'm still proud to say I know a comic series that's intelligent and that still gives every audience something to appreciate. In my school, I'm the highest-marked reader, but I still mark The Blue Lotus, The Calculus Affair, and Tintin in Tibet as my three top favorite all-time personal reads-with no regrets!

Ha! Let's see... Got tired of my Hardy Boys books and so I sold all of those when I was a teenager -- then bought about a dozen of them at a used bookstore a couple of years ago out of nostalgia. Also sold off my Three Investigators and Danny Dunn books and ended up doing the same (tracking some down recently at a used book store). So unless it was a matter of life and death, my Tintin books are going to be on my shelf forever!

When I get tired of reading Tintin (ie. when I've just read them all), I put them in a corner somewhere and read them all in a few months.

Yeah, the books could become really rare some time.
(like the english version of tintin in the congo.

Never! I would pass them on to my children, who would pass them on to my grandchildren, etc...