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Tintin in Tibet: opening scene - where has Tintin been?

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#31 · Posted: 21 Aug 2006 14:39

Harrock n roll wrote: It was - evident from a page taken from the French Coeurs Vaillants, 9 April 1939. The spelling in the introductory text is different here - â€œVargÃ¨zeâ€ - but it mentions it being in the Haute Savoie region.

Interesting! This means that the Georges/VargÃ¨se-pun was invented long before Tintin in Tibet.

In this thread we've discussed the dropped first-panel from Tibet but [-snip-] shows a lot of other dropped first panels. I especially like the first strip from The Red Sea Sharks.

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aji411
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#32 · Posted: 5 Sep 2007 12:39

I think tintin in Switzerland

gianfrancogoria
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#33 · Posted: 23 Mar 2009 12:40

Interesting. Maybe VargÃ¨se could also simply be a joke with the typical names of Haute-Savoie most renowed ski-centers: MÃ¨geve, Saint-Gervais... VargÃ¨se could be Gervais (GervÃ¨se [sounds like jaarveezee]- VargÃ¨se [sounds vaarjeezee]), and z or s sound mostly the same in french.

gianfrancogoria
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#34 · Posted: 11 Dec 2012 10:38

But in 1952 HergÃ© was in the Italian Alps, in Varese, so from Varese to VarGese jiust add the "sound" of rg - hergÃ©. See: HergÃ© Mots et Jeux de Mots, p.222.

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