Prisoners of the Sun

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Prisoners of the Sun
© Hergé / Tintinimaginatio

Original French title

Le Temple du Soleil

Plot

Tintin and Captain Haddock reach Peru ahead of the ship carrying the kidnapped Professor Calculus, but his captors still get him ashore. Zorrino, a Quechua boy Tintin defends from bullies, knows where the kidnappers have gone. He guides Tintin and Haddock over the Andes and through the jungle to a hidden temple where Incas still live. The Incas mean to put Calculus to death for wearing their sacred bracelet.

Publication history

First published in Tintin between 19 December 1946 and 22 April 1948. Published in book form in 1949 with some changes.

English editions

  • 1990 - Mammoth (London). Colour. 62p. Paperback. ISBN: 0749704594.

Trivia

  1. On page 1 frame 1 (A1), the map of Peru is incomplete. The northern part of Peru is shown as part of Ecuador. Ecuador had made claims to this part of Peru, and the map Hergé used for reference must have been one published by Ecuador, not Peru. [EC]
  2. On page 15, Tintin's jump defies the laws of physics: if you jump off of a moving object, you will keep on moving forward until you land. Jumping off the moving train from where he was, Tintin should have landed farther--and crashed into the mountain. [EC]
  3. Pages 58 and 59 show a northern hemisphere solar eclipse instead of a southern hemisphere eclipse. The eclipse shown in the Tintin magazine version of the story is correct. [EC]

Characters

Title in other languages

  • Arabic - Tantan fi nabad al-shams
  • Basque - Eguzkiaren tenplua
  • Bengali - Suryadeber Bandi
  • Breton - Prizonidi an heol
  • Catalan - El temple del sol
  • Chinese - China: 太陽的囚徒 (Taiyang de qiutu) / Hong Kong and Taiwan: 太陽神的囚徒 (Taiyangshen de qiutu)
  • Danish - Soltemplet
  • Dutch - De Zonnetempel
  • Farsi/Persian - Ma'badi khurshid
  • Finnish - Auringon temppeli
  • Galician - O templo do sol
  • German - Der Sonnentempel
  • Greek - O naos tou iliou
  • Hebrew - A'sirei haShemesh
  • Hungarian - A Naptemplom
  • Icelandic - Fangarnir í Sólhofinu
  • Indonesian - Tawanan Dewa Matahari [Indira edition] / Di Kuil Matahari [Gramedia edition]
  • Italian - Il tempio del sole
  • Japanese - 太陽の神殿 Taiyou no shinden
  • Norwegian - Soltemplet
  • Portuguese - O templo do Sol
  • Provençal - Lou tèmple dóu soulèu
  • Russian - Hram solntsa
  • Serbo-Croatian - Hram sunca
  • Sinhalese - Hiru dewole Sirakaruwo
  • Spanish - El templo del sol
  • Swedish - Solens tempel del 2
  • Turkish - Günes mabedi
  • Vietnamese - Tù nhân cùa Thán mât tròi

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Credits

Originally created by Jesper Jühne. Revised and maintained by Irene Mar.

Characters list compiled by Irene Mar.

Contributors and sources: Etienne Chevalier, Syaiful Bahri, Chikahiro Masami, Kirill Polsatchev, Peter Szabo, Syaiful Bahri, BP = Tintin and the world of Hergé by Benoît Peeters. London: Methuen, 1989.

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