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Are there any major differences between 'Tintin au Congo' current French colour edition and 'Tintin au Congo' facsimile 1940's French colour edition, apart from the price and the more muted colours on the cover of the facsimile ?

Sorry if I've misunderstood-I don;t think I have(!)

There are some differences between the colour Congo book and the previous one. The ones I can think of are when Tintin is teaching the schoolchildren a geography lesson in the facsimile; this was changed to a maths lesson, because the original was about the 'motherland' of Belgium and a bit un-PC.
The bit where he originally blows the rhino up is changed to a more realistic scenario in which the rhino gets Tintin's gun caught round its nose whilst Tintin is sleeping. The goes gets set off and the rhino runs away in fear.

Big Ren
Are there any major differences between 'Tintin au Congo' current French colour edition and 'Tintin au Congo' facsimile 1940's French colour edition, apart from the price and the more muted colours on the cover of the facsimile ?

OJG
There are some differences between the colour Congo book and the previous one. The ones I can think of are when Tintin is teaching the schoolchildren a geography lesson in the facsimile; this was changed to a maths lesson, because the original was about the 'motherland' of Belgium and a bit un-PC.

No. The current color edition is the same as the older color edition. The geography lesson was in the Black and White original, but was changed to a math lesson when the album was remade in 1946.

OJG
The bit where he originally blows the rhino up is changed to a more realistic scenario in which the rhino gets Tintin's gun caught round its nose whilst Tintin is sleeping. The goes gets set off and the rhino runs away in fear.

That is only in the Scandinavia editions (whcih I have). In the French color and most other color editions Tintin still blows the rhino to pieces.

-Gustav

The Thompsons appear retroactively on page 1 of the colour version, replacing two porters. Historically, they did not appear until Cigars of the Pharaoh. Many of Snowy's best lines were also cut to improve the dialogue for the colour version.