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Crab with the Golden Claws is the only book in the series to feature four beautiful full-page drawings.

Some Tintin readers won't know that many of the earlier, black and white editions of the Tintin adventures also featured full-page drawings. In fact, the first eight stories had four pictures each!

It occurs to me that there's no reason (that I can see) why they shouldn't reinstate all these full-page drawings (except perhaps Cigars and Black Island).

Am I crazy?

But the b&w books are all still available with the colour plates (the latest English editions have them too), and it'd be bonkers to add them to the colour books since they were never meant to be there in the first place. So you're crazy, I'm afraid ;-)

Incidentally, there is an alternate colour plate for Lotus which looks like the cover to this book (it's used in my French and English facsimiles). It appears to have replaced the one of the night time rickshaw ride.

Very true. I suppose I'm thinking of the man-in-the-street Tintin reader,...he/she will most likely be buying the more readily available colour editions. They'll be missing out, right?


I wonder why? The night-time picture has an interesting kind of 'mood' to it. The contrast created by the ring of golden light from the street lamp is very effective.