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The Blue Lotus: Petit Vingtième Cover Mystery Scene?

#1 · Posted: 9 Jan 2010 05:13

While The Blue Lotus was first being published in Le Petit Vingtième, there was an issue with a cover image of Tintin without a shirt, about to be executed.

But the thing is that this scene is nowhere anywhere in the actual story, can anyone explain that?

mct16
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#2 · Posted: 10 Jan 2010 13:14

It was probably just a misleading scene to make the reader believe that Tintin's doom was approaching when no such scene happened in the story. It is rather unusual because most of the covers of Le Petit Vingtième are based on scenes in the actual stories.

Marvel comics did a lot of that in the 1960s and 70s: cover scenes that never actually occurred in the comic itself. I have one in which the Thing lashes out at Mister Fantastic, accusing him of attempted murder, whereas in the actual story they simply argue and go their separate ways.

The cover is of Le Petit Vingtème, issue 17, dated 25th of April 1935. A lot of Petit Vingtièmes are available for sale on ebay for France.
If you go there and search for Petit Vingtème 17 1935 it might turn up some day.

mct16
Member

#3 · Posted: 22 Mar 2010 21:23

Here is the cover as shown on ebay.fr. The caption reads: "The execution will take place at dawn". Brrrrrrr!

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