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Hello there!
I am a huge fan of Tintin and have all the 3 in 1 volumes.
In the old 3 in 1 volumes the end-pages looked like this:

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I know there is another set of these which are in the large hardcover albums with different characters and if someone could take a photo and/or scan these it would be greatly appreciated by myself.
Thank-you everyone :)

Moderator Note: Hi, and welcome to the forums. We have had to remove the links you posted as they led to a site which was distributing them as down-loadable desktop images, which is not allowed by the rules here.
However, the images were the standard “gallery” of pictures in frames on the blue striped wallpaper, which has actually been the standard endpapers in the books, both standard hard-backs and 3-in-1 for many years.
Some of the facsimiles of older books may have a dark blue set of end-papers, with outline drawings of characters; if we can find a way to display these without a copyright problem, we shall try to do so!

The Tintinologist Team

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Moderator Note: See above!

Nestor24

If you can get to the Tintin Shop in Covent Garden or a decent bookshop selling the colour facsimiles you could see the end pages for yourself.

mat

Hi Nestor24.

I'm wondering if, by the "old 3-in-1 volumes" , you're actually meaning the ones published under some sort of exclusive deal with the bookshop/newsagent/stationers chain WH Smith, back in the 1980s (I think). I have one of these, which oddly collates Flight 714, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure into a single A5 size hardback volume, and rather than having the different striped picture gallery endpapers for front and back, like the proper hardbacks, it just has the same front endpapers repeated at the back. I'm not sure if this bit of incompetence or cheapskatery was common to other 3-in-one volumes produced back then, and I'm not sure if that's what you're on about anyway, but if it is, I can see why you'd be keen to see the other picture-gallery endpaper design that's meant to go in the back.

If that is what you meant, I'd adapt Robbo's advice to go to a bookshop and have a look in any proper or current hardback edition. Or you could try a public library, many of which have a few hardback Tintin books.