The Secret of the Unicorn
Original French title
Le Secret de la Licorne
Plot
Tintin buys a model ship at a Brussels flea market. Captain Haddock knows it at once: it is a model of the Unicorn, the ship his ancestor Sir Francis Haddock commanded. After Tintin refuses to sell it, thieves take it from his flat, but a small parchment from its mast stays behind. It is one of three left by Sir Francis, and together they point to where the pirate Red Rackham's treasure lies.
Publication history
First appeared in Le Soir between 11 June 1942 and 14 January 1943.
Published in book form in 1943.
English editions
- 1974 - Methuen (London). 62p. Colour. 30cm. Paperback. ISBN: 0416800203.
- 1990 - Mammoth (London). Translated by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner. 62p. Paperback. ISBN: 0749704624.
Trivia
Cameo: page 2, frame 14: Jacques van Melkebeke. [TT]
Characters
- Barnaby
- Bird Brothers (Max and G. Bird)
- Brutus
- Chester (Captain)
- Diego the Dreadful
- Fifi
- Finch (Mrs)
- Haddock, Archibald (Captain)
- Haddock, Francis
- Nestor
- Red Rackham
- Sakharine, Ivan Ivanovitch
- Silk, Aristides
- Snowy
- Thomson and Thompson
- Tintin
Title in other languages
- Afrikaans - Die Geheim van die Eenhoorn
- Arabic - Tantan wa-sirr al-Khartit
- Basque - Adarbakerraren sekretua
- Bengali - Bombete Jahaj
- Breton - Kevrin an unkorneg
- Catalan - El segret de L'Unicorn
- Chinese - China: 独角兽号的秘密 (Dujiaoshou hao de mimi) / Hong Kong and Taiwan: 獨角獸號的秘密 (Dujiaoshou hao de mimi)
- Czech - Tajemstvi Jednorozce
- Danish - Enhjørningen's hemmelighed
- Dutch - Het geheim van de Eenhoorn
- Farsi/Persian - Razi kashtiyi asbi shakhdar
- Finnish - Yksisarvisen salaisuus
- Galician - O segredo do Alicornio
- Gallo - La cutrie dla Licône
- German - Das Geheimnis der Einhorn
- Greek - To Mystiko tou Monokerou (To Mystirio tou Monokerou)
- Hebrew - Taaloumat hagad kerene
- Hungarian - Az egyszarvú titka [pre-2008 edition title] / Az Unikornis titka [2008 edition title.]
- Icelandic - Leyndardómur Einhyrningsins
- Indonesian - Rahasia kapal Unicorn [Indira edition title] / Rahasia Unicorn [Gramedia edition title]
- Italian - Il segreto del Liocorno
- Japanese - なぞのユニコーン号 Nazo no yunikon go / Nazo no Unicorn gou
- Malay - Rahsia Unicorn
- Norwegian - Enhjørningens Hemmelighet
- Polish - Tajemnica Jedonorozca
- Portuguese - O segredo do Licorne
- Russian - Tayna "Edinoroga"
- Slovak - Tajomstvo Jednoroza
- Spanish - El secreto del Unicornio
- Swedish - Enhörningens hemlighet del 1 / Enhörningens hemliget (?)
- Turkish - Tekboynuz'un esrari
- Vietnamese - Bi mât tâu Unicorn
- Welsh - Cyfrinach yr Uncorn
Next album: Red Rackham's Treasure
Credits
Maintained by Irene Mar.
Characters list compiled by Irene Mar and Etienne Chevalier.
Contributors and sources: Chikahiro Masami, Kirill Polsatchev, Peter Szabo, Syaiful Bahri, BP= Tintin and the world of Hergé by Benoît Peeters. London: Methuen, 1989; TT = Tintinologisk Tidsskrift
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