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I think this will be the original black and white Tintin.

The modern colored Tintin we see was made after WW2 and drastically rehabilitated Tintin's reputation.

For example - https://sauvikbiswas.com/2014/11/18/tintin-in-america-the-bl...

I love reading Tintin, but being honest about it's origins and baggage is important as well. Highly recommend reading "Tintin: The Complete Companion" as well.

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Looks like it will be "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets", which https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Land_of_the_Sovi... says "is the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin" and "it was the only completed Tintin story that Hergé did not reproduce in colour" due to Hegré's "embarrassment at the crudeness of the work."

As much as I love Tintin, gotta agree with Hergé here. Although Congo and America aren't that much better.

Every Tintin upto "Land of Black Gold" had a black-and-white version written before the war. They did not age well, and if you read them you can understand why Hergé had a hard time in the 1945-1950 period.

IIRC there were also plenty of changes in later editions that didn't relate to controversies (or to colourisation): for example radio sets were made more up-to-date.

Yep! BW Tintin was already very dated by the 1950s.

Really shows how much progress (positive and negative) happened in just 20-30 years.

I'd also mention that Tom McCarthy's "Tintin and The Secret of Literature" completely changed the way in which I viewed the series - genuinely exciting stuff.

Never read that before! Thanks for the rec!

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