First adventures (1929-1934) Most likely, the fate of the first adventure of Tintin was decided by the abbot Wallez, fervent anti-communist: it is not just to entertain youth, but to show the alleged dangers of communism. Based on a book quite popular at the time denouncing these dangers, Moscou sans voiles (Moscow without veils, “1928) by Joseph Douillet, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets reporter tells the raid, and accompanied by his faithful dog, the fox terrier Snowy, in Soviet Russia, insisting constantly on the evils of the communist regime. Herge’s drawing is still fairly rudimentary, and clearly shows the influence of American cartoonists such as George McManus. The cartoon was a huge success among the Belgian public: he finished published in May 1930, was staged in Brussels North Station Tintin’s return to Belgium.The character, represented by a boy scout of fifteen, he was greeted by a real crowd. With this popularity, the year after their adventures began to appear also in France, a Catholic weekly, Vaillants Coeurs. That same year, other characters of Herg , Quick et Flupke, made their appearance in the pages of Le Petit Vingtieme. The second adventure of Tintin was played out in the Belgian Congo, and is an outspoken advocacy of the benefits of colonialism, with some racist overtones. Dominated by a paternalistic discourse about colonial rule, in force in Belgian society of the time. Some of the more controversial aspects of the album were eliminated in later ions.However, the comic remains controversial, as evidenced by the controversy caused by its recent reissue in the UK, in 2007. At the end of the adventure of Tintin in the Congo is discovered that a group of Chicago gangsters, led by Al Capone, plans to take over the diamond business in Congo, already anticipating what would be the third of the adventures of the reporter, Tintin in America. Indeed, in the following story, which began publication in September 1931 in the pages of Le Petit Vingtieme, the young reporter and his trusty fox terrier visit the United States, where the protagonist not only manages to thwart criminals Capone but who has time to make a visit to the red, long idealized by Herg since he was a Boy Scout.For the first time, the character of Tintin takes decisive match for the rights of an oppressed minority, strongly denouncing the abuse of being given to the Indians in the United States. In the next episode of his adventures, Cigars of the Pharaoh originally entitled “The Adventures of Tintin in the Orient”, Tintin begins a journey that will lead to new exotic settings: Egypt, India and, later, in the second part of the album, The Blue Lotus, China. This time the reporter is not traveling as an envoy of his newspaper, Le Petit Vigti me, but for pleasure. In Cigars of the Pharaoh’s officers Thomson and Thompson (Dupond et Dupont, in the original) make their first appearance. Takes center stage the figure of the evil millionaire Rastapopoulos, who had already had a brief appearance in Tintin in America. With respect to previous adventures, the story has been considerably enriched.The ion as independent album of Cigars of the Pharaoh, in 1934, was provided by the publisher Casterman, which then would be responsible for publishing the adventures of the character (the first three volumes had been published by ions du Petit Vingtieme).