Short description
This is the first of a collectable series. All in small hardcover format, the collection consists of eight books. Volume 1 contains the following books: The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo. Both of these early books are collectable for their controversy and are essential for any Tintin fan.
Long description
This title includes: Volume 1 - Tintin in the Land of the Soviets , Tintin in the Congo . The first volume features Tintin in the Congo , first published in book form in 1931 (in black & white only), Tintin in the Congo reflects the colonial attitudes of that period in its depiction of African people, which may cause offence to some readers. Herge himself admitted that he was influenced by the bourgeois, paternalistic stereotypes of the period.