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Tintin in America (The Adventures of Tintin) | 
 enlarge | Author: Herge
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 44016
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 62
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 8.5 x 0
ISBN: 0316358525
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.59493
EAN: 9780316358521
ASIN: 0316358525
Publication Date: November 30, 1979
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Condition: Good Cover has heavy wear. Name penciled inside front. No other writing and no tears.
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The boy hero comes to the United States and triumphs over gangsters in Chicago of the 1930's and the pitfalls of the wild West.
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 Graphic SF Reader September 3, 2007
Blue Tyson
Tintin ends up in yankeeland, and as soon as he arrives, runs afoul of your garden variety 1930s Chicago gangsters. They want to get rid of him, for sure.
Of course, he has to end up in the Wild West, where multiple tries to have him lynched don't work, let alone the dog. This allows him to get to the bottom of the plot.
 Probably Tintin's weakest book July 15, 2007
Andres C. Salama (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Tintin's third album, originally published in 1931, is probable the weakest in the series. The young reporter goes to an America that looks like the standard Amerika of the European left: set in Chicago and the American West, the country is a commercialized hell populated by gangsters (whose leader is Al Capone himself, the only time a real person appeared in the whole series), greedy capitalists, uncultured rednecks and exploited redskins. As in the early albums, Tintin seems to escape from sure death at almost every page. Still, for those who accuse early Tintin books of being extremely right wing, it's interesting to see in page 29 how the expropriation of Indian lands for the exploration of oil is denounced. Also, in page 41 there is a very amusing satire of proto - radical environmentalism, as an old lady that is a member of an animal protection organization protests a mountain lion attacking a deer.
 I love Tintin May 13, 2007
K. Ferguson
Huge childhood fan of these books - they're even more comical when I read them now.
Dumb, camp or fun? April 4, 2007
Briony Coote (Lower Hutt, New Zealand)
When I read this Tintin as a child I thought it was pretty dumb, especially (ARRGH!) that Wild Western-style lynching. Surely they didn't do things like that in America in the 1930s. Only the poor Negroes got lynched by that time.
Looking back at the book I found it more enjoyable. The lynching still aggravates me but it gets hilarious when the first man fails to lynch Tintin twice and they fall over themselves to do it. The plot gets silly and contrived in places but it seems to have an appealing camp quality. And I really love the scene when Tintin is rescued in the nick of time from being run over by the train. That is my favourite scene from that book.
However I like the Nelvana adaptation much better than the original book. The plotting is much tighter, focussing on the gangsters. Much of the silliness has been cut out. And I am very glad they deleted the Blackfeet tribe and (thank goodness!) the lynching.
Weak early work. February 27, 2007
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Herge, Tintin in America (Methuen, 1932)
The first of the canonical Tintin works (the third written; the other two, out of print for decades, are finally being brought back into print in 2007), Tintin in America has served since the forties as an introduction to Tintin and Snowy for generations of fans. It's an odd little volume, not as smooth nor as funny as the later works got, and it still contains some pretty nasty stereotypes (the reason those first two adventures have been out of print for so long) about ethnic minorities as part of the background humor. If you're a Tintin completist, obviously, you'll need a copy of this one, if you've never read it; otherwise, I'd suggest starting with one of the later adventures and coming back to this one once you're already a fan. ***
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