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The Adventures of Tintin

edited 2026-06-19

A complete reading and viewing order for The Adventures of Tintin, covering all 24 Hergé comic albums (including the posthumously published Alph-Art), three seasons of the 1991 Ellipse-Nelvana animated series, and the 2011 Steven Spielberg motion-capture film. Includes notes on the four two-part pairs that must be read consecutively.

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01COMIC
1930The debut album, published in 1930, sending young reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy on an adventure to the Soviet Union on assignment for th…
02COMIC
1931The second album, published in 1931, following Tintin and Snowy on a journey to the Belgian Congo, where they encounter wild animals and bec…
03COMIC
1932Published in 1932, this album takes Tintin and Snowy to the United States, where Tintin investigates organized crime in Chicago and encounte…
04COMIC
1934Published in 1934, this album introduces Tintin to the world of international drug smuggling when an archaeological expedition in Egypt lead…
05COMIC
1936Published in 1936, this album continues directly from Cigars of the Pharaoh, sending Tintin to Shanghai and the international settlements of…
06COMIC
1937Published in 1937, this album begins with the theft of an Arumbaya tribal fetish from a museum and takes Tintin to a fictional South America…
07COMIC
1938Published in 1938, this album sends Tintin to Scotland in pursuit of a gang of counterfeiters who have set up their printing operation on a…
08COMIC
1939Published in 1939, this album introduces the fictional Balkan kingdom of Syldavia, where Tintin uncovers a plot by the rival nation of Bordu…
09COMIC
1941Published in 1941, this album is notable as the first appearance of Captain Haddock, who becomes Tintin's closest companion and one of the m…
10COMIC
1942Published in 1942, this album sends Tintin and Captain Haddock on a scientific race to the Arctic after a meteorite carrying a mysterious ne…
11COMIC
1943Published in 1943, this album begins when Tintin purchases a model ship called The Unicorn and is immediately targeted by two men desperate…
12COMIC
1944Published in 1944, this album continues directly from The Secret of the Unicorn as Tintin, Captain Haddock, and the newly introduced Profess…
13COMIC
1948Published in 1948, this album opens with a rash of mysterious illnesses striking the seven European members of a scientific expedition that…
14COMIC
1949Published in 1949, this album concludes the story begun in The Seven Crystal Balls as Tintin and Haddock travel to Peru to rescue Professor…
15COMIC
1950Published in 1950, this album sends Tintin to British-mandated Palestine (the fictional location is loosely based on it) during a period of…
16COMIC
1953Published in 1953, this album marks a dramatic shift in the series as Tintin and Captain Haddock join Professor Calculus at a secret nuclear…
17COMIC
1954Published in 1954, this album continues directly from Destination Moon as Tintin, Haddock, Calculus, and Thomson and Thompson land on and ex…
18COMIC
1956Published in 1956, this album centres on the kidnapping of Professor Calculus by rival Cold War powers — the fictional Syldavia and Borduria…
19COMIC
1958Published in 1958, this album brings together a large cast of characters from previous Tintin adventures as Tintin and Haddock uncover a mod…
20COMIC
1960Published in 1960, this album is a departure from the series' typical action-adventure plots: Tintin journeys to the Himalayas after dreamin…
21COMIC
1963Published in 1963, this album is an anomaly in the series — the entire story takes place at Marlinspike Hall with no travel, no villain, and…
22COMIC
1968Published in 1968, this album begins when Tintin and his friends are diverted to a private island by the eccentric billionaire Laszlo Carrei…
23COMIC
1976Published in 1976, this album — the last completed Tintin adventure — returns to the fictional South American republic of San Theodoros from…
24COMIC
1986Published posthumously in 1986, three years after Hergé's death in 1983, this twenty-fourth and final album was left unfinished and exists a…