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 Bart Perdieus
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| General Description : | The Black Island (French: L'Île Noire) is the seventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le XXe Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from April to November 1937. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who travel to Great Britain, where Tintin is framed for a theft, hunted by detectives Thomson and Thompson, and is on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters. The Black Island was a commercial success and was published in book form by Casterman shortly after its conclusion. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with King Ottokar's Sceptre, while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. In 1943, The Black Island was coloured and re-drawn in Hergé's distinctive ligne-claire style for republication. In the mid-1960s, Hergé's British publishers requested a major revision of the story, for which he sent his assistant Bob de Moor to Britain on a research trip; on his return, Studio Hergé produced a revised, third edition of the story, serialised in Tintin magazine. The Black Island introduces the recurring villain Doctor Müller, and has been widely cited as one of the most popular installments in the series. |
| Face value | 0,46 Euro |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 3690 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | BE 2344g |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier BE 3625 Stanley Gibbons BE 4073 Belgium BE 3642 WADP Numbering System - WNS BE042.07 Unificato BE 3634 |
| Series | Hergé 1907-2007 |
| Stamp colour | multicolour |
| Stamp use | Mini-sheet stamp |
| Print run | 824.804 |
| Issue date | 19/05/2007 |
| Designer | Hergé |
| Print technique | Offset lithography |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 48.75 mm |
| Width | 38.15 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
