Everybody Congo
I have been a huge Tintin fan since I first saw a copy of Red Sea Sharks when I was around 8 or 9 years old. I have owned the 7 volume Methuen 3 in 1 hardback collection since the early 1990s. I have always been annoyed that is was not the complete adventures [though it was all the adventures available at that time].
In the mid 90s the first two Tintin stories were printed in large hardback; Tintin in the land of the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo. Unfortunately they never made it into a similar reduced size hardback edition similar to the 3 in 1 collection.
Until now that is. I am now the proud owner of an Egmont printed edition in the same format as the Methuen editions. Egmont have reprinted the whole series in the same size and have been smart enough to only include these two stories in one volume so that those of us that already have the other stories do not have to buy the whole lot again.
The warning on the wrapper illustrates how times have changed.
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