In Europe, scientists are still suffering from a mysterious illness. Tintin and Haddock pursue the Quichua Indian who kidnapped their friend. They know that he faces a very grave danger. The diversity of places and landscapes (sea, jungle, mountain, snow) offers a great pleasure to drive. And what about the suspense, variety of actions and plot twists that demonstrate once again the incredible talent of Hergé. He takes us on the trail of the Incas, mixing humor and serious subjects easily overflowing (Captain Haddock is still precious gossip from this point of view) and the final book, a great album in the series.
In September 1944, Brussels is released and all the journalists who had collaborated on writing a diary during the Occupation were banned from publication. Although he had never intervened politically in Le Soir, Hergé was touched by this. The Temple of the Sun was therefore interrupted on page 50 of the current album. On September 26, 1946, in the weekly Tintin, after two years of interruption, the story picks up where it left off. In the first release of the brand new weekly, an insert summarizes past events for readers. Over the weeks, the bottom of the weekly Tintin pages also educated on the Andes and the Incas.