Not until the end of the war and the creation of Tintin for the story is resumed in a second version. On 6 September 1948, Tintin in the Land of Black Gold is resumed. But Hergé had to take into account several new elements arising during other albums: Haddock, Tournesol and the castle of Moulinsart. So this is what explains the appearance of Captain on page 3 and then returning to page 54. To justify this quasi absence, Hergé Haddock was talking to him. The character tries on his return, to explain its late appearance (a bit messy this). But the chase against Dr. Müller will prevent him from talking. When he finally has the opportunity to express themselves, a joke Abdallah makes him angry and definitively closes the explanations he would give (this time, a thousand portholes! It's over, finished well!). Through this message, Hergé meant his readers that there was nothing to understand.
In 1969, encouraged by his English publisher who had already led to redraw The Black Island Hergé made changes to the album. It was for the publisher to remove outdated items. Indeed, in the first two versions, there was talk of the struggle of Jewish organizations against the British occupiers before Israel's independence. In the third version, is the struggle between Ben Kalish Ezab and Bab El Ehr is in the background. Besides all these changes, the BD is marked by the return of Dr. Müller (The Black Island), who has been renamed in Professor Smith, and the reunion with Oliveira da Figueira (Cigars of the Pharaoh). But there especially the appearance of the Emir Ben Kalish Ezab and his son Abdullah (Hergé was inspired by the portrait of Faisal II to create it) that reappear later ...
