One of my favorite

Released in 1939 in black and white in color and redone in 1947, Ottokar's Sceptre, certainly one of my great favorite of Tintin and incidentally one of my very first (my first was Tintin And The Picaros, but I had, and just after all, Tintin In Tibet, The Ottokar Sceptre and The Blue Lotus, I was a child), is the eighth album of the series, and the first to happen in a small country of imaginary Balkans, Ruritania. Subsequently, two more albums (Destination Moon, The Calculus Affair) it will pass. Its richly comic cover its plot, I have always loved this album that has the feature to provide three pages, beautiful, in brochure form to discover Syldavia, brochure read by Tintin during his flight, in album.

Superbly designed, this royal conspiracy story is a success more to the series, an album very espionage 'full of humor (Syldavian specialty controlled Tintin in the "Klow" ... Snowy discovering a giant dinosaur bones at the museum Natural History of Klow ...) and above all twists. First album featuring the cult and enervating Bianca Castafiore, which will become a recurring (she appeared in no less than four other albums, if not even 5), Ottokar's Sceptre, the last before the appearance of Captain Haddock in the series (following volume) is one more success!