Tintin struggling with the networks of influence

This edition was published in 1941. The world is at war. The black and white drawing is of a rare brevity. The story is very interesting. It immerses us in the midst of arms trafficking, drugs, influences the appearance of Freemasonry.

Thompson and Thomson with their mustaches T for Dupont and Dupond D for the police are camped in scary ... then laugh. Rastapopulos, archetypal evil, arms dealer and drug use, also appeared. It will be all the bad shots in "Sharks" (slave trade), "Flight 714" (hostage taking), "Tintin and Alph-Art" (drug trafficking).

Tintin has, in this album, yet not taken, I believe, to the best of humanism that he will serve with passion thereafter.