Just a little history if you do not mind ... The Seven Crystal Balls reprent the theme of the curse found in Cigars of the Pharaoh, and the theme of the fantastic, developed at the beginning of The Shooting Star . The 7 crystal balls that appear in daily strips in Le Soir from December 16, 1943, beginning with a series of warnings. Then come the enigmatic attacks which plunge the victims into a deep lethargy. The mystery will be at its peak when the scene takes place in the villa of Professor Bergamotte. This villa, Hergé took a long time to find it. One day, his collaborator Edgar Pierre Jacobs found a house which brought together the characteristics sought by Hergé. The two friends made it a fairly accurate sketch. Their work completed, upon leaving, they saw the gray car arrived. It was Nazi, the house was requisitioned by the Occupation.
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 7 crystal balls were therefore interrupted on page 50 of the current album. On September 26, 1946, in the weekly Tintin, after two years of interruption, the story of the 7 crystal balls resumes where it left off. In the first release of the brand new weekly, an insert summarizes past events for readers. Soon, the first part ends and is followed by the Sun Temple. Over the weeks, the bottom of the weekly pages also educated readers of the Andes and the Incas.
Later, it was this fantastic adventure that will be chosen to be brought to the big screen.
