7. The Black Island (1937–1938)
The Black Island (French: L'Île Noire) is the seventh of The Adventures of Tintin. It was first published in the newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième in the late 1930s and subsequently in a black-and-white album. Two more versions of the story were published in 1943 and 1966.
While walking in the countryside
Tintin sees a plane making an emergency landing, and goes to help, but
as he comes near he is shot by the pilot. Tintin recovers at a hospital
where police detectives Thomson and
Thompson inform him that a similar plane has crashed in a field in
Sussex, England. Tintin decides to investigate for himself.
Tintin takes the train to the coast in order to board the ferry to England. During the journey he is framed
for the assault and theft of a fellow passenger (who is in fact part of
the mysterious criminal gang Tintin has inadvertently stumbled upon).
Thompson and Thomson try to capture Tintin, but he easily escapes by
handcuffing them to each other while they are asleep.
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