Land of Black Gold: Difference between revisions

The story began serialisation in ''Tintin'' magazine from 16 September 1948, before beginning its serialisation in the French edition of the magazine from 28 October 1948.{{sfn|Lofficier|Lofficier|2002|p=59}} Rather than continuing at the point where he had previously left off, Hergé restarted the story from scratch.{{Sfn|Farr|2001|p=127}} He nevertheless made revisions to the early part of the story, namely by reworking the characters of Captain Haddock (who now appears in a new scene on page 3) and Professor Calculus, as well as the location of Marlinspike Hall, into the narrative, all of which were elements that had been introduced to the ''Adventures of Tintin'' during the intervening eight years.{{Sfn|Farr|2001|p=127}} Other alterations include new scenes of Tintin making a [[divining rod]], Tintin assumingdisguising thehimself guise ofas one of Müller's henchmen, and a restructuring of the Thompsons' humorous antics while driving a [[Jeep]] (a [[Peugeot 201]] in the original version) prior to their reunion with Tintin; the scene in which they fall asleep at the wheel and crash into a [[mosque]], for instance, originally took place without Tintin's presence.{{sfn|Lofficier|Lofficier|2002|p=61}} Hergé was contractually obliged to produce two pages of comic for each issue, and in the previous adventure, ''Prisoners of the Sun'', had fulfilled this by producing two pages of new Tintin stories each week. Seeking to limit his workload, he would only produce one page of ''Land of Black Gold'' per issue, with the other page being filled by a re-serialisation of old stories from his ''[[Jo, Zette and Jocko]]'' series.{{Sfnm|1a1=Assouline|1y=2009|1p=137|2a1=Peeters|2y=2012|2p=207}}