#19 in Comics

Prisoners of the Sun

Name: Prisoners of the Sun
Author: Hergé
ISBN: 9788426123282

Hergé

First published 1949

8.4

Score out of 1062 ratingsConfidence 30%: this much of the score is the readers’ own

Part of a seriesThe Adventures of TintinVolume 14 of 24

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“Prisoners of the Sun” is a sweeping Tintin adventure, a journey across the Andes and through the rain forest to a hidden Inca civilisation. Picking up where “The Seven Crystal Balls” left off, Tintin and Captain Haddock go after the kidnapped Professor Calculus. Some readers, coming back to it as adults, are troubled by what they see as the prejudices of its era, especially in how Tintin treats the local people.

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About the book

Prisoners of the Sun is the fourteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in the newly established Tintin magazine from September 1946 to April 1948. Completing an arc begun in The Seven Crystal Balls, the story tells of young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and friend Captain Haddock as they continue their efforts to rescue the kidnapped Professor Calculus by travelling through Andean villages, mountains, and rain forests, before finding a hidden Inca civilisation.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.1 across 62 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 30% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Comics average of 8.5. That is how 8.4 comes out.