The 1930 first cover appearance of Tintin, from artist Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin Vol. 1: Tintin In The Land Of The Soviets, which sold for US$1,2mil. Photo: AFP, courtesy of Heritage Auctions (HA.com)
An original drawing used for the first published Tintin cover was sold at auction recent in Dallas, the United States for US$1.12mil (RM4.6mil), the Heritage Auctions house revealed. The identities of seller and buyer have not been released.
The illustration, by Tintin creator Herge (the pseudonym of Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi), shows the plucky young reporter sitting on a tree stump carving a makeshift propeller for his plane after the original was damaged in a rough landing somewhere in the Soviet Union. His faithful dog Snowy (Milou in the original French) sits and watches, bandaged from tail to nose.
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