The Adventures of Tintin: Hergé and Hergé's Seven Crystal Balls

Amazon Customer: Engaging story and beautiful illustration my kids and I love reading together.

United Kingdom on Aug 01, 2023

HASANHASAN: This book is an greatest book I have ever read. It has a full mystery and thriller. I reccomend it for 10+ yr old .

India on May 04, 2023

Satyaki Ray: I love like to collect Tintin comics. Tintin is the best

India on Mar 23, 2023

Stephen Weisert: These books are so sturdy!!
I was afraid they were going to be like comic book paper, but they are strong and will last for a long time!

United States on Jan 23, 2023

Gina: Added to my grandsons collection, he loves tin tin.

Australia on Aug 06, 2022

Lekshmi: Very condition. Came very well packaged. I am a Tintin fan and enjoying reading all the books from time to time. I had lost some of my old ones, so as an adult was trying to complete my collection so that I can reread the books as an adult.

India on May 25, 2021

Eric: The Seven Crystal Balls is the beginning of the adventure continued in Prisoners Of The Sun. It is an excellent installment in the Tin Tin stories. Tin Tin was one of my earliest introductions to travel and adventure, as well as good cartoon artwork (as opposed to all the wierd super heroes in tights and odd jewelry). I daresay reading Tin Tin as a child was a formative experience, and I still enjoy them today.
However, if you're new to Tin Tin and Snowy, start collecting from the beginning with Tin Tin in Russia. It's a little different than the rest but will get you off on the right foot.

United States on Mar 31, 2015

Jinkyu: The "Seven Crystal Balls" is No. 1 in the Tintin series for an aura of fearful mystery: This is the one for those who like potions, witchcraft, curses, fireballs, and yes, mental tortures.

Attending a variety performance at a theater, Tintin and a newly countrified Captain Haddock watch a clairvoyant Indian women performing under a trance. She suddenly describes a vision of horror that has diverted her from her performance. What is going on with those seven explorers, including Tintin's old friend Professor Cantonneau, who have returned to Europe after exploring Inca tombs? They begin to fall into comas and experience visions of being tortured. Modern Europe, with its police and medical science, is incapable of dealing with the powers of a more primitive time. It takes someone greater, but Tintin is always around.

Professor Calculus is kidnapped after his friend Professor Tarragon, the last unaffected explorer, goes into a coma. This ensures that Captain Haddock and Tintin will be involved to the fullest. Also worked into the plot is General Alcazar, Tintin's old friend from San Theodoros, who he had stumbled on when trying to unravel a different mystery in "The...

United States on Jun 29, 2012

Carlos R. Garcia: The book was brand new, and the price was below face value. I only need
three more Tintin books to complete my collection. Too bad the author is gone and there will be no more.
These adventure stories are excellent. They were written at a pace of about one every year and a half (23 in 35 years), so they are logical, methodical
and well researched.
Since my order was for more than $25, I didn't even have to pay S & H. I
hope (and I will) complete my collection soon.
Carlos

United States on Jun 22, 2012

HMS Warspite: In the opening sequence of "The Seven Crystal Balls", Tintin travels by train to visit Captain Haddock at his new home of Marlinspike. An item in the paper notes the return from Peru of an archeological expedition, bearing the mummy of a Royal Inca. A fellow passenger remarks the likely existance of a deadly curse on those who disturb the mummy. Thus is the tone set for a chilling adventure.

Since this is a two-part adventure concluded in "Prisoners of the Sun", artist and author Herge takes his time setting up the story. We are treated to some humor as Captain Haddock plays the country squire, and more humor as he and Tintin visit the local music hall. The story properly gets underway when Tintin is consulted by the bumbling detectives Thompson and Thomson, who are investigating a series of mysterious attacks on the members of the Peru expedition.

Tintin and the detectives are unable to stop the attacks, which place the men in a coma. Tintin, the Captain, Professor Calculus, and the police all assemble at the home of the last healthy archeologist, there to guard him during a suitably dark and stormy night. They fail; an unknown assailant kidnaps Calculus into the...

United States on Aug 05, 2009