Twenty four albums, one of them unfinished, and the film adapted three of them out of order.
Read the albums, but not in publication order. The first two are the reason people give up.
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The first two albums, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo, are crude, badly drawn and in the Congo's case openly racist. Hergé himself disowned the first and regretted the second. Starting there gives a completely false impression of what the books are.
From The Blue Lotus onward the drawing, the plotting and the research all improve sharply, and later books refer back to earlier ones. The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure are a two parter, as are Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon.
Thirty nine episodes and the closest thing to the books on screen. Most albums get two episodes. If you would rather watch than read, watch this.
Then what? Spielberg's 2011 film blends three albums into one story, so it is not a straight adaptation of any of them. The 1950s and 60s versions are curiosities. The unfinished final album, Tintin and Alph-Art, is published as Hergé left it: sketches and notes, with no ending.
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