Tintin in America

Tintin in America (originally Tintin en Amérique) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero.

Tintin in America is the third in the series. The first strip was published in "Le Petit Vingtième" on September 3, 1931.

It was published in a black and white album in 1932. The album was reworked and published in color in 1945; this version was shortened to a standard 62-page format. The first American edition was issued in 1973. For this occasion many of the black characters were re-drawn to make their race white or ambiguous.

The storyline

The plot concerns Tintin fighting gangsters from Chicago to the Wild West. In this story Tintin meets Al Capone; this is the only case of a real person appearing as character in a Tintin story.

It is the earliest Tintin album readily available in English translation; the two previous ones can be found, but not easily.