COKE EN STOCK was the first Tintin dealing with the shameful concept of slavery.

It is sought after for it final image on page 62, in which the abundance of characters and actions compares to the scene in L'Affaire Tournesol when the Lancia speeds through the market, sending cows, sausage, vegetables and many other things all over the place. The issue with Coke en Stock was the fragility of its Black Front Cover, susceptible to fading.

The Red Sea Sharks (French: Coke en stock) is the nineteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comic series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was initially serialised weekly in Belgium's Tintin magazine from October 1956 to January 1958 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1958. The narrative follows the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and his friend Captain Haddock as they travel to the fictional Middle Eastern kingdom of Khemed with the intention of aiding the Emir Ben Kalish Ezab in regaining control after a coup d'état by his enemies, who are financed by slave traders led by Tintin's old nemesis Rastapopoulos.
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