THE LATE HERGE WAS EUROPE'S BEST KNOWN GRAPHIC ARTIST. DURING HIS LIFETIME HE SOLD OVER 100 MILLION COPIES OF THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

Tintin, a young reporter from Brussels, and his sidekick Milou, a small talking dog, would see to it that no injustice went unpunished, wither it was in Chicago, Delhi, Shanghai, Cairo, Belgium, the Caribbean or some imaginary countries.

The Pop Hop edition came late in Tintin's history and only received a limited success for 2 main reasons: for one thing, they were extremely expensive to produce, due to the mechanisms and the fact that their main audience, children, would love nothing better than to maim the books.

HallMark Rouge & Or originally produced only 5 Tintin titles: On a Marché sur La Lune, L'Ile Noire, Le Sceptre d'Ottokar, Le Trésor de Rackham Le Rouge, Vol 714 for Sydney and Le Temple du Soleil.

There are VERY few survivors.

This is the First Dutch Edition, from 1970.

Les Pop-Hop deviennent trés recherchés par les collectionneurs, aussi bien en Francais qu'en Anglais, Allemand ou Hollandais.