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| General Description : | Cigars of the Pharaoh (French: Les Cigares du pharaon) is the fourth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le XXe Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from December 1932 to February 1934. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are travelling in Egypt when they discover a pharaoh's tomb filled with dead Egyptologists and boxes of cigars. Pursuing the mystery of these cigars, they travel across Arabia and India, and reveal the secrets of an international drug smuggling enterprise. Following on from Tintin in America, Cigars was a commercial success, and was published in book form shortly after its conclusion. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with The Blue Lotus, the plot of which followed on from Cigars. The series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. In 1955, it was re-drawn and coloured in Hergé's distinctive ligne-claire style for republication by Casterman. Critical analysis of the story has focused on its innovation, and the Adventure introduces the recurring characters of detectives Thomson and Thompson and villain Rastapopoulos. |
| Face value | 0,46 Euro |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 3687 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | BE 2234d |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier BE 3622 Stanley Gibbons BE 4070 Belgium BE 3639 WADP Numbering System - WNS BE039.07 Unificato BE 3631 |
| Series | Hergé 1907-2007 |
| Stamp colour | multicolour |
| Stamp use | Mini-sheet stamp |
| Print run | 824.804 |
| Issue date | 19/05/2007 |
| Designer | Hergé |
| Print technique | Offset lithography |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 48.75 mm |
| Width | 38.15 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
