Having bought a model ship, the Unicorn, for a pound off a market stall Tintin is initially puzzled that the sinister Mr. Sakharine should be so eager to buy it from him, resorting to murder and ...

A teenage journalist goes all over the world with his sidekick – it doesn’t sound like it should be the basis for one of the best comic book series to come out of the 20th century, and yet ...