"It was a very neat adventure on the moon." | Explorers on the Moon (The Adventures of Tintin)

Big wow factor in this one. | Explorers on the Moon (The Adventures of Tintin) | Herge

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	• Explorers on the Moon (The Adventures of Tintin) Herge Little, Brown Young Readers, 1976 - 62 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Exploring Tintins wonderful books

This was a great book! It surveyed knowledge of astronomy(which is always interesting), and then put on top of that a great mystery and awsome characters! You can't have a great Tintin story without Captain Haddock, Tintin, Proffesor Calculous, T&T, Snowy, and even Wolf make the story great. Herge really knows how to write!

"It was a very neat adventure on the moon."

I liked this book because I could understand it verythroughly. It was a very neat sequal to "DestinationMoon". And because it was a good adventure. It was good because it had a very good theme about the moon.

Big wow factor in this one.

Herge, Explorers on the Moon (Methuen, 1954)

What strikes me most about Explorers on the Moon is, having been written in the early fifties, how precise it is, and how accurate (until, of course, Herge has to wander off and throw in a few of those Martian "canals" that were all the rage in popular thinking at the time to supply some extra danger for our intrepid heroes). Great noises were made starting with The Black Island about Herge doing intensive research on the places he sent his crew in response to the charges of racism levelled at Tintin au Congo. You know as well as I do that Herge never set foot on the moon, but the intensive research was still there, and at a time when if you were doing that kind of research, you were more likely reading incomprehensible scientific articles than kids' books. Needless to say, all the research forms the grounds for the usual Tintin mix of adventure, intrigue, and danger, and adds into it the dream of many a kid who grew up in the fifties and sixties. ****

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Childlike magic

I saw this book as a child, and it ignited a strong interest in science and travel. It looks as fascinating now!

Futuristic animated adventure

This science fictional comic , written in 1954 , 14 years before the first actual moon landing , fails to disappoint , after the precedent set by its prequel , 'Destination Moon'.
This adventure sees Tintin and friends successfully go to the moon and back , defeating such problems as a rapidly depleting oxygen source and villains who have followed them into space .
I read it when I was ten and it led me to become interested in space.
I remember sitting on top of the roof of my home , reading it , and seeing a shooting star fly by. There is something intriguing about these comics.

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Tintin, the intrepid reporter; his naughty dog, Snowy; Captain Haddock; absentminded Professor Calculus; and bumbling sleuths Thomson and Thompson take off on a rocket bound for the moon, in a zany pop-up adventure.

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