Land of Black Gold

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Land of Black Gold is a comic album in Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin series that follows Tintin’s investigation into mysterious sabotage of fuel supplies in the Middle East.

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Land of Black Gold canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tintin adventure
comic album
antagonist Dr. Müller
antagonistRole saboteur of petrol
artStyle ligne claire
colorAlbumPublisher Casterman
countryOfOrigin Belgium
creator Hergé
featuresCharacter Abdullah
Captain Haddock
Dr. Müller
Emir Ben Kalish Ezab
Snowy
Thomson and Thompson
featuresOrganization Bordurian agents
Syldavian secret service
featuresVehicle Jeep
oil tanker
firstPublicationForm newspaper serial
firstPublicationMedium Le Petit Vingtième
genre adventure comic
humor comic
hasTheme colonial-era geopolitics
industrial sabotage
oil politics
languageOfOriginalPublication French
mainCharacter Tintin
narrativeDevice political tension over oil
notableFor inclusion of Captain Haddock in later version
multiple redrawn and revised versions
originalTitle Tintin au pays de l’or noir
partOf canonical Tintin albums
plotElement exploding car engines
plotFocus sabotage of fuel supplies
series The Adventures of Tintin
setting Middle East
fictional emirate of Khemed
targetAudience children
young adults
workInSeriesPosition follows King Ottokar’s Sceptre (in story chronology)
precedes Destination Moon

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The Adventures of Tintin hasAlbum Land of Black Gold
Hergé notableWork Land of Black Gold
Captain Haddock appearsInAlbum Land of Black Gold
Thomson and Thompson appearsIn Land of Black Gold
Prisoners of the Sun followedBy Land of Black Gold