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Above: covers of Le Petit Vingtième issues 7 and 18 from February 13 and May 1st respectively, carrying Hergés first Tintin comic adventure Tintin in the land of the Soviets.

Before Georges Remi aka Hergé became famous as the artist and creator of Tintin, he worked for the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, creating illustrations to go with some of their articles. This was in 1925. Three years later, like so many other newspapers, Le Vingtième started a seperate comics supplement called Le Petit Vingtième and Georges became Editor-in-Chief.

Le Petit Vingitième was a small, eight page supplement and started publishing Hergés first ever Tintin story Tintin in the land of the Soviets (Tintin au pays des Soviets) in their 11th issue, on January 10, 1929. A year later the magazine would expand to 16 pages and Hergés introduced his gag strip Quick & Flupke.

The first nine stories of Tintin were published in Le Petit Vingtième until publication of the magazine was halted after May 9th 1940,  when the Nazis invaded and occupied Belgium. Publication of the last story, Land of the Black Gold (Tintin au pays de loir noir) was never finished.

After the war Tintin got his own comics magazine, which would publish the many other stories Hergé and his studio would create. Studio Hergé was founded in 1950 and it is no secret that much of Tintins later adventures was drawn by his assistants, Belgian comic masters such as Edgar P. Jacobs and later also by Jacques Martin and Bob de Moor.



Above: After finishing the publication of Tintins first adventure, the magazine left their fans guessing where Tintin would go next, but a week later showed Tintin amidst the African Jungle. Covers of issues 21 and 22 advertising the start of Herges second comic story Tintin in the Congo, which started in issue 23 of June 5, 1930. In comicbook form, this story would later be renamed Tintin in Africa.

Flup, Nenesse, Poussette et Cochonnet.

While Hergé published his first Tintin adventure, he also created a twenty page short story titled Flup, Nenesse, Poussette et Cochonnet. The comic was written by the sports editor of Le Vingtième and was published in the premier issue of the comics supplement, on November 1, 1928 until March 7, 1929.

I had never seen it before and recently stumbled upon this story, at a great French website containing many archived works of Hergé. Unfortunately the owner, Daniel Bellier just recently passed away. If you want to check out or read the original editions of Hergés comic newspaper publications check out his site http://www.bellier.org (hit the entrée button once youre there).

With gratitude to Belliers site, check out one of Hergés first comics below. Its twenty pages (in French), although pages 15/16 are omitted and have not resurfaced yet. Make sure to click the images for a much larger view: