The Shooting Star

The Shooting Star ( original French title: L' Étoile mystérieuse ) is the tenth Tintin album of the French- Belgian comic artist Hergé. It first appeared on 20 October 1941 to 21 May 1942 in a black and white version in the French daily newspaper Le Soir. The associated album was released in 1942 immediately afterwards. It was the first Tim - and - Tintin album, which was printed in the first version in color.

Action

Tim is with his dog Snowy on an evening stroll. He is surprised by an extra star in the Great Bear and the unusual heat at night. When he calls in the observatory, the phone will simply hung up again. He sets out there on the road and is rejected harshly. When he finally finds a professor in the observatory, this is quite nervous, as a glowing star on the earth moved. Professor Phossyl ( in the original: Calys ) from the observatory determines the time of impact and thus the end of the world. Dejected Tim goes home and looks forward to the end. Although this does not occur ( the assistant to the professor had miscalculated ), but it comes to a violent earthquake, as a part of the meteorite hits on Earth.

Based on a Spektroskopaufnahme the meteor finds out the professor that the meteor contains a large amount of an unknown on Earth Minerals. Unfortunately, this is taken in the Arctic Ocean and thus unattainable. When Tim comes home he finds a brick, which protrudes from the water on. He suspects that a part of the meteor could rise out of the sea. An expedition is immediately compiled, the search for the rocks and then to explore. Members of the expedition are: Said Professor Phossyl, the Swede Erik Björgenskjöld, the Spanish bolero y Calamares, the German Otto Schulze, the Swiss Paul Cantonneau, the Portuguese Pedro Dos Santos Joas, Tim with his dog Snowy and Captain Haddock (see also section Miscellaneous ).

When Tim goes before traveling on board a day, someone already tried a stop. The offender escapes undetected. Immediately afterwards more interest and a crazy self-proclaimed "prophet" occur foretells misfortune - which he, however, like to nachhilft itself. In the farewell ceremony, the captain is honored as Honorary President of the " Federal seafaring teetotaler ". Embarrassing that same time a huge load of whiskey to be brought into the captain's cabin ... The ceremony is interrupted when the message arrives that the Peary is stung by São Rico into the lake to find the meteorite. The Aurora under the command of Captain Haddock stands immediately in the lake.

The Aurora is heading for Iceland, while the reader is shown how a certain Bohlwinkel is doing everything to ensure that funded him Peary expedition reached the goal before the Europeans. When the Aurora crossed the 72 latitude, it sends out the seaplane brought that actually encounters the meteorite, but also on the Peary. The Aurora is faster than Peary and can therefore expect to reach the rocks first. While she is heading full steam towards the goal, however, they reached an emergency call, which forces them to repentance. Since Tim draws suspicion, he tried all night to find out more about the ship to their rescue they are now under way. The next morning, it is clear that the emergency call was fake, to keep them from the discovery of the meteorite. This message brings the captain into a rage and the expedition to the brink of defeat.

Thanks to the water plane and a daring parachute jump Tims on the meteorite succeeds in Aurora gossamer to hoist the flag 's first on the rock. Tim is left with Snowy and a box of snacks on the rock, while the pilot of the seaplane to get food. Tim is asleep one night, and morning occur on the rock strange things: mushrooming rapidly from the soil, man reaching height and then explode with a loud bang. After growing out of the discarded cores an apple in seconds a huge apple tree with apples also huge.

As the seaplane returns, the island begins to sink after a tsunami. Tim, who was knocked unconscious by a falling apple, saves himself at the last moment in the expelled dinghy. All he can return to the ship, is a stone from meteorites. The radio announces the return of the expedition to Europe and declared, that have the sabotage of the Lord Bohlwinkel legal consequences.

Background

The album was released in 1942, while Belgium was occupied by the Germans. In the first edition of the " enemy " expedition was clearly recognizable as American- Jewish enterprise, among other things, was the mastermind behind a New York banker named " Blumenstein ". With the new edition of 1945, these insinuations were blurred, Blumenstein now called Bohlwinkel and came out of the imaginary state São Rico. The American flag aboard the Peary was airbrushed out.

Miscellaneous

• The Shooting Star was the first Tim - and - Tintin album, which was printed in the first edition in color.
• On page 20, appear in an image Quick and Flupke (Fr. Quick et Flupke ). The figures are also Hergé's work.
• The Palomar Observatory was the model for the observatory at the beginning of the book.
• The members of the expedition have ( sometimes several ) real role models: Erik Björgenskjöld erninnert of Auguste Piccard (who is also the model for Professor Calculus was ). His name is a reference to the polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.

Films

The mysterious star appeared in the animated series from 1962 and 1992.