The Crab with the Golden Claws (The Adventures of Tintin)

Nice story.

A series of clues, including a mysterious tin of crab, and the possessions of a drowned sailor leads Tintin to a Ship called Karaboudjan.He has stumbled on gang led by the villainous First Mate of the ship, Allan, and soon makes first acquaintance with Captain Haddock, presented here a pathetic and wretched drunk, very different from the robust and redoubtable Captain Haddock we come to know in the subsequent volumes.Escaping from the clutches of Allan and his gang, Tintin and the Captain take a life boat which is fired on by a plane with Moroccan markings.They manage to get hold of the plane, but due to one of the Captain's drunken outbursts the plane crashes into the Sahara.After Tintin and the Captain are rescued by the French foreign legion in Morocco, they eventually reach the port-city of Bagghar, where Tintin comes across the gang of drug-runners led by wealthy Bagghar merchant, Omar Ben Salaad.This book was an important stage in Tintin's development, and while not quite as inticate as some of the others is an entertaining and memorable addition to one's Tintin collection.

Not my favorite!

High quality production book.

I have all ways enjoyed this set of books

Brilliant!

Tintin meets Captain Haddock the start of a great friendship. See hie it began with lots of Swashbuckling adventure.

exactly as expected.