Tintin in America (1931/1945) (HR-1920-Color) (FM+NW)-(gesserit)

The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin in America @ Wikipedia


Story notes: Picking up directly where the previous volume left off, Tintin and Snowy travel to America, where Tintin reports on organized crime in Chicago and, pursuing a gangster across the country, encounters Native Americans.


Scanscription notes:

1931-32:Original serialized publication
1932:Original single-volume edition
1945:Original colour edition
1973:English translation of the 1945 edition
1997:German translation of the 1945 edition
( 2014:gesserit combines scans of the 1973 and 1997 editions into this! )

" When the second version of the story was translated into English by Michael Turner and Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, they made a number of alterations to the text [...] Other changes were made to render the story more culturally understandable to an Anglophone readership [...] For the 1973 edition published in the US, the publishers made Herge remove African-American characters from the book, and redraw them as Caucasians or Hispanics, because they did not want to encourage racial integration among children. "
-Wikipedia article

According to the German version of the article, the "remove[d] African-American characters" referred to in that passage are the mother and child on page 49 (final panel). Why the German edition is based on the English, rather than the French, version's artwork, is unexplained. Be that as it may, the (IMO regrettable) upshot is that all of the above alterations are present here.

There is what clearly seems to me to be a minor continuity mistake in the captioning on page 54 (top row of panels), but as this, too, was present in both the English and German versions, it stands to reason that it must also be present in all of the original versions; therefore, I did not presume to correct it.