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Tintin: The Broken Ear takes readers into the jungles of South America where Tintin tries to find a stolen native statue, which has a mysterious broken ear. Summary Of The Book The Adventures of Tintin is a comic series that follows Tintin, a young reporter-turned detective across the world on his exciting adventures. Tintin: The Broken Ear is the sixth volume of the series, and the detective learns that a tribal South American idol was stolen from Brussels’ Museum of Ethnography. Surprisingly, it was returned to the museum the very next day. However, Tintin realizes that this statue is a fake as the original one had a broken ear, whereas this one doesn’t. The young man travels to San Theodoros in South America. The republic is in conflict as two Generals are fighting with each other to gain power. Tintin learns that the man who had made the original statue has been murdered, but his pet parrot is alive. The detective soon realizes that two South American men, Alonso and Ramón, are also trying to track down the original idol. While doing so, they make numerous attempts to take Tintin’s life. The protagonist finds himself in the middle of dense tropical forests, and even has tribal warriors aiming for his head. Tintin manages to get Alonzo and Ramón arrested for murder, but things don’t turn out as he had expected. The detective is taken into custody as he is thought to be a terrorist, and is given the death sentence! Will the volatile political situation in the country help Tintin escape? Tintin: The Broken Ear was first serialized in Le Petit Vingtième from 1935 to 1937. In 1943, it was redrawn and colourised. About Hergé Georges Prosper Remi, born in 1907, was a Belgian comic artist and writer. Hergé was his pen name. Hergé’s most popular work is The Adventures of Tintin series, which consists of twenty-four stories, including The Blue Lotus, The Shooting Star, Land Of Black Gold, and Destination Moon. His other series include Quick & Flupke, and Jo, Zette and Jocko. In 1925, Hergé started to work for the newspaper Le XXe Siècle. In 1926, Totor, his first ever cartoon series was published. Three years later he started the Tintin series. During World War II, the artist was mobilized as a reserve lieutenant. In 1950, Hergé opened Studios Hergé. 200 million copies of the Tintin series have been sold across the globe, and the books have been translated into more than seventy languages. In 1982, in celebration of Hergé’s 75th birthday, an asteroid located between Jupiter and Mars was named after the author. Hergé passed away in 1983, and he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame twenty years later.