11 - ‘King Ottokar's Sceptre’ (1939) || Radio Tintin

A sample of Hergé’s notebook, showing the beginning of planning for what would become King Ottokar’s Sceptre. Preliminary versions of the sceptre can be seen on the left.

Philippe Goddin, and Michael Farr. The Art of Hergé : Inventor of Tintin. Volume 2, 1937-1949. Moulinsart, 2011.

A picture of a Macedonian lemonade salesman from Hergé’s archives (left) and his Syldavian counterpart. Macedonia would be one of many nations that Hergé drew inspiration from for his fictional nation.

Farr, Michael. Tintin: the Complete Companion. Egmont, 2011.

Some of the differences between Hergé’s original 1939 edition and the 1947 colour-version, spearheaded by Edgar P Jacobs.

Hergé, his wife Germaine, and Jacobs, inserted into the royal court on pages 38 and 59.

Some of the many covers of Le Petit Vingtieme dedicated to Tintin in Syldavia.

The full-page colour inserts included in the 1939 album release, omitted from later editions.