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Les aventures de Tintin: Le lotus bleu
Casterman, 1946 (colour edition)
(First published in black and white in Le Petit Vingtième between 1934 and 1935)
Le lotus bleu (The Blue Lotus) was first pre-published in black and white from 9 August 1934 to 17 October 1935 in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième – the youth supplement of the newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle – under the title Les Aventures de Tintin reporter en Extrême-Orient, before being published in an album of 124 plates under its definitive title by Casterman. The album was revised and coloured in 1946.