Hergé
Les aventures de Tintin: Tintin au pays de l’or noir
Casterman, 1950
(First published, interrupted, in black and white in Le Petit Vingtième between 1939 and 1940)
The story was pre-published in black and white and then three-colour in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième, the weekly supplement to the newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, from September 1939 until the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940, at which the newspaper was shut down and the story interrupted. After an eight-year hiatus, which left the story unfinished, the story was reprinted in colour in the pages of Tintin from September 1948 to February 1950. The adventure was then published in an album of sixty-two plates by Casterman. This first version of the album, published in 1950, set the action in Palestine under the British Mandate, and a second version in 1971, partially revised, took place in an imaginary Arab country that Hergé called the Khemed.