Flight 714, first published in 1968, is the twenty-second and penultimate volume of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums by the Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. Its original French title is Vol 714 pour Sydney ("Flight 714 to Sydney"). The title refers to a flight that the heroes fail to catch, as they become involved in a plot to kidnap an eccentric millionaire involving...
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Flight 714, first published in 1968, is the twenty-second and penultimate volume of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums by the Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. Its original French title is Vol 714 pour Sydney ("Flight 714 to Sydney"). The title refers to a flight that the heroes fail to catch, as they become involved in a plot to kidnap an eccentric millionaire involving a private jet and a Pacific island.
Hergé made an error when drawing the story: it was meant, like all Tintin albums, to be 62 pages long, but when he finished, it was found to be 64 pages long. Hergé's solution was to remove two pages from the end of the story, which covered the rescue of Tintin's group from the erupting volcano.
The omission meant that the reader now sees a cliffhanger. At the bottom of one page a reporter on a seaplane watching the raft holding Tintin's group exclaims (in the English translation), "They'll be boiled alive...
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