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The Black Island (French: L'Île Noire) is the seventh of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of...

The Black Island (French: L'Île Noire) is the seventh of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. It was first published in the newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième in the late 1930s and subsequently in a black-and-white album. Two more versions of the story were published in 1943 and 1966. In France it was first published in 1937 in the magazine Coeurs Vaillants as Le Mystère de l'avion gris (The Mystery of the Grey Plane). While walking in the Belgian countryside Tintin sees an un-registered plane making an emergency landing, and goes to help, but as he comes near he is shot by the pilot. Tintin recovers at a hospital where police detectives Thomson and Thompson inform him that a similar plane has crashed in a field in Sussex, England. Tintin decides to investigate for himself. Tintin takes a train from Brussels to the coast in order to board the ferry from Ostend to Dover. During the journey he is framed for the assault and theft of a fellow passenger (who is in fact part of the mysterious criminal gang Tintin has inadvertently stumbled upon).