Blue lotus

After the exposure of the International Organization of Drugs, Tintin enjoys a vacation in the Maharaja Palace Ravajutla, whose only son he pulled out of the clutches of the leader of the gang, who disappeared at the bottom of the mountain gorge. Details of this story are in the cigars of the pharaoh. In India, a stranger arrives with an emergency message to Tintin. Alas, he is immediately striking in the arrow, poisoned by the poison, something deprivates-screech! The poor man manages to say that Tintin is very needed in Shanghai, and pronounce only one name: Mitsuhirato. Without hesitation, Tintin goes to China, where he meets the members of the secret society “Son of the Dragon”, the purpose of which is the struggle against opium. They still do not know that drug dealers will not stop at anything if only to get Tintin out of the game. The Japanese occupation authorities grab the reporter and say it for the death penalty of false accusations of espionage. Chinese friends organize an escape to him, and later Tintin finds a cipher to the radio messages of attackers. His opponent is very strong, and Tintin comes up with a tricky combination in order to put an end to the criminal activity of the syndicate. The investigation brings him to the Shanghai chicken of opium Blue Lotus ...

The Blue Lotus comic was created in 1936 and became the fifth adventure of the young reporter Tintin and his faithful friend of the snow -white Foxsterier Mila. The author of Tintin is the Belgian artist Georges Remy (1907–1983), who worked under the pseudonym Erge. His cycle about the adventures of a brave journalist with a perky crest was translated into 110 languages, recognized around the world a classic of the comic book genre and is still conquering the hearts of readers from 10 to 99