The Adventures of Tintin - The Crab with the Golden Claws

This story was first published in French in 1941 and returns to the theme of an exotic adventure. Tintin sets off for North Africa. He thwarts a scheme thought-up by a gang of criminals who have hidden opium in tins of crab-meat.

While chasing after the strange tins of crab-meat, Tintin meets his side-kick of the future – Captain Haddock. Haddock is not at his best, to say the least. He is both Allan’s prisoner and totally alcoholic.

Before being cured, we shall have the pleasure of hearing Captain Haddock’s famous insults : pockmark, gibbering ghost, freshwater swabs and many more, blistering barnacles!

In this story we will also find a touching moment of Captain Haddock, who first appears in the Crab with the Golden Claws, finds himself in tatters: a slave to his addiction!

He finally bursts into tears whilst thinking of his mother! This total lack of control does not often happen in the Tintin adventures.