Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Tintin and The Phantom Stranger

 

There's nothing like a crisply detailed mystery to make for an entertaining afternoon of reading.  I'd like to see what kinds of secrets that this pairing could uncover together.

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  1. Maybe they could start by conclusively proving whether it was Jakar taking on Wildcat and the Falcon, yesterday. Or some other Stranger!*

    *Sorry, Tobor. I just couldn't resist beating you to the punch. :-)

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  2. Have we ever seen that medallion the Stranger's wearing from a chain DO anything? I'm wondering whether it might be a local equivalent to the Eye of Agamotto...

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    1. The more recent revision Earth had the medallion as a collection of the sins of silver that weighed on a certain person of history.

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  3. Ross, This is a meaningful cover, but Stranger (*Garycomic 😎) has a weird look to his face. Where was it from? Not Brave & Bold!

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  4. Justice League Adventures - Chris Jones art - not sure of issue #

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    1. Heh! I could've sworn it was from the episode of TB&TB: TAS where the Spectre had a bat--I mean, bet--going with the Phantom Stranger over the Dark Knight's future.

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  5. The Stranger is there to reach Tintin through his devout Catholicism, that Mussolini's Fascism was really a bad idea and inspire him that he should secretly join resistance against the Germans in the occupation of Belgium. Only then can he find redemption. (The newspaper Tintin works for, Le Petite Vingt, is a Catholic, Pro-Fascist leading journal)

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    1. That's nothing. The author who created Nyctalope (arguably, the first pulp fiction superhero of the early 20th century) was so disillusioned by the violence of WWI that he collaborated with the Nazis during the occupation of France in WWII!

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