Thank you to Em Finan, who made this episode possible.

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Anthology of Heroes Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anthology-of-heroes-history/id1513571349

Music featured in Anthology of Heroes segment:
The Ice Giants by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5745-the-ice-giants
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Anatomy of Fascism, Robert O. Paxton:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/128540/the-anatomy-of-fascism-by-robert-o-paxton/

Ur-Fascism, Umberto Eco
https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf

King Ottokar's Sceptre (French: Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) is the eighth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from August 1938 to August 1939. Hergé intended the story as a satirical criticism of the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany, in particular the annexation of Austria in March 1938 (the Anschluss). The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who travel to the fictional Balkan nation of Syldavia, where they combat a plot to overthrow the monarchy of King Muskar XII.

This mini bonus episode is a collaboration with the podcast Anthology of Heroes, which explores the lives of the national heroes of each nation. I’m a big fan of the podcast, and considering my older brother hosts it, I thought it would be very fun to see the national hero of Hergé’s fictional nation Syldavia get the same treatment.

You can find Anthology of Heroes here

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anthology-of-heroes-history/id1513571349

Music featured:

The Ice Giants by Kevin MacLeod

https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5745-the-ice-giants

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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The Black Island (French: L'Île noire) is the seventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from April to November 1937. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who travel to England in pursuit of a gang of counterfeiters. Framed for theft and hunted by detectives Thomson and Thompson, Tintin follows the criminals to Scotland, discovering their lair on the Black Island.

Links to the songs sampled on this episode (and lots more tasty Tintin content) can be found on latterature.com/Tintin.

Songs sampled:

‘La Chanson de Tintin et Milou’ (The Song of Tintin and Snowy).
Performed by Guy Revalde “and a chorus of friends of Tintin'“, 1959.
Composed by Jean Frederic and Maurice Monford.

‘Tintin Et La Toison D'Or’ (Tintin and the Golden Fleece).
Isabelle Aubret (i); Les Criquets (ii), 1962.
Composed by Andrew Pop, Jean Frederic and Pierre Delanoe.

‘Notre Meilleur Copain C'est Tintin’ (Our Best Friend is Tintin).
Martin Circus, 1979.
Composed by Gérard Blanc and Sylvain Pauchard.

‘Comme Tintin’ (Like Tintin).
Chantal Goya, 1982.
Composed by Jean-Jacques Debout.

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The Broken Ear is the sixth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from December 1935 to February 1937. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, as he searches for a South American fetish, identifiable by its broken right ear, and pursues thieves who have stolen it. In doing so, he ends up in the fictional nation of San Theodoros, where he becomes embroiled in a war and discovers the Arumbaya tribe deep in the forest.

Sources cited:

Assouline, Pierre, and Charles Ruas. Hergé : The Man Who Created Tintin. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Daubert, Michel, and Hergé . Tintin: the Art of Hergé. Abrams ComicArts, 2018.

Hergé. Tintin in the Land of the Soviets: Coloured Version. Editions Moulinsart, 2017.

Henley, Jon. “Was This the Man Who Inspired Tintin?” The Guardian, 7 Dec. 2010, www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/dec/07/man-who-inspired-tintin.

Maricq, Dominique. Hergé in His Own Words. Éditions Moulinsart, 2016.

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The Blue Lotus is the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from August 1934 to October 1935 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1936. Continuing where the plot of the previous story, Cigars of the Pharaoh, left off, the story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are invited to China in the midst of the 1931 Japanese invasion, where he reveals the machinations of Japanese spies and uncovers a drug-smuggling ring.

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Cigars of the Pharaoh is the fourth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from December 1932 to February 1934. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are travelling in Egypt when they discover a pharaoh's tomb filled with dead Egyptologists and boxes of cigars. Pursuing the mystery of these cigars, they travel across Arabia and India, and reveal the secrets of an international drug smuggling enterprise.

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Tintin in America is the third volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialized weekly from September 1931 to October 1932 before being published in a collected volume by Éditions du Petit Vingtième in 1932. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy who travel to the United States, where Tintin reports on organized crime in Chicago. Pursuing a gangster across the country, he encounters a tribe of Blackfoot Native Americans before defeating the Chicago crime syndicate.

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Tintin in the Congo (French: Tintin au Congo) is the second volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from May 1930 to June 1931 before being published in a collected volume by Éditions de Petit Vingtième in 1931. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are sent to the Belgian Congo to report on events in the country. Amid various encounters with the native Congolese people and wild animals, Tintin unearths a criminal diamond smuggling operation run by the American gangster Al Capone.