The Adventures of Tintin, vol. 1 : Tintin in the Land of the Soviets / Tintin in the Congo

my 12 year old love these books. i bought the whole set and he stared reading them right away. their all in comic book form and very easy reading. a perfect gift if u are trying to encourage reading. now if the school could put it on the AR ook list. that would be nice cuz he just flew them.

It is a full set of Tintin. As a Tintin fan, I do enjoy it. Tintin, a hero of the past centary. Tintin, friend of China!However, there are some other sellers with lower price and shipping fees. They may post a full set of Tintin in one package.

This is by far the best way to get the book Tintin in the Congo if you live in the United States. Not only is it hard to come by but it also comes with the very first Tintin which every collector should also own!

I wanted to have the complete collection so ordered this. Cartoon is very different from other books. Only from the Third book story and cartoon gets interesting. If want a complete collection have it else you wont miss it.

I got this book to complete my collectors set of Tintin comics of the same size. However, unlike the other stories, this has a lot of slapstick colonial references. One doesn't exactly get always appreciate the plot, but it shows a good idea of how much have the later comics come far from this.

Came in beautiful condition. Tintin in the Congo is colored and Tintin and the Soviets is in black and white. No blemishes or nothing. Nice hardcover, really a great buy.

We love Tintin, Amazon had a good price so I bought all volumes. Awesome comics for tween age boys especially!

I used to read Tintins quite often in my early teens, and thought I had covered every Tintin published. On researching further, I realized that I had missed out on the first two Tintins, and purchased it in spite of the poor reviews I had read about the adventures - just to complete the collection.And that's all it has accomplished - helped me complete the works of Tintin. This is an economical way to include the first two Tintin books in one's collection. The binding seems sturdy enough and it seems like the book will last a few years.But the adventures themselves are a real disappointment. There is little humour in these tales, and the funniest moments in either of these books barely drew a smile from me. What is even worse though, is that neither of the stories seem to have any semblance of a plot. It's just Tintin landing in the USSR and the Congo, and somehow falling into one predicament after another. The attempts by the villains to get rid of Tintin seem much like the plans by Wile E. Coyote to trap the Road-runner - only less inventive. This is aside from the grossly inaccurate depictions of the Soviets and Congolese which have drawn much criticism. But it does convey the views prevalent in much of Europe in the 1930s.However, I was never bored at any point while reading the stories - they were fast-paced and there is enough action to keep me turning the pages, though with not much excitement.Overall, I would recommend this 2-in-1 to anybody looking to add these books to their Tintin collection. The stories themselves are not quite enjoyable, especially compared to other Tintin adventures, but they do give some insight into the widely held opinions during the period of their publication.