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After a dead seaman is found in the waters of a seaport, Thompson and Thomson are put onto the case, but Tintin sees a bit of evidence from the victim that looked familiar. It was a bit of paper ripped off a crab meat tin. On the paper is the word Karaboudjan, which Tintin finds is a ship that's filled with drug smugglers moving opium in the tins. For getting to close, they lock him in a room on the ship when his checking it out with the Thompson and Thomson. When escaping into another cabin, he bumps into the ship's Captain Haddock. Who's alcoholic ways are being taken advantage by his first mate Allan, so he can carry the drugs without his knowledge. They manage to escape in a safety rowing boat, but they face trouble when a plane starts shooting, at them."The Crab with the Golden Claws" is Herge's ninth comic strip album of "The Adventures of Tintin" and the first episode (part 1 of 2) of Season 1. What makes this adventure a milestone, is for the reason that Tintin meets Captain Haddock, who would go onto be his main side-kick that basically more then so overshadowed him. From this beginning, you knew Haddock was a character to keep along, and the contrasting personalities between the two evened out nicely. The first encounter is a real hoot, and it crackles with his infamous cursing. On this outing Tintin is on the travel with most of action occurring out a sea on a shipping vessel. The opening of the story is pretty grim, hazy and atmospheric. This kinda stays like that throughout with the dark mystery creating tight spurts of tension and the occasional surprise within the drug smuggling foray. Although Tintin seems to take a few blows to the back of the head early on and some discoveries feel more like an accident, but that's just part of parcel on a Tintin adventure. Thompson and Thomson never disappoint with their reliable persona's making sure there's plenty of agreeably blundering humour to go around. Allen, the Captain's first mate would go on to appear in another adventure and makes for an exemplary foe. Pretty much a typical Tintin adventure with a little more menace, but Haddock's inclusion adds much more energy, colour and randomness to the whole event.
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