Tintin adventure "The Shooting Star" fetches near-record 2.5 millionn Euros

 

The original cover design for Tintin adventure "The Shooting Star" has been sold for 2.5 million euros (USD 2.8 million) in a near-record for a work by the boy detective's Belgian creator Herge

The yellowing, line sketch that Herge made for the 1942 book was bought by a European investor, Marina David of Petits Papiers-Huberty-Breyne, specialist comic book dealers, told

The published, colour version of the cover shows Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy looking on in astonishment as a huge, red and white-capped mushroom swells up out of a barren rocky beach, part of a meteorite, hence the title which has fallen into the sea.

At 2.5 million euros (USD 2.9 million), the price is one of the highest for a work by Herge who sold some 230 million Tintin albums by the time of his death in 1983