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Le sceptre ottokar pdf Continue Scepter King Ottokar (Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) Cover of the English editionDate 1939 (black and white) 1947 (color) SeriesThe Adventures of TintinPubCasterlishermanCreactorHergeOriginal publicationPublicly inL Petit WingteemDeat publication 1938 - August 10 1939Langugenage Date1958Transloil Leslie Lonsdale- Cooper Michael Turner ChronologyPrecious Black Isle (1938)After which Earth of black gold (1939) (abandoned) Crab with Golden Claws (1941) King Ottokar in Scepter (French: Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) is the eighth volume of the Adventure of Tintin, a comic series by Belgian cartoonist Geragh. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingti'me Sicle for his children's supplement Le Petit Vingti'me, it was serialized weekly from August 1938 to August 1939. Gerge conceived this story as a satirical critique of nazi Germany's expansionist policies, in particular the annexation of Austria in March 1938 (Anschluss). The story tells the story of a young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who go to the fictional Balkan nation of Sildavi, where they fight a conspiracy to overthrow the monarchy of King Muskar XII. Gerge continued Tintin's Adventures with the Land of Black Gold until the forced closure of Le Vingti'me Sicle in 1940, while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comic tradition. In 1947, Gerge was painted and repainted by King Ottokar's scepter in his distinctive ligne-claire style with the help of Edgar. Jacobs for The Casterman Republican. The story represents the recurring character Bianca Castafiore, and represented the fictional countries of Syldavia and Borduria, both of which appear in later stories. The first volume of the series, which will be translated into English, King Ottokar's scepter was adapted for both the 1956 Belvision Studios animation The Adventures of Tintin and the 1991 Ellipse/Nelvana animated series The Adventures of Tintin. Synopsis, having discovered a lost briefcase in a Belgian park, Tintin returns it to its owner, Sigillographer Professor Hector Alembik, who informs the reporter about his plans to go to the Balkan country of Sildavi. Tintin discovers agents spying on the professor, and follows those responsible for the nearby Syldavian restaurant. The unidentified man agrees to meet Tintin, but is found unconscious and appears to have amnesia. Shortly thereafter, the reporter receives a threatening note and then is the target of a bomb; Tintin survives after police detectives Thomson and Thompson intercepted a bomb. Suspecting that these events are related to Silvavia, Tintin decides to accompany Professor Alembik during his upcoming visit to the country. (2) On The plane travels there, Tintin notices Alembick acting out of character, and suspects that the imposter has replaced him. Reading a pamphlet on the history of Sildavian, Tintin says that the imposter is part of a plot to steal the scepter of medieval King Ottokar IV from the current King Muskar XII before St. Vladimir's Day, thus forcing him to abdicate. Forcibly thrown from the plane by the pilot, Tintin survives and informs the local police of his fears about the plot. However, the police captain is part of the plot and he organizes an ambush in the woods where Tintin will be eliminated. Tintin evades death and heads to the capital Clow by car with opera singer Bianca Castafiore. Leaving the car to avoid singing Castafiore, Tintin was arrested again and survived another attempt before heading to Clow on foot. Arriving in the city, he meets the assistant king de camp, Colonel Boris Jorgen, and warns him of the plot. However, Jorgen is also a conspirator and is orchestrating another failed assassination attempt against Tintin. Tintin manages to personally warn the king about the plot. Worried, Tintin and Muskar rush to Kropou Castle, where the scepter is kept, to discover that the impostor pretending to be Alembik has succeeded in smuggling his accomplices out of the building. With the help of Thomson and Thompson, who recently arrived in Sildavi, Tintin pursues thieves, first by car and then on foot. He is able to prevent the scepter from being transported across the border to nearby Borduly by discovering a letter on one of the conspirators. This shows that the plot was organized by Mustler, a political agitator who runs the Sildav Iron Guard, or The Revolutionary Guards (KRC), and who intends to foment unrest in Syldavia, thereby allowing Borduria to invade and annex the country. Entering Borduray, Tintin commands a fighter jet and heads to Clow, but the Sledaw military shoot him down. Skydiving, he continues Toe on foot, returning the scepter to the king on St. Vladimir's Day and ensuring the monarchy. In gratitude, the King makes Tintin a knight of the Order of the Golden Pelican; the first foreigner to receive the honor. Tintin later learns that the imposter was Alembik's twin brother, while police arrested Mueller and rescued Professor Alembik. Historic von Anschluss: A jubilant crowd greets the Nazis in King Ottokar's Vienna Sceptre, not the first Tintin adventure to be used on modern events; Gerge, for example, previously used the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 as a political backdrop for staging in the Blue Lotus. This time Gerge closely followed the unfolding events related to the expansionist policy of Nazi Germany. In the production of this story, he was particularly Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938. The Munich Agreement and the subsequent Nazi invasion of the Sudeet region followed in October 1938. Three weeks after King Ottokar's Scepter ended the serialization, Germany invaded Poland. By this point, the threat to Belgian sovereignty posed by Nazi expansionism was becoming increasingly apparent. By 1939, events related to the Italian annexation of Albania led Gerge to insist that his editor publish the work to take advantage of current events, as he felt that Sildavia is Albania. Gerge later denied that he meant only one country. Gerge claimed that the main idea of the story was given to him by a friend; Biographer Benoit Peters suggested that the most likely candidate was school and scout friend Philippe Gerard, who for years warned of a second war with Germany. Tintin scholars claimed that Gerge did not develop the names of Sildavia and Borduria himself; Instead, the names of the countries allegedly appeared in an article included in the 1937 edition of the British Journal of Psychology, in which the author described a hypothetical conflict between a small kingdom and annexing power. Lewis Fry Richardson's article entitled Common Foreign Policy reportedly mathematically explored the nature of interstate conflict. Peters attributed the claims to George Lawrence, but said that no researcher has confirmed this source. Instead, Richardson's article titled Generalized Foreign Policy: A History in Group Psychology was published in the British Journal of Psychology by Monograph Supplements in 1939, but not to mention Syldavia or Borduria. In any case, given the date of publication, it is unlikely that this influenced the scepter of King Ottokar. At that time Germany was certainly on my mind; The scepter of Ottokar is nothing but a story about a failed Anschluss. But you can take it for any other totalitarian regime ... Also, isn't the villain Scepter Ottokar called Mustler, obviously a combination of Mussolini and Hitler? It seems to me like a clear hint. Gerge, in an interview with Noma Sadul, designed Borduly as a satirical depiction of Nazi Germany. Gerge named the pro-Boarder agitator Mustler after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Italy's national fascist leader Benito Mussolini. The name also bore similarities to the leader of the British Union of Fascists Oswald Mosley and the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands leader Anton Mussert. The Mustler Group was named after the Iron Guard, a Romanian fascist group that tried to overthrow King Carol II and form a Romanian-German alliance. Bordurian officers wore uniforms based on the German SS, while Bordurian's planes were German in design; In the original version runs away to Heinkel He 112, while in the revised version it is replaced by the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Gerge took as the basis of the operation on the false flag of Borduria to take on Sildavia from the plans outlined in the Teknik del Colpo di Stato by Kurzio Malaparta (The Technique of The Coup d'Etat). The image of Sildavia was influenced by the costumes and culture of Romania and the neighboring Balkan region. The mosques that appear in Silvavia Gerge are based on mosques found in the Balkans, while the appearance of a Sylva village with red tiled roofs and minarets may have been deliberately inspired by the Bosnian city of Mostar. Mineral-rich subsoil Sildawiia can be seen as a reference to uranium deposits found under the Carpathians of Romania, which will later be mentioned directly in a possible destination moon. Tintin scholars note that the black pelican of the flag of Sildavia resembles a black eagle of the flag of Albania, and that Romania is the only European country in which pelicans are inhabited. The Bosnian town of Mirar (pictured c.1890-1900) was proposed as a likely influence on the image of Gergo village Silvavier. The name Sildavia can be an integral part of Transylvania and Moldova, two regions with historical ties with Romania. Czech, Slovak and Czech history influenced Silva's names, while several medieval Czech kings were the inspiration for the name Ottokar. The Polish language influenced the inclusion of Gergo in the names of Syldaw places, while Polish history parallels Gerge's description of the history of Syldavian. The Sylvain language used in the book had French syntax, but with the Marollien dictionary, a joke understood by the original Brussels readership.