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    HERGE THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN THE SHOOTING STAR THE SHOOTING STAR What a wonder BM [A shooting star! Quick : [And theres the Great ful wight! si Swowy, wich! : 3 Yes, but jolly A " hot ! Youd think it IC haere sea tae where was, going How extraordinary .. ey hee ies Suet look st Bhat waany in the Great big star, Bear | A star too many in the Great Bear... Ie beate we! You know, Tintin, there are millions and millions of sare. What one ES) “A bear? tim mot scared... Where * Tim intrigued. As Hello? Is that the observa-| | Hello?... What?... You S00 as | get howe tory? Can you teil me...| | have the phenomenon Vit ring up the Fve just noticed a very| | under observation? Observatory. large, bright star in T sce... And ... Hell the Great Bear... Hello! ... Hello! T wonder... They've hung up Ask him why ite eo hot, Very edd! Why did they ring off so abruptly 2. Crumbs, how hot ib is | Phew! All very peculiar... and ['m it. Come on, Snowy... to the Observatory going to'get ta the bottom of Definitely, it’s bigger than ever! TA like to have a word with the Director, please. UCtoes PASE 5 tupoasivla The Director is ehgaged. That's the limit ! Slamming the You again before, thi That doesn’t matter now... Tue Observatory’s on fire! ... { told you sckor's engaged. He cane It erica J nal ‘ el Excuse me, lim looking for the Director of the Observatory. TEs me, but 2sh!... Silence! disturb my colleague; he's deep some very complicated mathera While he's Finishing, have a look trough the telescope if you like; it A sight worth sezing- IE's onormous? Simply enormous | It's horrible . horrible! ——_| Yes, in one sense its Td Tee hairy aga | rt makes ie shiver to think of them! Its lege? What legs? What lege F... Why, belong_] ing to that gigantic spider By the rings of Saturn’ + You're right... Jere, quite definitely , a Seiden. Anyway, it’s a spider? Ugh! “What a monster!... And it's travelling through 4 has characteristics oF Meta seamentata ... AC least... No! IE's an Araneus diadewatus | An enormous Aranews diadematus! Hello, Professor... I've found the A spider!... Aliarm answer... It wasa spider walking | | less litele spider! across the lens!... [t's gone That's all it was, scaring them out of their wits! ,. This Il kill we! Ie teoks like... It looks like @ huge ball of fire... Te 1S a ballot fire! A Yee, it a gigantic mage of matter A VATATASA-AST in Petion « Cpae aig PIR Sie hi bigger... before our ‘ory eyes 2... Because itis aroming, ont it Naturally it's growing biager ~ | | Yes!.., That Fire -ball is iP heading temards'us, at going to collide with the an incredible spoe rth! dick ey Great heavens! +sTHE END Heading tonande us 2... But if it Keeps on coming at I've Finished, sir. Here are the calcul- the end of [ ...AE 8.124 | | But..AE'S impossible [ Made a mis- ations. The callicion will take place | | theworld —a.m...,Thaes | | .You...f mean take! Us? tomorrow morning at 0812 ses —“gpod...aud 1, Decimus | | ferhaps Phostle, have determined | | yor made the moment at which tie cataclysm will be Fall ust Tomorrow i shall 1... 1m sure they're all coneect | Profeseor!... I'll take your word | For it ! Goodbye! The end of || the woria! re ah Rats!... Millions of rats coming upfrom the sewers! Absolutely panic-stricken! SNOWY!... SNOWY! Oh, so there you are! Well t What are you doing there? Why "Em you come when [call Great snakes! He... he can’t move te Tt looks,..[b leaks a3 IF he's paralysed ! Repent! The end the world is ai Judgement is upon us! | pe aaa T i am Philippulus the prophet | 1 proclaiw the day of Fervor !,.. cold!... There will be pestilence, and Famine, and mencles Took here Mr. You hear that + He Get back to Satan, Oyez, there will be a plague! Frophet, why don't | | dares to set hirmsciF your Master! Budonic plague! you go home? You'd up against Philippulus| )s, 5 and Fever! The (That Fellow gets tbe better off in || the prophet... An Gy fend othe werld | on my nerves! be advocate of the devil ! ue is upon us, servant, A son of Satan! i ‘A tool of Beel-_ zebub! f Crusnbs! The window Frame is 0 Woe 1 burnt The end of the world, Snowy!...The END of the world |... Theend of the WORLD!" D'yau Poor ald Snowy... dying fora drink. And that oor little Plants all wilted Return to your Master, the Prince of Darkness ! ‘There!.., Now | hope We'll leave L think TH have a bit of acest. Un absolutely, worn Phew!...Lve nad enough oF this . 90 How did you get in were? ope Prophets come and as they please ! going out! And get a move. ont T don't Know how you got in, but {know jolly well how you're res You sit down! And take a look at what Ive brought p= you Fx Yea! Benold the judgement! 2 An enormous spider! Great snakee! I was dreaming... the clock woke me up! Exactly eight e'clock! Twelve minutes wore... AE least ». Now L come Eo Ehink of it, my clock loses... Quick, let's dial TIM aud check the time _ seconds... pi Pip..pip. Ab the fined "stroke ie wit be cight twelve and twonty seconds... fip...pip...pip. A the third stroke it will be eight: twelve and thirty seconds... ip. pip. Twouden how they'll explain thi¢ one at the Observatory ! ue Hello 4... Hello? 2 Hello. Tho tole- phowe’s not working s+. Come on Snowy, We're going along there. No!... Ow second thoughts, we aren't dead...and it isn't the eud of the world.. Ite nothing | but an earth- We're dead!.. a ml \ ae to Hooray! 1b only an earthquake !... Hooray! Hooray !... Hooray! Hooray !.. The end of the Ty | | It's good to, 4 | ve ative! gi world hae been nel E oy WV) . Bungler!... Dunderbead * his calculations! ‘The meteor with it and causing the mag: niFicent - Gataclysm Fiitope fon| ye sil aot store... But tell The jot! He made a mistake in passed 48,000 km away from fhe earth, instead of colliding Never mind, Frofessor | what about rhe a me: Te baz just boew developed, sir, Ik is indeed remarkable, don't you agree, sir? Excellent... Excellent! But, look there. How very extraordinary ! That group of | Ura lines, in the centre? Urania f pre iam? NOE on your By the rings of Saturn! It's» prodigions ! Tralala tS lat [ Te may be prodig- foes, rat IES prodigious|.. Incredible. Fantastic!...Stupefying ! My Friends, | have made a sevisational die- covery! [have just de tected anew metal... A metal hitherto entirely unkuown ! You've heard of the spectroscope. It's the instru- ment that enables us to discover elements in Stare, clements not yet isclated here on the ‘earth, This is a spectroscopic photograph of the meteor which brushed past us today. Each of these lines, or cach group of lines is characteristic of a metal. Those lines in the centre repre cent an unlesown hich exits inthe I, Pecimus Phostle, have discovered avew metal! [ shall give my name toit phost lite, My heartiest congratulations! But Frofessor, to got back to the meteor...it didn't eallide with the earth, £0 why was there an carthauake t Tell me, young = do you like Answer me. De you or do you riot. Ike bulls- ayes? worth Bulliceyes 4. Yes, thanic Yous. bub... Go out and buy tea penny of bull's zyes! We mmuet have a fitting celebration of my dis- covery! You were acking about the earth- ‘quake?...0h, yes (twas caused by part of the meteor crashing Eo earth, ‘Ne soon.as we know were it fell, the The polar station on Cape Morrie (on the nerthern coast of Greeuland) reports that a meteorite Was undoubtedly fal- | len in the Arctic Ocean, Seal- hunters saw a bail of Fire cross the sky and disappear over the horizon. A few seconds later the earth shook violently and ic 15 cracked ‘ (ES Jt las fallen into tne seal... It hae been ow gulfed iy the waves! ‘nd with it, my di covery! Proof of Hie existence of phostlite. that’s Ehat Snowy. THe phos lite’s sunk This is the end! My metoorite! My Phostlite! Come on, Snowy, we'll leave him. Poor Professor Phostlo Heb terribly upset because his meteerite's Fallen in- tothe sea pe es i} He's evon For. by the earthquake * Now what's up? Floods, this time t Oris it just a water main cracked | | [ These bricks will make stopping stonee to keep my Feet dry. iy Groat snakes! didw't we t ak OF Why on earth You see thie brick Snowy! That brick is the mete: is the Arctic Ocean. Now d'you see what | mean, Snowy ? Look at it, Snowy... Sticking out of the ~The water Professor ! Profeseor ! The meteorite tat came down would be enormous, wouldn't itt OF course! The. violence of the By the rings earthquake oF Saturn, proved that. Then there's still hope. fart of such a huge mass would suraly stick out of the water? We must make a search and find the meteorite. We must organize an expedition. Tim sure we shall be able Eo obtain the capital we need From the European foundation for Scientific Research. We must got down to ome lime Cater. organizing the expedition at once. Will you help water and A scientific expedition including leading European experts is leaving shortly ona voyage of discovery in Arctic waters, Its objective is to Find the meteorite which recently Fell in the Arctic region. It is believed that a part of the meteorite may be protruding above Ene surface of the e ices The expedition will be Professor Phostle, who The other members of the vealed the presence of avi un- own metal in the metzorite. led by hasre- Eric Bjérgenckjéld, author y Calamares, of the ‘on solar prominences ; ary are: +--Seitor ForFirio Bolero of distinguished papers University oF Salama .-. Herr Doktor Otto Schulze, of the cay Profaccor Paul Cantonneau, of the University ‘of vie Senhor Pedro Jos 00s Santos, renowned physicist, of the s-.Tintin, the young reporter, ‘wito will represent the press; and lastly, Captain Haddock, Precidont of the 6.5.5. (ociety 9F Seber Sailors) who will com “Aurora* sails bo- waters, L don't think uch oF thie expeditions itil ‘bg jolly cold up there. Paris: University of Coimbra; mand the “Aurora; the vessel in which the expedition will embark Dre de Weil go aboard For our Caan laat wight before set~ Well, Suomy, the ting oF F For Arctic Helle... 2omeone’s run down tite gangplank wnning Confound that rope! = He's vanieh Now, L wonder what that Fellow _ was ding aboard ship Are you on wateh * | Hello, Captain. I've just seen'a man bolting OFF the ship. He made off when Lchallonged hiv! Ti say he wants us to Follow him Dynamite !... Lucky forus someone put Auynay, we mast be out tha Fuse! a on our guard. [ suggect you go the rounds. ship, o at least damage it badly. But why? One thing, iF | ever lay hande on that Pyromaniac, he" [A good 4 dicpay of idea... = | Yee, we must keep onreyes open, 9 The got you you DYNAM Tee a a aearet Es 4 daylight! SHIPWRECKER | Good gracious! | 1 shall complain! [shall com-| | Professor Phostle, allow me Eo introduce Captain It's Professor | plain tothe @ Captain! Haddock ... Yeu must excuse him, but we've just Phostle! discovered 48 ay alae ae attempt at ea sabotage Yes, actick of dynamite @ on the deck! Forkunately Snowy Thundering typhoons! had the sense to put out the fuse. Bue come aud 520... The dynamite! It’s gone! .. Did you pick something up From the deck there? TE was there only two minutes ago!.. simply can't under- nd That's me. [Il : Profescor einea come down, Cantonneau, 1 would (i like to

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