Product information: -First pre-published in "Le Petit Vingtième" between August 1934 and October 1935, under the title "Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter en Extrême-Orient", "Le Lotus bleu" was published by Casterman, in French, as a 124-page black-and-white book in 1936.
Chasing the opium smugglers he encountered in Cigars of the Pharaoh to China, Tintin finds himself embroiled in multiple deceptive plots: who are the enemies and who are the allies in this twilight tale? In this adventure, our hero befriends Chang, a young Chinese boy who helps him to overcome his past prejudices. Having gained a friend for life by solving the riddle from the previous adventure, Tintin finds himself at odds with Rastapopoulos, now his sworn enemy…