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King Ottokar's Sceptre

eighth volume of The Adventures of Tintin
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King Ottokar's Sceptre
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Summary

King Ottokar's Sceptre is a comic book album[1]. It draws 1,451 Wikipedia views per month (comic book album category, ranking #24 of 200).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Hergé[3]
  • Publisher: Methuen Publishing[4]
  • Genre: adventure comic[5], locked room mystery[6]
  • Follows: The Black Island[7]
  • Followed by: The Crab with the Golden Claws[8]
  • Part of the series: The Adventures of Tintin[9]
  • Language of work or name: French[10]
  • Country of origin: Belgium[11]
  • Publication date: 1939[12]
  • Start time: August 4, 1938[13]
  • Characters: Bianca Castafiore[14], Tintin[15], Snowy[16], Hector Alembick[17], Thomson and Thompson[18]
  • Has edition or translation: Q126687417[19]
  • Narrative location: Syldavia[20], Borduria[21], Brussels[22]
  • Official website: https://tintin.com/fr/albums/le-sceptre-d-ottokar[23]
  • Number of pages: 62[24]
  • Takes place in fictional universe: Tintin universe[25]
  • Title: Le Sceptre d'Ottokar[26]
  • Set in environment: fictional country[27]

Why It Matters

King Ottokar's Sceptre has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Belgium Hergé

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · HedgeHog · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → comic book album
    Set in environment → fictional country
    Narrative location → Syldavia, Borduria, Brussels
    Language of work or name → French
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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