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The Black Island

seventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin
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Summary

The Black Island is a comic book album[1]. It draws 1,183 Wikipedia views per month (comic book album category, ranking #22 of 200).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Hergé[3]
  • Publisher: Casterman[4]
  • Genre: comics[5]
  • Follows: The Broken Ear[6]
  • Followed by: King Ottokar's Sceptre[7]
  • Part of the series: The Adventures of Tintin[8]
  • Language of work or name: French[9]
  • Country of origin: Belgium[10]
  • Publication date: 1938[11]
  • Start time: 1937[12]
  • Characters: Tintin[13], Snowy[14], Thomson and Thompson[15], J. W. Müller[16], Marco Rizotto[17], Christopher Willoughby-Drupe[18]
  • Has edition or translation: Q126700658[19]
  • Official website: http://fr.tintin.com/albums/show/id/7/page/0/0/l-ile-noire[20]
  • Number of pages: 64[21]
  • Takes place in fictional universe: Tintin universe[22]
  • Title: L'Île Noire[23]
  • Different from: Île Noire[24]

Why It Matters

The Black Island has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

Belgium Hergé

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · HedgeHog · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → comic book album
    Language of work or name → French
    Country of origin → Belgium
    Takes place in fictional universe → Tintin universe
    + 26 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Bookbrainz work id: 937e8128-0d49-4050-9162-30af49118e66, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290269|batch #290269]]"
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