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The Seven Crystal Balls

Thirteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin
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The Seven Crystal Balls
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Summary

The Seven Crystal Balls is a comic book album[1]. It draws 898 Wikipedia views per month (comic book album category, ranking #28 of 200).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Hergé[3]
  • Publisher: Casterman[4]
  • Genre: adventure comic[5]
  • Follows: Red Rackham's Treasure[6]
  • Followed by: Prisoners of the Sun[7]
  • Part of the series: The Adventures of Tintin[8]
  • Language of work or name: French[9]
  • Country of origin: Belgium[10]
  • Publication date: 1948[11]
  • Start time: December 16, 1943[12]
  • Characters: Captain Haddock[13], Snowy[14], Tintin[15], Paul Cantonneau[16], Cuthbert Calculus[17]
  • Official website: http://fr.tintin.com/albums/show/id/13/page/0/0/les-7-boules-de-cristal[18]
  • Takes place in fictional universe: Tintin universe[19]
  • Title: Les Sept Boules de cristal[20]
  • Derivative work: Tintin and the Temple of the Sun[21]

Why It Matters

The Seven Crystal Balls has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Belgium Hergé

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d 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
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Bookbrainz work id: bcb50148-1f18-423d-a65a-617043738211, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290269|batch #290269]]"
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