Land of Black Gold

Blurb

Land of Black Gold is the fifteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, in which it was serialised from September 1939. The story was interrupted by the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940. Hergé later returned to the story, completing its serialisation in Tintin magazine from September 1948 to February 1950. The story is set on the eve of a European war, fueled by concerns over oil supplies. Hoping to unmask a militant group responsible for sabotaging oil supplies, the reporter Tintin sets off for the Middle East.
Over two decades later, in 1971, parts of the story were again redrawn to move the setting from the British Mandate for Palestine to the fictional state of Khemed. Land of Black Gold was published as a book by Casterman shortly after its conclusion. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with Destination Moon, while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition.