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The Adventures of Tintin (French: Les Aventures de Tintin [lez‿avɑ̃tyʁ də tɛ̃tɛ̃]) is a series of 24 comic albums written and illustrated by Belgian cartoonist Hergé (pen name of Georges Remi). One of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, Tintin had been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies by 2007, with the series also having been adapted for radio, television, theatre, and film.

The series debuted in French on 10 January 1929 in Le Petit Vingtième, a youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. The success of the series led to serialised strips published in Belgium's leading newspaper Le Soir and spun into a successful Tintin magazine. In 1950, Hergé created Studios Hergé, which produced the canonical versions of ten Tintin albums. Following Hergé's death in 1983, the final installment of the series, Tintin and Alph-Art, was released posthumously.

Set in the contemporary world, the series focuses on the titular Tintin, a courageous young Belgian reporter and adventurer aided by his faithful dog Snowy (Milou in the original French publication). Other allies include the brash and cynical Captain Haddock, the intelligent but hard-of-hearing Professor Calculus (French: Professeur Tournesol), incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson (French: Dupont et Dupond), and the opera diva Bianca Castafiore.

The series has been praised for its clean, expressive drawings in Hergé's signature ligne claire ("clear line") style. Its well-researched plots straddle a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy, mysteries, political thrillers, and science fiction. The stories feature slapstick humour, offset by dashes of political or cultural commentary.