Connections With Other Tintin Books
This is the first Tintin album in which Thomson and Thompson appear. In the original 1930s strip they call themselves X33 and X33b and were treated with more notable respect than in later adventures: showing a great deal of cunning and ingenuity when rescuing Tintin from execution and Snowy from sacrifice. When they dress up as veiled women it is the only time that they wear disguises that fool anybody (even Tintin).
At the end of the 1934 version, they simply take their leave, telling Tintin that they must return to Egypt to complete the investigation. The 1955 version has them falling down some steps.
When the Tintin colour albums are read in chronological order, Cigars is the first in which the villain Allan appears. However, Allan does not appear in the original 1934 black and white album; the first story that Hergé actually drew Allan in was The Crab with the Golden Claws.
(In the 1930s version of Cigars, the captain of the ship that takes on board the sarcophagi is unseen and contemptuously dismisses the boxes as antiques that can be thrown overboard. Allan, in contrast, believes them to contain drugs and has them thrown overboard when challenged by the coast guard.)
The Blue Lotus was a sequel to Cigars, starting with Tintin and Snowy still in India with the Maharajah. Tintin then proceeds to China to battle another branch of the same gang of smugglers, which also uses the poison of madness and meets the mysterious leader, who turns out to be Rastapopoulos. Before going mad, the poet Zloty warns Tintin: "The boss... film... don't trust..." Rastapopulos is the director of Cosmos Pictures.
Although Cigars precedes Lotus, the backs of one edition of the English-language books show Lotus preceding Tintin in America, after which the books continue in their correct order.
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