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''The Black Island'' () is the seventh volume of ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper フランス語:''Le Vingtième Siècle'' for its children's supplement フランス語:''Le Petit Vingtième'', it was serialised weekly from April to November 1937. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who travel to England in pursuit of a gang of counterfeiters. Framed for theft and hunted by detectives Thomson and Thompson, Tintin follows the criminals to Scotland, discovering their lair on the Black Island. ''The Black Island'' was a commercial success and was published in book form by Casterman shortly after its conclusion. Hergé continued ''The Adventures of Tintin'' with ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'', while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. In 1943, ''The Black Island'' was coloured and re-drawn in Hergé's distinctive ''フランス語:ligne-claire'' style for republication. In the mid-1960s, Hergé's British publishers requested a major revision of the story, for which he sent his assistant Bob de Moor to Britain on a research trip; on his return, Studios Hergé produced a revised, third edition of the story, serialised in ''Tintin'' magazine. ''The Black Island'' introduces the recurring villain Dr. Müller, and has been widely cited as one of the most popular instalments in the series. The story was adapted for both the 1957 Belvision animation, ''Hergé's Adventures of Tintin'', and for the 1991 Ellipse/Nelvana animated series ''The Adventures of Tintin''. ==Synopsis== Tintin discovers a plane stranded in the Belgian countryside, offers to help, but is shot by the pilot. Tintin awakens in hospital, where the detectives Thomson and Thompson visit him. They inform him that the plane subsequently flew to Sussex, England, where it crashed. Tintin and Snowy proceed to Sussex, but along the way, two criminals frame Tintin for robbery. Arriving in England by ferry in Newhaven, the criminals kidnap Tintin and attempt to kill him over the cliffs of Seaford, but with Snowy's help, he escapes. Discovering the plane wreckage, he finds a torn up note in the pilot's jacket, and following the writing on it arrives at the estate of Dr. J. W. Müller, a German who owns a mental institution. Müller captures Tintin, but the young reporter again escapes. In a scuffle, Müller's house catches ablaze and the criminals escape. The next morning, Tintin finds electric cables and red beacons in the garden, surmising that they are there designed to attract a plane drop. At night, he lights the flares, and finds that planes drops sacks of counterfeit money, revealing that Müller is running a gang of forgers. He pursues Müller and his accomplices and along the way, Thompson and Thomson join them. When Müller takes a plane north, Tintin, Snowy and the two detectives follow, but hit a storm and crash land in rural Scotland. Learning that Müller's plane had crashed off the coast of Kiltoch, a Scottish coastal village, Tintin travels there to continue his investigation. At Kiltoch, an old man tells him the story of Black Island — an island off the coast where a "ferocious beast" kills any visitors. Tintin and Snowy travel to the island, where they find that the "beast" is a trained gorilla named Ranko. They further discover that the forgers are using the island as their base, and radio the police for help. Although the criminals attempt to capture Tintin, the police arrive and arrest the criminals, with Ranko going to a zoo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Black Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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