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The Shooting Star
''The Shooting Star'' () is the tenth volume of ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised daily in ''フランス語:Le Soir'', Belgium's leading francophone newspaper, from October 1941 to May 1942 amidst the German occupation of Belgium during World War II. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin, who travels with his dog Snowy and friend Captain Haddock aboard a scientific expedition to the Arctic Ocean on an international race to find a meteorite that has fallen to the Earth.
''The Shooting Star'' was a commercial success and was published in book form by Casterman shortly after its conclusion; the first ''Tintin'' volume to be originally published in the 62-page full-colour format. Hergé continued ''The Adventures of Tintin'' with ''The Secret of the Unicorn'', while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. ''The Shooting Star'' has received a mixed critical reception and has been one of the most controversial instalments in the series due to the anti-Semitic portrayal of its villain. The story was adapted for both the 1957 Belvision animated series, ''Hergé's Adventures of Tintin'', and for the 1991 animated series ''The Adventures of Tintin'' by Ellipse and Nelvana.
==Synopsis==
A giant meteoroid approaches the earth, spotted from an observatory by Professor Decimus Phostle, while a self-proclaimed prophet, Philippulus, predicts the end of the world. The meteoroid misses the earth, but a fragment of it plunges into the Arctic Ocean. Phostle determines that the object is made of a new material which he names phostlite, and sets off to find it with a crew of European scientists. Accompanied by Tintin and Snowy, their ship, the ''Aurora'', is helmed by Tintin's friend Captain Haddock. Meanwhile, another team has set out aboard the polar expedition ship ''Peary'', backed by the financier Mr. Bohlwinkel; wherefore, the expedition becomes a race to land on the meteorite. On the day of departure, Bohlwinkel has a henchman plant a stick of dynamite on the ''Aurora'', but it is found and thrown overboard. In the North Sea, the ''Aurora'' is almost rammed by another of Bohlwinkel's ships, but Haddock steers out of the way. Further setbacks occur at the Icelandic port of Akureyri, when Haddock is informed that there is no fuel available. He and Tintin then come across an old friend of his, Captain Chester, who reveals that there is plenty of fuel and that the Golden Oil Company (which has a fuel monopoly) is owned by Bohlwinkel. The three then secretly run a hose from Chester's ship, ''Sirius'', to the ''Aurora'', and thus trick Golden Oil into providing the fuel they need.
Close to the ''Peary'', the ''Aurora'' receives an indistinct distress call from another ship and alters its course to help; but inquiries by Tintin expose that the distress signal is a decoy to delay them. Resuming the journey, they intercept a cable announcing that the ''Peary'' expedition has reached the meteorite but not yet claimed it. While the ''Peary'' crew rows to the meteorite, Tintin uses the ''Auroras seaplane to parachute onto the meteorite and plant the expedition's flag. Tintin makes camp while the ''Aurora''s engines are repaired. The next day he discovers that Phostlite accelerates growth, and makes things much larger: his apple core grows into a large tree while a maggot grows into a huge butterfly, and Tintin is menaced by a giant spider and immense, explosive mushrooms before rescue arrives. A sudden seaquake shakes the meteorite to its core and it sinks into the sea, just as Tintin and Snowy escape to the ''Aurora'' with a piece of phostlite. Thereafter Bohlwinkel learns that he is expected to be tried for his crimes. As the ''Aurora'' returns home, Captain Haddock steers the ship toward land to refuel not with oil, but with whiskey.
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