1930s Edition Versus 1940s
Although the original black-and-white edition published in the 1930s and the colour version of 1943 are very similar in many ways, there are some scenes from the original that were not included in the one most available today, especially in the first half of the adventure:
| Scene | 1930s edition | 1940s edition |
|---|---|---|
| Tintin takes a bath while listening to the news on the radio. | The news begins with a report on the Italian invasion of Abyssinia. The newscaster reads out two conflicting reports in which the Italians and the Abyssinians both claim a major victory over each other. | The newscaster goes straight on to the theft of the idol from the museum |
| Tintin reads about the idol in a book which includes an illustration of an Arumbaya. He then sees that Snowy has fallen asleep and decides to retire himself. | That night Tintin dreams that an Arumbaya slips into his bedroom and fires a dart at him through a blow-pipe. Tintin wakes up to find that he was bitten by a mosquito. | Tintin's sleep is peaceful, but the nightmare of a South American native stalking a Westerner in a bedroom was reused in The Seven Crystal Balls. |
| After Perez and Ramon are arrested on board the ship and taken ashore, Tintin receives a letter asking him to come ashore as well. | When the steward of the Ville de Lyon brings Tintin the message he is more drunk than usual, though he denies it to the captain. He feels guilty over the fact that it was he who unwittingly provided Perez and Ramon with the clue they needed to find and murder Tortilla. He's even shown drinking straight from the bottle. | The steward appears to be quite sober, in spite of his red nose. |
| Trickler decides to have Tintin killed and contacts a man who arranges for a third party to carry out the murder. | Pablo is the name of the contact while the hitman is named as Juan Paolino, the "Terror of Las Dopicos" and the best shot in the country. | The contact is renamed Rodriguez and it is the hitman who is called Pablo. |
| Trickler's hitman and Ramon both simultaneously try, and fail, to kill Tintin. Tintin captures the hitman who begs for mercy. | Paolino denies knowing anything on who hired him. This, it has to be said, is the rule in such a business. | Pablo confirms that he was hired by Rodriguez who works for Trickler. |
| When Tintin is framed for espionage and jailed, Trickler's former hitman and his gang break him out and give him a car with which to reach the border. | Tintin, on being told that his rescuer Paolino is staying in the city, insists on staying as well, but is talked out of it on the basis that he'd be recaptured the next day. | Pablo simply tells Tintin that he has taken his precautions and Tintin does not argue. |
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