The Black Island (French: L'Île Noire) is the seventh of The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums written and illustrated by Belgian artist Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as the hero. Tintin travels to Great Britain, where he is framed for a theft, is hunted by Thomson and Thompson, and is on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters.
It was first published in the newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième in the late 1930s and subsequently in a black-and-white album. Two more versions of the story were published in 1943 and 1966. In France it was first published in 1937 in the magazine Coeurs Vaillants as Le Mystère de l'avion gris (The Mystery of the Grey Plane).
The book is notable for Snowy's repeated misbehaviour and heroism, and is the only story in which Tintin physically disciplines Snowy.
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