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2 unusual facts about The Black Island


Hergé's Adventures of Tintin

In Black Island, Captain Haddock plays a leading part, whereas he wasn't in the original book.

Le Thermozéro

After a few sketches were made this project fell through as well, as Hergé asked Bob de Moor to modernize The Black Island instead.


Castlebay

In the 2010 Channel 4 programme Dom Joly and the Black Island, Joly and Tintinologist Michael Farr identify Castlebay and Kisimul as the locations of Kiltoch and the Ben More Castle used as settings in The Adventures of Tintin comic The Black Island, although the scenes of reaching it by boat and exploring it on foot were filmed at Lochranza Castle on the Isle of Arran.


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