Vuelo 714 para Sídney

Description

This album marks a return to adventure. It begins to appear in the weekly Tintin, in September 1966, four years after the end of The Jewels of the Castafiore. Here we meet Rastatopoulos, whom we thought was drowned at the end of Stock of Coke, and his friend Allan. A new figure appears: the extremely rich Lazlo Carreras, the man who never laughs. Carreiras is a millionaire who owns airplanes, oil companies, and Sani-Cola. This character was inspired by Marcel Dassault. He is a paradoxical character: he is among the good guys, but under the effect of truth serum he is portrayed as being without too many scruples when it comes to having amassed his fortune. Towards the end of the story we discover Mik Ezdaditoff, a character who was inspired by Jacques Bergier, author of the book Le Matin des magiciens and animator for the magazine Planète. We see here Hergé’s fascination with paranormal and extraterrestrial phenomena.