"The Adventures of Tintin raises an interesting question about the cartoon character's popularity on the other side of the Atlantic."
The question really is, why has Tintin not swept the box office and the bookstores, the way Marvel Comics superheroes like Spiderman and Batman do? The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Letter From America: Blistering box-office barnacles!
The article opines that "Tintin's fate in the Americas may have been sealed owing to the monopoly muscle of Marvel Comics, since 2009 owned by the Walt Disney Company."
"Atlantic has proved more impermeable to the passage of Tintin than the many sands he crossed to enter the farthest reaches of Asia and Africa."
The question really is, why has Tintin not swept the box office and the bookstores, the way Marvel Comics superheroes like Spiderman and Batman do? The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Letter From America: Blistering box-office barnacles!
The article opines that "Tintin's fate in the Americas may have been sealed owing to the monopoly muscle of Marvel Comics, since 2009 owned by the Walt Disney Company."
"Atlantic has proved more impermeable to the passage of Tintin than the many sands he crossed to enter the farthest reaches of Asia and Africa."
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