Trivia / Tintin: The Black Island

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: In the original 1938 publication of The Black Island, there's a panel where Tintin and Snowy walk past a train tanker for Johnnie Walker whisky in Scotland. In the later rereleases, Hergé amended this by putting Loch Lomond whisky as a Bland-Name Product, instead. However, by total chance, Loch Lomond is also the name of a Scottish whisky manufacturer, and this would serve as Captain Haddock's trademark favorite drink in the later Tintin stories.
• Technology Marches On:
• In the original 1930s version of the story, the fireman used literal firewagons that they pulled by hand. When Hergé redrew the comic decades later for the English translation, he updated their vehicles to modern fire engines, complete with sirens...which can leave the reader wondering how the Fire Chief could possibly mix up the key for securing such important vehicles with the one for his wife's jam cupboard.
  • Later on, Tintin is shocked to enter a room and discover the source of the noises he heard is "...a television set!?!" It looks quite Hilarious in Hindsight to later readers, which is probably why the 1960s reprinting changed his line to "It's only a television set!"

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