红海鲨鱼 (1958)

《货舱里的黑幕》（法语：Coke en stock，港台译《红海黑幕》，大陆旧译《红海鲨鱼》），是比利时漫画家艾尔吉创作的丁丁历险记漫画系列的第19部作品。故事的主线是非洲的贩奴题材。该作品于1956年10月31日至1958年1月1日每周连载于比利时的《丁丁》杂志，并于1958年由卡斯特曼出版社以单行本形式出版。这部作品的最大特点是出现了大量丁丁历险记早期作品中的人物。

故事简介

为营救被叛军推翻的老朋友卡利斯本埃札布国王，丁丁和哈达克船长再临中东，途中不断被叛军步步狙击。好不容易从沙漠中找到了国王，丁丁却又发现支援叛军的戈贡左拉侯爵（实为拉斯泰波波罗斯），竟是卑鄙的奴隶贩子！为了撕破他丑恶的面具，丁丁在波涛汹涌的红海中不断遭到暗算，生命悬于一线！丁丁能否逃离险境？戈贡左拉的奸计又能否得逞？

价值观与主题分析

《红海黑幕》是《丁丁历险记》系列中少有的直接触及奴隶贸易议题的作品。故事借丁丁和阿道克船长的冒险，对非法的贩奴行为进行了深刻的揭露与鞭挞。

在这一作品中，埃尔热不仅延续了一贯的冒险精神，更通过拉斯泰波波罗斯这一角色，展示了人性中最阴暗的一面：贪婪、残忍与毫无底线。同时，故事中大量召唤早期人物的出场，也形成了一种“英雄集结”的叙事力量，象征着正义力量的团结与延续。

The Red Sea Sharks (French: Coke en stock) is the nineteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comic series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was initially serialised weekly in Belgium's Tintin magazine from October 1956 to January 1958 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1958. The narrative follows the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and his friend Captain Haddock as they travel to the fictional Middle Eastern kingdom of Khemed with the intention of aiding the Emir Ben Kalish Ezab in regaining control after a coup d'état by his enemies, who are financed by slave traders led by Tintin's old nemesis Rastapopoulos.

Following on from the previous volume in the series, The Calculus Affair, The Red Sea Sharks was created with the aid of Hergé's team of artists at Studios Hergé. Influenced by Honoré de Balzac's The Human Comedy, Hergé used the story as a vehicle in which to reintroduce a wide range of characters who had first appeared in earlier instalments of the series. The story dealt with the trade of enslaved Africans across the Arab world, specifically the Red Sea slave trade, which was ongoing at the time of its publication. However, in the 1960s the story generated controversy as Hergé was repeatedly accused of having portrayed the Africans in a racist manner. He was upset by these claims, and made alterations to the depiction of the Africans in later reprints. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with Tintin in Tibet, and the series as a whole became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. The Red Sea Sharks was critically well-received, with various commentators describing it as one of the best Tintin adventures. The story was adapted for both the 1991 Ellipse/Nelvana animated series The Adventures of Tintin and the 1992-3 BBC Radio 5 dramatisation of the Adventures.

Synopsis

In Brussels, Tintin and Captain Haddock bump into an old acquaintance, General Alcazar. Returning to Marlinspike Hall, they find that another acquaintance, the Emir of Khemed, Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab, has been overthrown by his nemesis Sheikh Bab El Ehr, and that the Emir has accordingly sent his son, the disobedient Abdullah, to stay at Marlinspike for his own protection. The police detectives Thomson and Thompson visit, informing Tintin that Alcazar is seeking to purchase military aircraft from J. M. Dawson. After further investigation, Tintin discovers that Dawson has also sold military aircraft to Bab El Ehr.

Realising that the only way to be rid of Abdullah is to restore the Emir's control of Khemed, Tintin, Haddock, and their dog Snowy travel to the Middle Eastern country. However, the trio narrowly survive a bomb planted aboard the plane to kill them as a result of Dawson discovering that Tintin spied on him. Meanwhile, a fight breaks out between Haddock, the angry man and Tintin. The pilot had ordered to make an emergency crash landing. With the fire now extinguished and the evacuation of passengers from a burning plane, the trio are able to slip into the city of Wadeshah unobserved. There they meet an old friend, the Portuguese merchant Oliveira da Figueira, who helps them to escape the city and ride on horseback to the Emir's hideout. During the journey, they evade armoured cars and fighter planes ordered to intercept them by "Mull Pasha", who is actually Tintin's old nemesis, Dr. Müller.