丁丁在美洲 (1932)

《丁丁在美洲》（法语：Tintin en Amérique，港台译《丁丁在美国》）是《丁丁历险记》的第三部作品。作者是比利时漫画家埃尔热。丁丁在美洲于1931年9月3日开始在比利时报刊二十世纪小伙伴上连载。1932年集结成册出版。1945年，进行彩色化，并精简重编为62页的标准格式。美国版于1973年出版。故事的舞台是在1930年代，黑帮与盗匪横行的美国城市芝加哥。

故事简介

从踏足芝加哥的第一刻开始，匪帮已经牢牢盯着丁丁，一心要除之而后快！一场接一场的正邪搏斗旋即展开，丁丁不断在鬼门关外徘徊：被绑架掳劫、被囚禁、被毒气弄昏、被投进水去淹死、被嫁祸吊死、甚至被缚在铁路轨上给火车碾过！见义勇为的丁丁与好拍挡米路如何逃过一次次的劫数？如何把匪帮头子一个个地绳之于法？

Tintin in America (French: Tintin en Amérique) is the third volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialized weekly from September 1931 to October 1932 before being published in a collected volume by Éditions du Petit Vingtième in 1932. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy who travel to the United States, where Tintin reports on organized crime in Chicago. Pursuing a gangster across the country, he encounters a tribe of Blackfoot Native Americans before defeating the Chicago crime syndicate.

Following the publication of Tintin in the Congo, Hergé researched a story set in the United States, desiring to reflect his concerns regarding the treatment of American Indian communities by the U.S. government. Bolstered by a publicity stunt, Tintin in America was a commercial success in Belgium and was soon republished in France. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with Cigars of the Pharaoh, and the series became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. In 1945, Tintin in America was re-drawn and colored in Hergé's ligne-claire style for republication by Casterman, with further alterations made at the request of his American publisher for a 1973 edition. The critical reception of the work has been mixed, with commentators on The Adventures of Tintin arguing that although it represents an improvement on the preceding two installments, it still reflects many of the problems that were visible in them. The story was adapted for both the 1976–77 West End play Tintin's Great American Adventure and the 1991 Ellipse/Nelvana animated series The Adventures of Tintin, which aired as the series finale.

Synopsis

In 1932, Tintin, a reporter for Le Petit Vingtième, goes with his dog Snowy on an assignment to Chicago, Illinois, to fight against the city's organised crime syndicate. While travelling by taxi, their taxi driver is held at gunpoint by police and the police hijack their taxi alongside Tintin and Snowy. Soon after arriving there, their taxi is collided by another car with Tintin being injured. Tintin and Snowy are kidnapped by gangsters and brought before Pietro and his mobster boss Al Capone, whose criminal enterprises in the Congo were previously thwarted by Tintin. With Snowy's help, Tintin subdues his captors, but as he goes to inform the police, they reject his claims, and the gangsters escape while Tintin is away. After surviving attempts on his life, Tintin meets Capone's rival Bobby Smiles, who heads the Gangsters' Syndicate of Chicago. After Smiles is held at gunpoint, Tintin falls down to the basement and smoke billows everywhere as Tintin collapses on to the ground. He is being rescued by Nick and they place an unconscious Tintin into Lake Michigan but regains consciousness. Tintin is unpersuaded by Smiles' attempt to hire him, and after Tintin orchestrates the arrest of his gang, Smiles escapes and heads west.