Tintin cover makes £500,000

A world record price for a comic-strip illustration was paid at a specalist sale at Artcurial in Paris on March 29: Georges Remi Hergé’s 1932 ink-and-gouache design for the cover of Tintin en Amérique.

In excellent condition, this is one of only five gouache designs by Hergé for Tintin book covers and…

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