Alien Explorations: The Tintin triangle trail

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a.i) Discovery of an abandoned flight jacket and torn up note in "The Adventures of Tintin and The Black Island" (lower half of page 12, and upper half of page 13) (original publication 1938) by Hergé

Tintin after discovering a crashed plane, discovers a flight jacket in the nearby woodlands and a torn up piece of paper that when assembled shows a page of mysterious information with a triangle and this lead to a secret drop off point for a gang of money forgers

a.ii) Pieced together note with triangle

a.iii) A 1937 version of the illustrations from Le Petit Vingtième 26 which preceded the colour illustrations of the book, shows Tintin as he discovers a complete flight suit instead of just a jacket. The readers are invited to assemble the letter, and the pieces are shown against a black background,

Le Petit Vingtième 26, 1937

a.iv) Ripped note when given a black background becomes an asteroid field?

b) “The Sentinel” which was written by Arthur C Clarke in 1948 for a BBC competition (in which it failed to place) and was first published in the magazine "10 Story Fantasy" in its Spring 1951 issue, under the title “Sentinel of Eternity”, detailing the discovery of a crystal pyramid structure on the moon that turns out to be an ancient machine built by a mysterious unknown civilisation that continues to transmit a signal.

Eventually they break into it using atomic power and destroy the pyramid

c) the idea of pyramids of thorium, sometimes up to sixty feet wide and forty feet tall, discovered on an asteroid in Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet (1952) written by Harold L. Goodwin

d) Pyramid found in an underground world in the Moon from Tom Corbett Space Cadet #5 "The Smugglers on the Moon" February-April 1953. The pyramid turns out to be an arranged pile of blocks of radioactive fuel that lights up the cave like a sun.

e) Illustration references the landscape of the new world from the movie "When Worlds Collide" (film released 1951) by Chesley Bonestell?

f) Interplanetary map from The Smugglers of Callisto in Space Adventures 02 (Published September 1952) which possibly has nothing to do with the note containing the triangle once it was ripped up but seemed to help set he stage for interplanetary maps with asteroid fields

g) The discovery of a small three sided pyramid that is revealed later to be the cap stone of a pyramid discovered on the moon in "Tom Corbett - Space Cadet" view-master Pt1. MOON PYRAMID (1954)

g.ii) The discovery of the pyramid on the moon in "Tom Corbett - Space Cadet" view-master Pt1. MOON PYRAMID, scene six (1954)

h) Map of the asteroid belt where the treasure was to be found in the asteroid treasure hunt story from Tom Corbett Space Cadet #10 comic book (published for May to June 1954

Captain Hawk in the asteroid treasure hunt story from Tom Corbett Space Cadet #10 comic book (published for May to June 1954) perhaps is a substitute for Captain Haddock

i) “Planet lit by Antares and companion star.” by Chesley Bonestell, used for the cover of November 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

j) The idea of astronauts discovering something on a moon also showed up in a "Captain Quick And The Space Scouts" story "The Mystery on the moon of Mars" from Tom Corbett Space Cadet, May-June 1955. Instead of a small pyramid found on the moon, this time is was a scaled down flying saucer with miniature occupants. who had run out of fuel.

k) The Monolith on the moon from 2001 A Space Odyssey (Film released April 2, 1968)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, which in the earlier stages Kubrick looked at the idea of a tetrahedral pyramid form. See: Herge's Tintin and 2001: A Space Odyssey

l) Asterix and the Cauldron comic book novel (First published in French in 1969 and then in English 1976) written by Goscinny and illustrated by Uderzo