The Crab with the Golden Claws (French: Le Crabe aux pinces d'or) is the ninth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Tintin follows a gang of opium smugglers to Morocco. Hergé's Franco-Belgian comic was first serialized in black and white in Le Soir Jeunesse, children's supplement to Belgium's leading newspaper Le Soir, from 17 October 1940 to 18 October 1941, then published into a volume later that year. Two years later, in 1943, it was redrawn into a new colour version. The book is notable for its introduction of main character Captain Haddock. Tintin is informed by Thomson and Thompson of a case involving the ramblings of a drunken man, later killed, found with a scrap of paper from what appears to be a tin of crab-meat with the word Karaboudjan scrawled on it. His subsequent investigation and the kidnapping near his apartment of a Japanese man interested in giving a letter to him leads Tintin to a ship called Karaboudjan, wher.. …