The Black Island (French: L'Île Noire) is the seventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Tintin travels to Great Britain, where he is framed for a theft, hunted by detectives Thomson and Thompson, and is on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters. Hergé's Franco-Belgian comic was first serialized in black and white in Le Petit Vingtième, children's supplement to the conservative newspaper Le XXe Siècle, from 15 April 1937 to 16 June 1938, then published into a volume later that year. Five years later, in 1943, it was redrawn into a new colour version. Over two decades later, in 1966, Hergé and his team updated the work again. While walking in the Belgian countryside, Tintin sees an unregistered plane making an emergency landing, but when he goes over to help, he is shot by the pilot. He wakes up in hospital the next morning, when Thomson and Thompson visit and tell him that an unregistered plane had crashed in Eastdown in Sus...