Prisoners of the Sun (French: Le Temple du Soleil) is the fourteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock continue their efforts to rescue the kidnapped Professor Calculus, through Andean villages, mountains, and rain forests, before finding a hidden Inca civilization in the Temple of the Sun. The story was first serialized in Tintin magazine from 26 September 1946 to 22 April 1948 before being published in book form the following year. Prisoners of the Sun is the second volume in a two-part adventure begun in The Seven Crystal Balls (1948). The two books were adapted into a 1969 film, Tintin and the Temple of the Sun by Belvision. It has been also adapted into two episodes of the 1990s television series The Adventures of Tintin, a video game, and a musical stage production. In the previous adventure, The Seven Crystal Balls, the Sanders-Hardiman expedition members have been afflicted with a m. …