L'Étoile mystérieuse
"The Shooting Star" was serialised daily in from 20 October 1941 to 21 May 1942 in French under the title ("The Mysterious Star"). Tintin's previous adventure, "The Crab with the Golden Claws", had been serialised weekly until the demise of ""'s children's supplement, , before continuing daily in the main newspaper itself; the earlier serial had ended the day before "The Shooting Star" began. "The Shooting Star" was the first "Tintin" adventure to be serialised daily in its entirety. As with earlier "Adventures of Tintin", the story was later serialised in France in the Catholic newspaper "Cœurs Vaillants", where it first appeared on 6 June 1943.