The Seven Crystal Balls
"Prisoners of the Sun" was the first of "The Adventures of Tintin" to be serialised in its entirety in the new "Tintin" magazine. On the magazine's launch day of 26 September 1946, readers who had been without Tintin for two years now received two pages per week in full colour under the title "" ("The Temple of the Sun"). It began on what is now page 50 of the previous book "The Seven Crystal Balls" and included two pages outlining the crystal ball mystery, presented as if it were a press cutting. With Jacobs, Hergé completed the cover of the first issue and finished off "The Seven Crystal Balls" prior to embarking on "Prisoners of the Sun", although Hergé included both under the title of "The Temple of the Sun". To lessen his workload, a portion of the two pages of Hergé's strip was an explanatory block of text about Inca society, titled "Qui étaient les Incas?" ("Who were the Incas?"). Covering issues such as geography, history, and religion, each block was signed in Tintin's name.