Jacob Balthazar

Jacob Balthazar is a posthumous major character in the 1943 Tintin comic book The Broken Ear and it's 1991 TV adaptation. He is the creator of an imitation of the Arumbayan idol for Alonso Perez and Ramon Bada, before he was assassinated by Rodrigo Tortilla so he can keep him quiet.
==Appearance==
He was a man with a black mustache and a suit with a red tie. The rest of his features is unknown as he only appeared as a statue in the comic.
==Biography==
Before the events of The Broken Ear, he created an imitation of the Idol of the Broken Ear for Ramon Bada and Alonso Perez. However, he is later killed by Rodrigo Tortilla, who makes it look like an accident by turning on a gas pipe, but Tortilla also gets murdered by Alonso Perez and Ramon Bada while he was on his way to his home country of San Theodoros. Molly, a parrot originally owned by Balthazar, survived and gave Tintin a clue telling that his previous owner's death wasn't an accident.
==Trivia==
*Despite only appearing as a statue, he had a large impact in the story, as he is the one who created copies of the real Arumbaya idol before Tortilla murdered him and posthumously having his parrot tell the one who murdered him to Tintin.
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