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The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko #3
ম্যানিটোবা জাহাজের রহস্য
Hergé, creator of the world-wide sensation "Tintin", began this new series in 1935, about an adventuring pair of siblings, and their pet monkey. Although he would enjoy writing younger characters, with more vivid imaginations, the artist often found himself frustrated by the fact that - compared to his famous boy reporter - Jo and Zette had less freedom to travel, due to their being children.
52 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1952
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Hergé
1,027 books1,935 followersGeorges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist.
His best known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin comic book series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, leaving the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure Tintin and Alph-Art unfinished. His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe.
"Hergé" is the pseudonym of George Remí, making a game with the initials of his name inverted. Throughout the evolution of his star character, Tintin, we can see the progress of this author: from the first titles marked by the ultraconservative doctrine of the director of the newspaper Le Petit Vingtième, to the breaking of conventions embodied from The Blue Lotus , as well as the evolution of the society of his time. The research carried out by Hergé to historically contextualize his Adventures, as well as his implicit social criticism, have made Tintin a masterpiece of the 20th century.
Series on Goodreads:
* The Adventures of Tintin
* Quick & Flupke
* The adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko
His best known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin comic book series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, leaving the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure Tintin and Alph-Art unfinished. His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe.
"Hergé" is the pseudonym of George Remí, making a game with the initials of his name inverted. Throughout the evolution of his star character, Tintin, we can see the progress of this author: from the first titles marked by the ultraconservative doctrine of the director of the newspaper Le Petit Vingtième, to the breaking of conventions embodied from The Blue Lotus , as well as the evolution of the society of his time. The research carried out by Hergé to historically contextualize his Adventures, as well as his implicit social criticism, have made Tintin a masterpiece of the 20th century.
Series on Goodreads:
* The Adventures of Tintin
* Quick & Flupke
* The adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko
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October 24, 2025টিনটিনের স্রষ্টা হার্জ জো এবং জেট নামে নতুন চরিত্র নিয়ে এই সিরিজটা শুরু করেছিলেন। ওদের বয়স টিনটিনের কাছাকাছি, কাণ্ডকারখানাও তাই। এখানেও যথারীতি দেখা যায় এডভেঞ্চারে ঠাসা ঘটনাবলী। টিনটিনের মতো ওদেরও একটা পোষা প্রাণী আছে। এতো এতো মিল নিয়ে একই ধাচের হওয়া সত্ত্বেও এই সিরিজটা টিনটিনের জনপ্রিয়তার কিয়দংশও পায়নি।
টিনটিন যাদের পছন্দ তাদের খারাপ লাগার কথা নয়। বিশেষ করে আকা দৃশ্যগুলো বেশ চমৎকার।
টিনটিন যাদের পছন্দ তাদের খারাপ লাগার কথা নয়। বিশেষ করে আকা দৃশ্যগুলো বেশ চমৎকার।
October 17, 2012
Ternyata ingatan masa kecil memang kuat ya. Dulu saya pernah membaca buku ini saat di SD. Pada saat saya membaca lagi buku ini, saya ingat lanjutan semua gambar dan cerita tersebut bahkan sebelum halaman berikutnya saya buka. :-)
Bedanya sekarang, pertama: saya tidak se"excite" dibandingkan saat membacanya di waktu kecil dahulu (entah kenapa), dan kedua: formatnya yang lebih kecil membuat saya jadi sering memicingkan mata membaca huruf-huruf di buku ini (membaca dengan menggunakan kacamata plus, is not an option :-)).
Tetapi 4 bintang tidak apa-apa lah untuk kenangan masa kecil yang indah. :-)
Bedanya sekarang, pertama: saya tidak se"excite" dibandingkan saat membacanya di waktu kecil dahulu (entah kenapa), dan kedua: formatnya yang lebih kecil membuat saya jadi sering memicingkan mata membaca huruf-huruf di buku ini (membaca dengan menggunakan kacamata plus, is not an option :-)).
Tetapi 4 bintang tidak apa-apa lah untuk kenangan masa kecil yang indah. :-)
March 25, 2016
জো, জেট ও জোকো সিরিজ আগে কখনো পড়িনি। টিনটিন এর মতো দারুণ কিছু না। কিন্তু খারাপ লাগেনি।
April 4, 2022
Vuosina 1936-1938 ilmestynyt tuplaseikkailu "Manitoba ei vastaa" / Karamakon purkaus taitaa olla ensimmäinen Veikko, Tette ja Jykke -sarjan tarinoista. Lapset ja heidän apinaystävänsä törmäävät sattumalta moniin jännittäviin ja vaarallisiin tilanteisiin, jotka ovat kuin suoraan viihdekirjallisuuden kliseeoppaasta peräisin - menossa on mukana niin hulluja tiedemiehiä, sädeaseita, robotteja, kidnappauksia kuin purkautuvia tulivuoria. Kovin hyvin aikaa lastensarjakuva ei ole kestänyt, etenkin syrjäisellä saarella asuvan ihmissyöjäheimon kuvaus on nykymittapuulla avoimen rasistista.
September 17, 2023
Format Normal = D.L. 1er trimestre 1953; D. 1966/0053/258
->37 tome back = "01/1980 - 3f" edition
Read this first if you're a JZJ initiate because, despite being published as the third tome, it combines with the fourth to make the first story « Le Rayon du Mystère » of the series. I'm glad I already have the second half because, while being packed with action and gaffes, this is totally open≈ended≈dependant.
Despite being being so early in his career, released in 1939 weekly installments, his art already had the same clear-line refinement of the quality that would influence countless worldwide and define a huge percentage of Belgian bd for so many decades! (The first Tintin (USSR) is the only work of his that has a totally 'undrafted' look to me.)
->37 tome back = "01/1980 - 3f" edition
Read this first if you're a JZJ initiate because, despite being published as the third tome, it combines with the fourth to make the first story « Le Rayon du Mystère » of the series. I'm glad I already have the second half because, while being packed with action and gaffes, this is totally open≈ended≈dependant.
Despite being being so early in his career, released in 1939 weekly installments, his art already had the same clear-line refinement of the quality that would influence countless worldwide and define a huge percentage of Belgian bd for so many decades! (The first Tintin (USSR) is the only work of his that has a totally 'undrafted' look to me.)
hergé-revisited
November 9, 2025Rather than spend some £600 on the rare English edition, I got hold of PDFs of both the black and white edition of the original 1936/7 story and the re-drawn/colourised 1952 edition and read it with google lens to translate from the French!
It was originally published in Le Petit Vingtième newspaper with red and green half tone colouring but the black and white edition (2003) loses that in favour of just the line work and some grey half tones.
I think the original versions were not originally collected as albums as the black and white Tintin adventures were, only in weekly newspapers.
As with the Tintin books from that period the 50s colour version doesn't change the drawing style. Minor edits are made to the structure and some background elements are added. Hergé may not have had the same passion for these stories as he had for Tintin but the quality of the art is still high and allows him to play in a world inspired partly by Jules Verne. The story is basic and follows the same Tintin formula from the time where the protagonists just go from one scrape to another. The villain is yet another of Hergé's mad scientists, which is fun.
It was originally published in Le Petit Vingtième newspaper with red and green half tone colouring but the black and white edition (2003) loses that in favour of just the line work and some grey half tones.
I think the original versions were not originally collected as albums as the black and white Tintin adventures were, only in weekly newspapers.
As with the Tintin books from that period the 50s colour version doesn't change the drawing style. Minor edits are made to the structure and some background elements are added. Hergé may not have had the same passion for these stories as he had for Tintin but the quality of the art is still high and allows him to play in a world inspired partly by Jules Verne. The story is basic and follows the same Tintin formula from the time where the protagonists just go from one scrape to another. The villain is yet another of Hergé's mad scientists, which is fun.
February 15, 2023
okay, this one is better than the last one. This book has Herge's classic illustrations as the Tintin series. The story wasn't interesting as the first book (Mr. Pumps Legacy), but somehow this one is readable. Jocko's comic scenes are better here. I enjoyed the Mad Scientist character, but the book felt little shorter than first two books of this series.
January 7, 2023
I enjoyed this story more than the first two books. The only down side was that it is part of 2 episode set. This is the second book of that set, but it was a nice conclusion to the story and was glad that I didn't have to wait after finishing the previous book.
June 27, 2018
Has its charms, for sure. Also for sure has some serious problematics.
October 9, 2018
টিনটিনের মতো এই সিরিজেরও ভক্ত হয়ে গেলাম। কী থ্রিলিং! অ্যার্জের ট্রেডমার্ক অ্যাডভেঞ্চার! তবে শেষটা আরো ভালো হতে পারতো।
March 18, 2021
Příběh už se víc soustředí na sourozeneckou dvojici a jejich dobrodružství. Celkově lepší než první dvojpříběh a srovnatelné s Tintinem.
May 16, 2022
Aika rajusti aika ajanut ohi tästä, mutta hyvin tulee mieleen pentuna lueskellut poikakirjat. Samanlaisia kliseitä viliseviä seikkailujan nekin olivat.
June 2, 2024
The first half was pretty fun but then it got super racist.
December 8, 2021
Inte så dålig som många tycker.
July 7, 2012
In 1935, between working on The Blue Lotus and The Broken Ear, Hergé was approached by Father Courtois, the director of the French weekly newspaper Coeurs Vaillants. The paper already carried Tintin, but Courtois also wanted a strip that would depict the solid family values and situations that the seemingly orphaned boy reporter was devoid of. He also presumably wanted something less subversive than the mischievous, trouble-making working-class boy rascals Quick and Flupke.
He needed a set of characters that would typify a good, normal family: A working father, a housewife and mother, young boy, a sister, even a pet. Apparently inspired by a toy monkey called Jocko, Hergé devised the family Legrand. Jacques was an engineer, and his son Jo and daughter Zette were average kids; bright, brave, honest, smart and yet still playful. Mother stayed home, cooking and being concerned a lot, and they had a small, feisty monkey for a pet name Jocko.
The Le Manitoba ne repond plus is the first adventure of two from The Secret Ray, which is not currently available in English. A ripping yarn of scientific bandits, gangsters, mad professors, robots and, regrettably, some rather ethnically unsound incidences of cannibal savages, this is very much a product of its time in too many respects. Although Hergé came to deeply regret (and wherever possible amend) his many early uses of that era’s racial stereotyping, the island dwelling natives will now always be controversial.
He needed a set of characters that would typify a good, normal family: A working father, a housewife and mother, young boy, a sister, even a pet. Apparently inspired by a toy monkey called Jocko, Hergé devised the family Legrand. Jacques was an engineer, and his son Jo and daughter Zette were average kids; bright, brave, honest, smart and yet still playful. Mother stayed home, cooking and being concerned a lot, and they had a small, feisty monkey for a pet name Jocko.
The Le Manitoba ne repond plus is the first adventure of two from The Secret Ray, which is not currently available in English. A ripping yarn of scientific bandits, gangsters, mad professors, robots and, regrettably, some rather ethnically unsound incidences of cannibal savages, this is very much a product of its time in too many respects. Although Hergé came to deeply regret (and wherever possible amend) his many early uses of that era’s racial stereotyping, the island dwelling natives will now always be controversial.
February 22, 2017
Je ne m’habitue pas au manque de réaliste comparativement aux albums de Tintin. Jo, un enfant, est capable de piloter des appareils encore tout juste inventés (avion, engin amphibie). De plus, j’ai des doutes qu’ils aient pu se retrouver en plein Atlantique après avoir joué dans une barque sur le bord de l’eau. Ils prennent du poids, mais le perd la case suivante. Certaines bulles contiennent beaucoup de texte ce qui donne de petits cratères pas toujours faciles à lire. L’histoire, quoique rocambolesque, on y retrouve plusieurs éléments réutilisés par Hergé : le professeur qui devient fou, la base sous-marine, les tribus africaines et les chutes dans les escaliers. Il demeure tout de même divertissant et on prend plaisir à le lire.
April 4, 2012
Meskipun sudah punya terbitan Indira-nya, yang pakai nama Yo Susi dan Yokko itu, tapi karena komiknya sudah lecek banget jadinya beli lagi terbitan GPU yang pakai nama aslinya ini, Jo Zette dan Jocko.
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July 18, 2013Great that Ananda has translated these into Bangla, they're a treat!
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