Comic Hero Tintin Nets $1.3 Million in Auction at Drouot-Montaigne

PARIS.- A life-size bronze statue of comic book reporter Tintin and more than 200 other items linked to the diminutive globetrotter have fetched more than euro1 million ($1.3 million) at a Paris auction. The most expensive lot was two inked and water-painted original panels from the 1938 “King Ottokar’s Sceptre” album, which went for euro243,750 ($299,620). The bronze statue, showing Tintin with his hands in his pockets and dog Snowy at his side, went for euro 125,000 ($153,650) in the [...]