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* [[Pirate Booty]]: The title already indicates that the story is about the treasure of a pirate. Red Rackham and his pirates were introduced in the [[Tintin/Recap/The Secret of the Unicorn|The Secret of the Unicorn]].
* [[Ship Shape Shipwreck]]: Averted. The wreck of the Unicorn has decayed considerably.
* [[Treasure Map]]: Averted. While this is a treasure hunt story, the co-ordinates of the sunken ship are not part of a map. They are written on three parchments and have to be deciphered. The protagonists originally thought that the Sir Francis Haddock calculated them based on the Greenwich Meridian. Calculus correctly figures that the French naval officers under [[
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?/Comics|What Happened To The Mouse]]: Max Bird, the villain of the previous story, is mentioned to have escaped from prison. Thomson and Thompson suspect that the man is seeking revenge and could be hiding aboard the treasure-hunter's ship. That convinces the two officers to volunteer their services in this journey. In the end, this plot point seemingly just serves as an excuse to get Thomson and Thompson into the story. By the time the story concludes, there is nothing to indicate that Max was ever aboard the ship. Or even near it. The Thom(p)sons claim he was "discouraged by their presence". Max never appears in any later stories, either. His fate is never resolved.
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