Comic hero Tintin nets $1.3 million in auction (AP)

Mayo 30th, 2010 | Filed under Entertainment.

A porter displays a watercolor, named 'Tintin and the sea shells' drawn by Belgian creator Herge during the auction of rare memorabilia of Tintin, at the Drouot auction's house, in Paris, Saturday May 29, 2010. The panel was sold for euro105,000 ($129,000). (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP – 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 (EURO)1 million ($1.3 million) at a Paris auction.

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