There are many two-part Tintin stories, but The Seven Crystal Balls & Prisoners of the Sun (methinks the original French title would more accruately translate as Temple of the Sun) in that The Seven Crystal Balls is not even remotely a self-contained story. There is a significant shift in setting 'twixt the two albums, but the first volume has no whiff of a conclusion. Explorers on the Moon follows directly from Destination Moon & The Blue Lotus follows directly from Cigars of the Pharaoh, but each of those first installments stands alone. Left on its own, The Seven Crystal Balls doesn't so much end as it does simply run out of pages.
Recently
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 5 (contains Land of Black Gold, Destination Moon, & Explorers on the Moon)
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 1 (contains Tintin in America, Cigars of the Pharaoh, & The Blue Lotus)
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 2 (contains The Broken Ear, The Black Island, & King Ottokar's Spectre)
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 3 (contains The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Shooting Star, & The Secret of the Unicorn)
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 4 (contains Red Rackham's Treasure, The Seven Crystal Balls, & Prisoners of the Sun)
Currently
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 6 (contains The Calculus Affair, The Red Sea Sharks, & Tintin in Tibet)
Presently
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 7 (contains The Castafiore Emerald, Flight 714 to Sydney, & Tintin and the Picaros)
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