Posted AT 7:42 AM EDT on 07/12/04
Ouch! Researchers tackle Tintin's traumas
The swashbuckling comic-book hero and boy-journalist extraordinaire Tintin is ageless, and now researchers know the reason why.It appears that his perennially prepubescent look is due to a growth-hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, conditions likely brought on by repeated blows to the head.
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