Sophocles Sarcophagus

Doctor Sophocles Sarcophagus is an Absent-minded Archaeologist, Songwriter and Children's Slapstick Comedy Playwright. He meets Tintin on a Cruise Ship at the beginning of Cigars of the Pharaoh and longs to find the Tomb of Pharaoh Kih-Oskh. He leads Tintin to the Tomb hidden under the Sand, but disappears soon after finding it. He, Tintin and Snowy end up in Sarcophagi in the middle of the Red Sea. Sophocles is then picked up with a Ship captained by Allan Thompson, a Drug Smuggler of the Kih-Oskh Brotherhood, whose gang uses the Tomb of Kih-Oshk as a Base. With Sophocles as a Prisoner, the Ship sets off for Inda.

After reaching India, Drug Smuggler Fakir hits him with a dart containing Rajaijah Juise. Even while he was sane, Sarcophagus seemed to be naive and clumsy. Tintin would later find Sophocles in the Indian Jungle painting the Symbol of Kih-Oskh on Palm Trees. When he was completely mad, he imagines himself to beb Pharaoh Rameses II. He and Zloty eventually remained friends with Tintin and Snowy.

In The Blue Lotus, still mad Sophocles decides to join Tintin, Snowy and Zloty to go to China to find the antidote for the Madness Poison founded by Fang Hsi-ying. He was the first to be cured and regains his sanity and shares it with Zioty. He is now one of Tintin's closest and bestest Friends in the on-going Books.