Tintin’s new puzzle.. is he really a girl?

COMIC book icon Tintin was actually a girl, a French philosopher claims.

Vincent Cespedes thinks the sleuth was a tomboy who wore male clothes to make her job easier – and was “probably asexual”.

And he believes Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who was known as Hergé and invented Tintin in 1929, dropped huge hints.

Cespedes, 44, points to Tintin putting on women’s clothing unnecessarily and his “long history of dealing with gender issues”.

And in a 1943 strip he shows “feminine” traits while looking after a drunken Captain Haddock.

Cespedes said: “Hergé would be hooting with laughter observing that, 30 years after his death, the world still believes his ‘tomboy’ is a real boy.”