The Crab with the Golden Claws is the ninth volume of
The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist
Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in , the children's supplement to , Belgium's leading francophone newspaper, from October 1940 to October 1941 amidst the
German occupation of Belgium during World War II. Partway through serialisation, was cancelled and the story began to be serialised daily in the pages of . The story tells of young Belgian reporter
Tintin and his dog
Snowy, who travel to
Morocco to pursue a gang of international opium smugglers.