Dr. J.W. Müller

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Dr. J.W. Müller is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. He is a villainous doctor, whose first appearance was in The Black Island as director of a psychiatric clinic (which he also used to dispose of his enemies by giving them a "treatment" making them insane), which was his cover for his activities as member of a group counterfeiting banknotes. His chauffeur Ivan is also a member of the gang; the name implies that Ivan is a White Russian, exiled by the Bolshevik revolution.

In Tintin The Complete Companion, author Michael Farr suggested that this version of Muller was based on Georg Bell, a British adventurer who was an associate of Nazi leader Ernst Röhm. Bell later fell out with the Nazis and was murdered by them in 1933.

Müller's next appearance was in Land of Black Gold as Professor Smith -- working once more to destabilize the world economy and contaminate British fuel supplies in the Middle East (in fact the original story, published in 1940, was set in the British Mandate of Palestine. Later editions moved it to the fictional state of Khemed).

Müller's final return was in The Red Sea Sharks under the pseudonym Mull Pasha, where he had assumed the role of an advisor to the usurper regime in Khemed, a clear allusion to British General John Bagot Glubb. In this story Müller is just one of a munber of Tintin's enemies, including Dawson from The Blue Lotus and Allan Thompson, linked to the main villain Rastapopoulos.

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