# 4th Anniversary Post

Friends,4th February this year Comic World completes four year of its journey which commenced on 4th of Feb.2007,which indeed is a long time for a blog and specially for a comic blog as its quite difficult to maintain the same enthusiasm and pace of posting with comics throughout the year(s).

Though this blog was brought into picture primarily to share Indrajal comics and memories related with comics with other fellow comic lovers but with due course of time it managed to share information about comics,movies and other interesting topics and prolonged its life.

It has been mentioned many times on each anniversary post that how and why this blog was created,so those who are interested in reading the story behind it can go through this link.
The first comic of this 4th anniversary post is a vintage Madhumuskan scanned and edited by me which i hope all of you will like.

Download MM-159


Madhumuskan was a publication of Kapoor brothers of Delhi and it was quite popular because of humorous features by Jagdish Ji,Harish Sudan and Hussain Zamin.It ran into more than 25 years of publication and slowly slowly met with the same fate to which the other publications met eventually.

The most awaited comic/strip of this post is 'Daud' written by great artist Abid Surti and illustrated by late Pratap Mulick.This Inspector Azad strip was that story of which showman Raj kapoor was very much impressed and planned to make a film which unfortunately couldn't be canned due to those certain circumstances which Abid Ji still regrets about.
Duad is a hide and seek thriller where Inspector Azad is chased by dacoit Parbat singh in a thrilling encounter.What happens next you yourself read here.

 

Daud first appeared at a weekly basis in Illustrated weekly of India and later it was distributed by AFI features in a complete strip format which is being presented here for all of you and for which i wish to say thanks to a dear friend Usman Bhai because of whom i get access to this strip and was able to present it here,hence all credit goes to Usman Bhai only.

Before moving on to our next comic lets watch these vintage ads taken from The Illustrated Weekly Of India.

Remember this dinesh ad featuring Sunil Gawaskar....

and this Ravi Shastri ad of 'Only Vimal'.........


Perhaps the below article is the very first article which Sachin Tendulkar contributed for any magazine.It has been taken from a 1990 Illustrated Weekly issue.

Coming on to our next two comics which are contributed by a long time friend Ajay Misra for this special occasion for which many thanks and all credit to him.
The first one is FREW which Phantom lover will like for sure....

Download Frew No.786

and the other comic is vintage Pan Singh comic from Madhumuskan comics,'Paan Singh Aur Bhediya Manav'.

Download Pan Singh Aur Bhediya Manav





See the cartoon....remember anything something comical!

Can you recognize the person(on the right) in this image...

What about this vintage superstar Rajesh Khanna ad from a old issue of Illustrated Weekly..

Next comic is a friendly gift from a friend Mohit who runs a comic community(Vintage Collection) where lot of old Hindi comics are posted at a regular basis,Mohit bhai's dedication and love for comics is clap-worthy as well as his devotion towards preservation of Indian comics.Many thanks to Mohit Bro for this comic.I hope Vishal Bro will now be more than happy.

 Download Tadap Uthi Maut

There is another Manoj Chitra Katha in big size which is contributed by another avid comic lover and collector Saurabh bhai who being a doctor loves to postmortem these old comics regularly.Many thanks Saurabh Bhai for this comic.

Download Registan Ka Khazana



Have anyone seen young Dada in such a pensive mood.....

How about these strips from Illustrated Weekly issues.....

After a long time i am posting a Hindi IJC whose English title is 'The Gladiator' issue no.151 which was a Indrajal version of Daily No.107. 

दोस्तों आज हम पढ़ेंगे वेताल की एक और रोमांचक कथा(वैसे तो फाल्क रचित सभी कहानियां बेहद रोचक ही हैं) जिसका नाम है 'पाषाण पुरुष'(पत्थर का आदमी).आमतौर से यह देखा गया है की वो वेताल कथाएँ जो वेताल वृतांतों या अस्वाभाविक कथानकों(सामारिस,गुली-गुली चुड़ैल आदि)पर आधारित होती थीं वो सामान्य से अधिक रोचक होती थीं.

यह कथा एक अन्य कथा 'सामारिस' से काफ़ी मिलती जुलती है क्योंकि दोनों में ही कहानी का मुख्य किरदार एक शाप से पीड़ित था जिसके चलते उसे लम्बी आयु का वरदान मिला हुआ था और दोनों की चरित्रों का अंत एक ही तरीके से हुआ था लेकिन जहाँ तक सामारिस की कहानी वास्तविक रूप से घटित होते बताई गई थी वहीँ प्रस्तुत कहानी में यह साफ़ नहीं किया गया है की वेताल के साथ यह सब कुछ हकीक़त में घटित हुआ था या वेताल कोई सपना देख रहा था.

इस कहानी के प्लाट का तानाबाना बड़े ही प्रभावपूर्ण और रहस्यपूर्ण तरीके से रोम की प्राचीनकालीन कथाओं के इर्द-गिर्द बुना गया है जिसमे एक gladiator का वेताल से सामना होता है जो एक निर्दोष संत को रोमन-सम्राट की आज्ञा पर क़त्ल करने पर आत्माविहीन कीड़े जैसा जीवन जीने हेतु शापित है.

इस लड़ाके को शाप मिला है की जब तक वो किसी अन्य योद्धा के हाथों मारा नहीं जाता है वो जीवित रहेगा लेकिन पत्थर के जिस्म के साथ.यह लड़ाका निकल पड़ता है किसी ऐसे योद्धा को ढूँढने जो उससे ताक़तवर हो और उसे हरा सके,सदियाँ बीत जाती हैं उसे लड़ते हुए लेकिन खुद से ताक़तवर उसे कोई नहीं मिलता,उसने इस गलीज़ ज़िन्दगी को ख़त्म करने की कई कोशिशें की लेकिन कुछ हासिल-वसूल नहीं,वो आग में जला,पानी में डूबा,ज़हरीले कीड़ों से भी कटवाया यहाँ तक की गोली-बंदूकों का भी कोई असर नहीं पर तब तक जब तक उसका सामना वेताल से नहीं हुआ था.

अपनी इस मनहूस ज़िन्दगी से आजिज़ आकर वो अपने रास्ते में आने वाले हर मनुष्य-जानवर से भिड़ता है और उन्हें ख़त्म करता जाता है और इस दौरान उसका सामना वेताल से होता है जिसके हाथो मात खाकर उसका श्राप ख़त्म होता है.

दोस्तों,इस लड़ाके की क्या कहानी थी और वेताल उसे कैसे हराता है यह सब आप जान सकेंगे इस कॉमिक को पढने के बाद जिसकी विशिष्टता है इसका अद्भुत कथानक.

Download Indrajal No.151

QUIZ

Friends on this marking occasion a special quiz has been prepared for all of you by participating in which you can win 10(ten) no. of hard copies of comics.How it works..lets know.

Well,friends you have to answer the 10 questions according to the instruction given below in the quiz and any one comic lover who will answer first all 10 questions correctly within the stipulated time limit will be eligible to win 10 comics.

If one couldn't answer all 10 question correctly then still there is chance to win and he/she will win the same no. of comics as many correct answer he gives.Suppose a participator gives 8 correct answers out of 10 before than anyone else then he will win 8 comics.

Details of these comics i am not divulging at the moment but all will be old comics consisting of Amar Chitra Katha,Manoj comics,Indrajal comics etc.These comics will of my choice and i will be bearing the shipping(by regd.post) charges only within India,mean if any person who happens to live outside India wins the quiz then he will have to bear the postal charges.  

ANNIVERSARY POST QUIZ

NOTE:Attempt any 10 questions,each question carry equal no. of comics.

Time Duration:Till 14th Feb.2011,12 pm(IST) 

Q.No.1  
Diamond comics used to publish Filmi Chitra Katha in which a film story was presented in comic format using B/W(sometimes color too) stills taken from that very movie.Apart from Diamond comic one other publication house ventured into that genre.

(a)  Name that publication house and  

(b) Name that movie of which comic was published for the very first time in color  by Diamond comics publication

(hint:The name of that very movie has been mentioned in one of the post of Comic World itself) 

                                                   OR

Identify these two famous personalties:

 (a)

  

(b)

Q.No.2.  
(a) What is the similarity between Dabu,Dhabbuji and Phantom?

(b) (i) Manglu Madari and Bandar Bihari(created by Shehaab) were initially two separate characters.(TRUE/FALSE)
(ii) Which of the following characters were NOT created by Shehaab:
     Chhotu-Lambu,Chimpu,Chaman Charlie,Chitera,Manglu Madari,Gunakar.
(iii) Name the odd person out:
      H.I.Pasha,Hussain Zamin,Qaisar Sultana,Ansar Akhtar,Ibrahim Asrarvi
(iv) Shehaab did designed some covers for Indrajal comics(TRUE/FALSE)
(v)  Which of these illustrator possess striking resemblance in working style with Shehaab
      Alok Bhargava,Khalil Khan,Neerad.




Q.No.3
Identify the no.(Sunday/Daily) of this Phantom strip

Q.No.4.
Identify this hero who is so fond of Indrajal comic.

Q.No.5
Famous writer of Bal Pocket Books S.C.Bedi also created a comic character,name the character and the comic publication in which that character was published.

Friends half the paper is over and before moving to remaining questions lets take a 'comic break' after which we will be coming back to quiz.

Lets read the very first issue of Superman in Hindi which was published DC(gotham comics) along with another Superman comics(English) which was published by Star comics.

Download Superman(Gotham Comics)

Download Superman(Star comics)

Q.No.6

(i) A character appeared in Manoj comics used to resemble film star Dharmendra.Name the character and its illustrator.
(ii) Famous illustrator Jagdish Bharati created a character duo on the backdrop of 1857 first war of Independence.Name those two characters.
(iii) Who was very first Indian superhero comic character and who was its creator.

Q.No.7
Identify these personalities related with Indian comics

(a) 

(b)

(c)

 

(d)

(e)

Q.No.8
(i) Name the writer who created Nagraj.
(ii) Who was the writer of Amar-Akbar series of Manoj Chitra Katha/comics.
(iii) Identify these illustrators
 (a)

(b)

(c)

Q.No.9

Identify the illustrators of these comic pages

 (a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Q.No.10
Name that post on this blog
(i) Which has got the maximum no. of comments till 3rd Feb.2011
(ii) Which has got minimum no. of comment till 3rd Feb.2011


Q.No.11
There is one odd name in each question and rest names have some similarity with each other which that odd name doesn't have,name that odd name out:
(i) Ray Moore,Sy Barry,Fred Fredricks,Olesen/Williams,Ryan,De Paul
(ii) Raj Kapoor,Bobby Deol,Amitabh Bachchan
(iii) Premnath,Mithun Chakravorty,Bobby Deol,Shatrughan Sinha
(iv) Van Putr Shalu,Minni,Daddy Ji,Mashinilal-Afeemilaal,Sustram-Chustram
(v) Pratap Mulick,Raam waaerkar,Dilip Kadam,Shankar,Harvinder Mankad,Bimal Chatterji


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