# पूछे बेताल बताएँ आप,टिंकल के साथ

दोस्तों,चंदामामा के बारे में किसी को बताने की ज़रूरत नहीं है की वो किस प्रकार की पत्रिका थी,वो एक अनोखी पत्रिका थी जिसकी कहानियां भारतीय लोक कथाओं और प्राचीन इतिहास से प्रेरित थीं.चंदामामा की कहानियों के चित्र एक अनोखी अलौकिक दुनिया में पाठकों को सैर करवाते थे,ऐसा लगता था जैसे हम कोई राजा-रानी वाली प्राचीन एनीमेशन फिल्म देख रहे है.
चंदामामा में जो फीचर मुझे सबसे अधिक पसंद था वो था 'विक्रम-बेताल',इसकी कथाएँ उस समय एक अजीब सी सिहरन और रोमांच जगाती थी और कहानी में अंत तक उत्सुकता बनी रहती थी.बेताल का विक्रम से प्रश्न पूछना,विक्रम का जवाब देना और न बोलने की शर्त के भंग होते ही बेताल का वापस उड़ कर पेड़ पर चले जाना...और उस पर प्राचीन चित्र..सब मिला कर कहानी में एक ऐसी अबूझ दिलचस्पी पैदा कर देते थे जिसको वर्णन करने के लिए ठीक से शब्द नहीं मिल रहे.
तो दोस्तों,आज की पोस्ट उसी विक्रम-वेताल की कथा से ही जुडी है,कैसे?....आइये मिलकर जानते है.

 

















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#Comic World Draws Attention & Recent Hunt

Friends,first of all a good news for all of you.Your favorite blog Comic World has been mentioned today in Hindi edition of "Hindustan Times".Congrats and thanks to all supporters,friends,readers and visitor as without your support it was not possible for Comic World to attain this status.
The post over Novels,Sushma & Ved Prakash Sharma was discussed in detail in that article.Readers can read that article through this link "Article in 'Hindustan' on Comic World"
Here is a screen shot of that article for easy reference.





















Friends,i was out of station last weekend to attend wedding reception of one of my colleague,taking advantage of this opportunity i carried on with my usual comic hunt and found some good old comics.
Many of times i am asked by many of you that how and where to find old comics/novels.Well,
the best way to find these is to search at the old book shops as i use to do.Whenever i find chance to visit any city,i try to find addresses of old book shops of that city and try hard to visit those shops,same as i did this time.
Whereas my other friends,who were with me during this trip,were busy in utilizing their free time in marketing and shopping & i was searching religiously for comics in the fiercely scorching heat.Sweat was dripping like a open tap from my body but i was working hard to cover as many shops as possible within the available time frame.
Here are the scans of some of those comics/novels which i found during this hunt.This time i was searching for novels of Surendra Mohan Pathak,found none except this old one.I still haven't read it,can anyone throw some light over this particular novel!!




























Found a bunch of 1975's Chandamama sewed together,seems interesting read,will read and let you know.










































Do anyone remember this vintage ad of Poppins....




























Got a couple of Fauladi Singh,but in English......












































Also got these novels with eye catching covers.





























Normally i don't use to take Diamond comics of other than selected heroes but this time took few of these...



























Found this rare and early Manoj Chitra Katha,see the ad of 'Bahu Mange Insaaf' over its back cover page.



























Anupam,this last one is for your project,found a comic from this publication for the very first time.See if it can help you,for details pls drop a mail.

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Chandamama Archives

Good news for all Chandamama lovers in any language.!!
Here is the link for downloading Chandamama issues (1949-85) in any of its publication language (English,Hindi,Kannada,Malyalam,Tamil and Telgu) from its archives,which has been provided by a comic lover Vikas Gupta,all credit and thanks goes to him.




























Chandamama Archives Link

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