# 6th Anniversary Post

Friends today is 6th anniversary of the this blog which was created in 2007 to cherish and revive the love for comics and specially Indrajal comics which later on diverted towards multiple fields such as writing about movies,reviewing novels/films and discussion over magazines and comics in general.

I was thinking of to post something befitting to the occasion but it couldn't happened due to some unavoidable adverse and compelling conditions because of which i am away from my work place and away from net also due to which at the moment i am unable to post something of the likes of which was being expected from comic world.

Hence for the sake of continuation the tradition of anniversary post this time i am able to post a comic only which is contributed by Vishal bhai for which tons of thanks to him,and also i promise to post something big and befitting once i am at peace and in situation to do so.

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# शहरी सभ्यता का आलोचक वेताल

दोस्तों इस पोस्ट के मेहमान लेखक हैं दिनेश श्रीनेत जो मीडिया में एक जाना-माना नाम है।  

गोरखपुर में जन्मे दिनेश कथाकार और पेशे से पत्रकार हैं। आजकल दैनिक 'अमर उजाला' में बतौर वरिष्ठ प्रबंधक कार्यरत हैं। इंद्रजाल कॉमिक्स से दिनेश को बचपन से लगाव रहा है और इंद्रजाल कॉमिक्स में प्रकाशित चुनिन्दा कहानियों पर दिनेश गाहे-बगाहे हम सब के साथ तब्सिरा करते रहते हैं और ऐसे ही एक तब्सरे का मरकज़ बनने का शर्फ़ आज कॉमिक वर्ल्ड को हासिल हुआ है जिसके लिए कॉमिक वर्ल्ड के पाठकों की तरफ से दिनेश जी को बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद।  

गाज़ियाबाद में कार्यरत दिनेश श्रीनेत फिल्म विधा पर आधारित एक ब्लॉग भी लिखते हैं जिसका नाम है इंडियन बॉयस्कोप। 

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# 5th Anniversary Post

Friends a warm welcome to all of you at this special occasion which is the 5th anniversary of this blog.A whole five years have been elapsed since Comic World came into existence on blogosphere with a motive behind to share and discuss the comics,specially Indrajal comics,with all of you. 

In 2007,debut year of the blog,a total of 87 posts were posted in a span of one year in which mostly were Indrajal comics and that too dual version of a single issue.After arrival of 2008 several other comic blogs came into existence too with a purpose of sharing Indrajal comics as a result the no. of posts reduced to 43 in its 2nd year.


The depletion of limited quota of 803 IJC at a quick rate made me think that what will be the future of blog after all IJC issues will be posted ! This concern made me to switch over to other non-IJC comics and my passion associated with comics in general made me to discuss/post more and more about comics,novels,magazine which added a variety and difference to this blog.The posting frequency,though,decreased but the colors and variations did certainly added. 


In the meantime i steered towards my other passion movies also which prompted me to prepare posts on movies like SHOLAY,talented but defunct directors and popular film magazines too which was appreciated by all of you.


Once moved away from mere comic posting it further disinterested me to post comic links only and i started looking upon any such opportunity which inspired me to discuss/share something meaningful along with comic links,thus trading of with the posting frequency.The no. of post per year reduced further but selectivity and variety increased accordingly.


Of late i discovered the opportunity of doing something that which i was longing from a long time,i.e.,discussing in detail about the comparative study between original Phantom strips and published Indian comic books over these strips such as Indrajal and Diamond comics.


These comparative analysis were also liked and quite appreciated by all of you to my satisfaction and served as a inspiring force behind another dream project of mine,i.e.,conversion of all non-Indrajal Phantom strips in Hindi,about which more i will discussing in coming paragraphs.


The blog which was initiated to revive and rekindle passion for Indrajal comics in particular ignited the passion for comics in general and morphed me into a avid comic collector of bygone comics beginning with Indrajal comics and followed by manoj chitra katha,
diamond,chitrbharti,kiran,star comics,amar chitra katha etc to name a few.
Days,months and years passed resulting in growing up of my collection which time to time i did displayed in several posts too.


During the 5 year journey of this blog it happened to interact with finest passionate comic collector/readers all over the world.In beginning the regular visitors were mainly the IJC lover and collectors like Ajay Misra,ICC,TPH,Chandan,Sagnik,Col.Worobu,Bala,Anurag Dixit etc to name a few,and when the focus shifted to comics,magazines and novels in general then avid comic readers like Kuldeep jain,Arun,Lalit,Vijat Kr.Sappatti,Anand emerged with their appreciative knowledge base and nostalgic writing skills.


One of the major achievement during this journey proved to be the mentioning of Comic World in Indian leading daily The Hindustan Times which highlighted and appreciated the different nature and quality of this blog.


Since then the journey is still ON despite of daily life hectic schedule and other priorities of life but missing certainly that much level of enthusiasm which was earlier,anyway lets see till when this journey could be continued through this blog.


So,after the preface lets begin this special anniversary post welcoming all of you by a comicoanalysis of a Indrajal comic which was the main inspiring force behind the formation of the blog.
This comic,'Dayalu Pret'(IJC No.321) is scanned,analysed and posted by a dear friend and fantastic comic lover cum collector Vishal Sharma in his unique posting style which is similar to a poet singing heroic ballads.
For his unmatched style of posting all credit for this comic along with a heartfelt thanks goes to him.   


"Dayalu Pret"(By Vishal sharma)

(Cover Courtesy : Zaheer Bhai)

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# वाकुल दुर्ग का रहस्य

UPDATE(24th May):2nd part of 'Vakul Durg Ka Rehasya' also uploaded.

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दोस्तों प्रस्तुत है वेताल के सबसे ज़्यादा लोमहर्षक कथाओं में से एक "वाकुल दुर्ग का रहस्य" जो की इंद्रजाल कॉमिक्स द्वारा 1980 में प्रकाशित की गई थी.

इस कॉमिक की ख़ास बात ये है की या एकलौती ऐसी Swedish कहानी है जिसने इंद्रजाल कॉमिक्स के पन्नो में जगह पाई,और दूसरी बात,ये उन चंद कथाओं में से एक है जो ली-फाल्क की कलम से जन्म न लेने के बावजूद रोमांच और स्तर में किसी भी दूसरी फाल्क वेताल-कथा से पीछे नहीं है.
ऐतिहासिक घटनाओ की पृष्ठभूमि में कहानी बुनने की फाल्क की ख़ासियत का लेखक 'नॉर्मन वर्कर' ने भी अनुसरण किया है और कार्पेटिया एवं ऑस्ट्रिया के बीच हुई जंग के कैनवस पर इस कहानी में रंग भरे हैं.

कथा कुछ ऐसे शुरू होती है,ऑस्ट्रिया ने जबरन कार्पेटिया को कब्ज़ाये रखा है,बाद में बोस्निया एवं हर्ज़ेगोविना को कब्ज़े में लेने की लिए कार्पेटिया से सैनिक बुलाये जाते हैं,मौका देख कर स्थानीय अवाम पुराने शासक एवं वाकुल दुर्ग के मालिक काउंट स्टायरबाश के नेतृत्व में विद्रोह कर देती है जिसको कुचलने के लिए कार्पेटिया व ऑस्ट्रिया के मध्य युद्ध होता है.मैदान काउंट के हाथ आता है पर भीषण लड़ाई और काफी नुकसान के बाद,घायलों और कमज़ोर सैनिकों को लूटने के लिए अंतर्राष्ट्रीय मुजरिम संगठन 'गिद्ध' नज़रें गड़ाए बैठा था पर इस बार गिद्ध के मंसूबे कुछ और ही थे,बुरी तरह थके सैनिकों और घायल काउंट की अवस्था का फायदा उठा कर गिद्ध का मुखिया ब्लैक बोरिस एक खुनी योजना को अंजाम देकर काउंट की जगह ले बैठता है.स्थानीय अवाम पर काउंट के ज़ुल्म हद पार कर जाते हैं,जनता त्राहि-त्राहि कर बैठती है.इस अत्याचारी से कैसे छुटकारा पाया जाये ये विचारने के लिए महापौर के घर बैठक होती है और उसमे ज़िक्र छिड़ता है वेताल का जिसने पूर्व में कभी स्टायरबाश परिवार के किसी सदस्य के मदद की थी एवं जिसका सुरक्षा चिन्ह वाकुल दुर्ग के दरवाज़े पर चिन्हित था,नतीजतन वेताल से मदद की गुहार लगायी जाती है,और जैसा की आशा थी वेताल(मौजूदा वेताल के दादा) का आगमन होता है और कैसे वो वाकुल दुर्ग को गिद्ध के आतंक से मुक्ति दिलाता है ये सब खुद ही जानिए इस सनसनीखेज चित्रकथा में.

वेताल-वृतांतों में से ली गई कथाएँ हमेशा सामान्य से अधिक रोमांचक एवं रोचक रही हैं इसी तथ्य को भुनाया है लेखक 'वर्कर' ने और इसमें सहयोग दिया है प्रतिभाशाली चित्रकार 'जैमे वाल्व' ने जिनके चित्र वेताल की शख्सियत को वही रहस्यमयी प्रभाव प्रदान करते हैं को कभी मूर के चित्र किया करते थे.

'गिद्ध' एक प्रभावशाली वेताल-खलनायक रहा है जो सर्वप्रथम नज़र आया था डेली स्ट्रिप न.114(The Vultures) में पर अचरज की बात ये है की फ़ाल्क ने कभी 'गिद्ध' को दोहराया नहीं,वैसे फ़ाल्क ने बहुत कम ही खलनायकों को दोहराया है और गिद्ध भी कोई अपवाद नहीं,पर स्वीडिश कथाकारों ने मशहूर खलनायकों का अच्छा इस्तेमाल किया है एवं कई रोचक कहानियां प्रस्तुत की हैं.

फ़ाल्क के उपजाऊ दिमाग में विचारों की कभी कोई कमी नहीं रही इसलिए उन्होंने पुराने खलनायकों को दोहराने की बजाये हमेशा नए-नए खलनायकों को पेश करने को ही तरजीह दी,हालाँकि कई ऐसे पुराने खलनायक रहे हैं जिनकी वापसी काफी धमाकेदार हो सकती थी पर फ़ाल्क का नज़रिया शायद दूसरा ही था.जिन खलनायक किरदारों को फ़ाल्क ने दोहराया है उन्हें उँगलियों पर गिना जा सकता है जैसे की 'ताराकिमो,टेरर,कुला कु’.

अगर फ़ाल्क चाहते तो गिद्ध को भी उसी रोमांचक रूप पेश करते रहते जिस तरह अष्टांक को उन्होंने मैन्ड्रेक के सदाबहार खलनायक के रूप में प्रस्तुत किया,अष्टांक और विषधर ही एकमात्र ऐसे खलनायक रहे जिनसे मैन्ड्रेक की मुठभेड़ कई बार दोहराई गयी और अंत में ये दोनों एक ही व्यक्ति निकले.अजीब बात है की मैन्ड्रेक के लिए उन्होंने खलनायकों को दोहराने से परहेज़ नहीं किया पर वेताल के लिए उनका नज़रिया कुछ अलग ही रहा.

खैर,बात करते है मौजूदा कॉमिक की,इस कहानी की खासियतों में कसी हुई स्क्रिप्ट,चुस्त संवाद और कमाल के चित्र शामिल है,खासतौर से दुसरे भाग का मुखपृष्ठ जो की निश्चय ही इंद्रजाल कॉमिक्स के सबसे आकर्षक कवर्स में से एक है.

ज़रा गौर फरमाइए इस कवर पर,फ्रंट में वेताल की गंभीर मुखमुद्रा वाला ब्लोअप,आगे गरजती हुई तोपें और पीछे आग की लपटों से बनती हुई अक्षर 'V' की शक्ल जिसमे गिद्ध उड़ रहे है..वाह,कमाल की सोच को चित्रों द्वारा जीवंत किया है आर्टिस्ट 'जैमे वाल्व' ने!

प्रथम भाग के कवर को तो स्वर्गीय गोविन्द जी ने तैयार किया था पर द्वितीय भाग के कवर को मुझे नहीं लगता की किसी दूसरे आर्टिस्ट ने तैयार किया होगा बल्कि कॉमिक के सबसे आखिरी पैनल को ही कवर का रूप दे दिया गया है जो की बिलकुल उचित निर्णय था.

FREW द्वारा इस कथानक को सामान्य 32 प्रष्ट के फॉर्मेट में प्रकाशित किया था पर इंद्रजाल ने इसे दो भागो में प्रकाशित किया था,हालाँकि FREW द्वारा किसी भी पैनल की कांट-छांट नहीं की गई थी पर उनके आकार में ज़रूर बदलाव किया गया था 32 पृष्ठ में कहानी को समेटने के लिए लेकिन इंद्रजाल ने पूरी भव्यता एवं सम्मानजनक तरीके से इस कहानी को दो शानदार भागों में पाठकों से सामने रखा.
दोस्तों,तुलनात्मक अध्धयन हेतु FREW द्वारा प्रकाशित इसी कहानी का वो अंक भी साथ-साथ प्रस्तुत किया जा रहा है हार्दिक साभार सहित जनाब अजय मिश्रा साहेब के जिन्होंने इस अंक को तुरत-फुरत स्कैन कर भेजने की कृपा की.

Download 1st Part of Vakul Durg Ka Rehasya

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Download Frew No.995

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# 3rd Anniversary Post

Friends and comic lovers from all over the world,it gives me immense pleasure to welcome all of you at this memorable day which is the 3rd birthday/anniversary of this blog.
First of all let me thank my dear friend Comic Crazee for designing this fabulous header specially for Comic World's 3rd Anniversary post.Many-many thanks to him for this magnificent gift.
To start the celebrations,let me present another one of my dear and close friend Kuldeep Bhai who is eager to welcome all of you.Here are his words right away.

"Hello every one..My welcome greeting to you all and thanks everyone for joining us to celebrate another wonderful anniversary of this blog.This blog is not a website like millions others available on internet but it is a place where we see a pristine pond filled with warm memories of our childhood and we all want to jump to feel the old days when we were care free, pure hearted and dreamed to do something big.. Welcome all.. jump and feel the joy, happiness and lets promise ourselves that we will keep on filling this pond with our thoughts, appreciation,knowledge sharing,old memories so that more and more will be joining us in coming days to make this place the only 'mecca'/'Kumbh' of Comics world .. On this blog we have seen so many wonder ful post(Sholay,Hindi novels,satyakatha,bal pocket books,comics artist, writers....).. so many old thoughts ('par-tilli' , comics reading in Lantern light, efforts took to get comics...) we met so many wonder ful people who have such vast knowledge on comics,collection and we learned a lot about comics,comic culture ,reading habits in India and around the world. So much have been shared,posted so far and amazing part is that ' we want more' what best could happen to this blog other than this that instead of quenching the fire it is making it more and more big like adding more fuel (with every new post.) we have shown our appreciation to 'Zaheer bhai' so many time and on this occasion I salute his great work again on behalf of all of us and congratulate him again on 3rd anniversary of 'Comic world'.
Lage raho Zaheer bhai ... and Yes.. ALL IZZZ WELL.. keep it rolling.. Have a wonder ful time friends.. Kuldeep

As you all know about Kuldeep Bhai that he is living encyclopedia of comics,he has vast-vast treasure of knowledge and nostalgic moments attached with comics which he regularly keeps on sharing with all of us in his unique and unmatched style of words of which we all are fond of.If topic comes about Ved Prakash Sharma then he is simply unmatched and a living data base of his novels...simply mind blowing...i have never seen a passionate comic reader and lover as he is....and talking about his human side,he is a good human and friends of friend.How many of us can send quite a costly comics to a person with whom we don't have that much of 'terms' and acquaintance and that also without expecting any thing in return!!!Truly,a most humble attitude which is highly appreciated.
Kuldeep Bhai,many thanks for your kind and warm feeling toward this blog,i hope to see you all along with this blog like you are.As a small token of gift here is that ad page of unpublished novel of Ved Prakash Sharma which you were looking for.Hope you will like it.

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# Tarzan with Strip

Friends here is another Tarzan comic along with its strip version for comparison purpose contributed by a dear friend,ardent comic lover and collector Mister Alf for which all credit and thanks to him only.

























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You can also download its strip version for reference/comparison purpose from here.
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Mister Alf has a considerable collection of these Tarzan comics and strips,let him know if you like these and wish for more from his collection.

Friends do you remember vinyl Long Play audio records!!!A long disc like records which were played(rotated) on gramophone by stylus arrangement.Many childhood memories are associated with these vinyl rotating discs.We will be discussing more and in detail about them in coming posts.


































Can anyone tell about the format of these Diamond Comics and did anyone of you read them!If yes then can you throw some light on these type of Diamond Comics.


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#Comic No.136 & 137:Munshi Premchand

Munshi Premchand(Dhanpatrai,1880-1936) is no doubt the best Hindi and Urdu writer whose stories and novels represent the emotions and mentality of true India.His theme of stories and writing skills are unmatched and beyond compare with anybody as his story telling ability was interesting,simple and having words from day to day conversation.
His stories mainly depicted the problems of ordinary peasants and common man such as corruption,communalism,debt,poverty etc in a very simple and effective language.Before Premchand Indian story telling was confined mainly to King-Queen and fantasy sort of stories,it was he who brought the canvas of his stories to the problems of common man and ground realities.
His work was also appreciated in film industry and quite a few movies were made on his stories/novels such as "Mazdoor(1934),Seva Sadan(1938),Gaban(1966),Godan(1963),
Shantranj Ke Khiladi(1977)".
Gaurav Gatha publications acknowledged his work by rendering out a comic on him,which is being presented here.His stories can be read online from a blog devoted specially on him,Munshi Premchand blog.
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Friends a ardent comic lover,multi talented personality and a dear friend,Vijay Kumar Sappatti,has introduced a blog (Comics of India) devoted on comic characters,where he has put up comic characters drawn by himself.Have a look at it and let him know your encouraging thoughts and suggestions over it.


Enjoy another Fauladi Singh comic contributed by Deep again.





























Doston,chalte-chalte one small quiz.....:o)

1.Can you tell for which movie this still shot was taken.


























2.Name the movie in which Helen was paired opposite Amitabh Bachchan.

3.Can you tell during which movie shooting this still shot has been taken.This shot was taken during picturization of a song from a very famous and hit movie of Amitabh,the name of this particular movie appears in the lyrics of this very song.


























4.Can you tell in which movie Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Teji Bachchan played a small role.

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# C.M.Vitankar & Vichitra Anguthi

If both Amar Chitra Katha and Manoj Chitra Katha are talked of then then name of C.M.Vitankar for best cover designs can be taken unarguably.
Though C.M.Vitankar designed covers for both ACK and MCK but the cover designed by him for MCK were far superior than those for ACKs.The reason behind this was the liberty of colors which MCK allowed to give a paint like look on thick paper whereas ACK used limited colors and thin paper for covers.
Information about C.M.Vitankar is very limited and hard to find as he left this world 10 years from now,only available information about him is that he was from Ahmadnagar and later settled his base in Mumbai.
Cover designed by him for MCKs were very impressive and imparted a attractive painted look on beautifully drawn images.Many of times a comic felt more attractive due to the cover page by C.M.Vitankar rather than its story content.
Have a look at some of the covers by C.M.Vitankar for MCKs.








































































(Cover courtesy:Ajay Misra,Sajid and Comic World)
(Information courtesy:Alok)

Have a detailed look at the cover page of 'Murkh Kumhaar',the single page narrates itself the whole story of the comic,notice the expressions of teacher,pottery maker and donkey..how beautifully each face has been rightly decorated with its expressions,simply unmatched!
Also notice the scary and amused look at the lion's face in 'Teesmarkhan',isn't it superb!! C.M.Vitankar's covers were best suited for folk and fairy tales as his style of drawing,
selection of colors and the design of character's clothes were most effective and attractive for such plots.
I am very much eager to know more about him,if anyone is having more information about him then please do share with all of us.
Presenting herewith another comic having superb cover by C.M.Vitankar,enjoy it and can anyone tell who is the illustrator of this comic!!







Presenting another comic,a Fauladi Singh,from the treasure of Deep.





























Any takers of this Tarzan comic from Kiran comics!!One funny ancedote associated with Tarzan comics,at the tender age of around 5 or 6 years when i first read Tarzan comics and the name of his creator 'Edgar Rice Burroughs' somehow i was confused by such a long and different name and interpreted it as 'Edgar' who borrows Rice,thus combining it to form 'Edgar Rice Burroughs',for a long time i kept this interpretation in mind and now laughs at myself whenever read this name "Edgar Rice Burroughs".

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# Its Party time

As promised in last post here is that 'party' for all of you,today we won't discuss much and will throw comics for you,just grab them and enjoy!! I want to thank and congratulate once again all of Comic World fans,friends,readers and visitors for Comic World being appreciated by a National Daily,"Hindustan".You can read that article published on Comic World by clicking this Link.
Coming back to party,the hosts of today's party are 'Deep,Ajay Misra' & yours truly. Starting with our beloved Indrajal comics,here is presented HQ version of IJC no.31,'The Deadly Swamp'.It has already been posted at net before but its a high resolution and cleaner version,been contributed by Ajay Misra,hence credit+thanks to him.




























The 2nd comic of today's is one of vintage Fauladi Singh comic contributed by Deep,who is a proud owner of a good collection of vintage FS comics.



























Between comics lets have a look at covers of some of the super hit novels of VPS.Can anyone forget 'Ek Aur Abhinamyu' and 'Qaidi No.100'!!

























Can anyone tell that which actress image is on the cover of Qaidi No.100!!

Another early Fauladi Singh comics from Deep's treasure for FS lovers,Kuldeep have you read this one...!!



























Friends a quiz for movie lovers.Here is a youtube link of a video of a song from the Film "Qurbani"(1981,Firoz Khan,Vinod Khanna,Zeenat Aman).Watch this video and you will see that when the song starts its very first stanza is filmed on a man in a boat,that man was a popular Hero of the 60's and have acted in quite a few films as hero as well as in main lead also.

Can any one identify that Hero!!!

Click here to watch the video

The fourth comic of today's party is again from Ajay Misra,its a vintage MCK.





























For Madhumuskan lovers here is also something,check it out.....

Enjoy Daddy Ji also....









































































Lastly something for 'Deewana' lovers also.......

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