# The Sound Of Music

दोस्तों कहते हैं कि संगीत में भी एक नशा होता है जो सुनने वाले को बेसुध कर देता है । कहा तो इतना तक गया है कि कई-कई संगीतकार तो अपने संगीत से सम्मोहित कर लोगों को वश में कर लेते थे । 

'Pied Piper Of Hemlin' की कथा तो आप सबने पढ़ी/सुनी ही होगी जिसमे Hemlin शहर के निवासी अपने शहर के लातादाद(असंख्य) चूहों से छुटकारा पाने के लिए एक दक्ष बांसुरी वादक को बुलाते हैं जो अपनी बांसुरी की मीठी और मोहक तान पर चूहों को सम्मोहित कर उन्हें शहर से बाहर एक नदी में ले जाकर डुबो कर नगरवासियों को उनसे निजात दिलाता है ।

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# चौथा पुत्र

दोस्तों,महाबली वेताल के जन्म-मास उत्सव को मनाते हुए हम आज एक और लोमहर्षक वेताल कथा पर बात करेंगे जो अपने-आप में कई कारणों से विशिष्ट हैं । यह एक ऐसी कथा है जिसमे कई वेताल मानकों और स्थापित परम्पराओं को तोड़ा गया है और मज़े की बात यह है की इन मानकों को किसी और ने नहीं बल्कि खुद ली-फ़ाल्क ने तोड़ा है और मुझे भरपूर शुबहा है कि इन तथ्यों कि तरफ़ शायद ही पहले किसी का ध्यान गया हो । 

क्या हैं वो वेताल परम्पराएं और क्या हैं वो मानक इन पर हम आगे तो बात करेंगे ही लेकिन उससे पहले बात करते हैं इस कहानी की अन्य विशेषताओं पर ।  वेताल-पुरखों के कारनामों पर आधारित कथाएँ हमेशा से सामान्य से अधिक रोमांचक और दिलचस्प हुआ करती हैं और यदि कथा खुद फ़ाल्क द्वारा लिखित हो तो फिर क्या कहने ! 

ऐसी ही एक सन्डे कथा है S-137,'The Fourth Son' या 'चौथा पुत्र' जो अख़बारों में नज़र आई थी 18 अगस्त 91 से लेकर 17 मई 1992 तक यानि की इंद्रजाल कॉमिक्स के दु:खद अवसान(1990) के उपरांत जिसकी वजह से यह कहानी इंद्रजाल कॉमिक्स के पन्नो की शोभा तो न बन सकी लेकिन डायमंड कॉमिक्स के डाईजेस्ट न.61/62 में अवश्य ही इसने अपनी सतरंगी छटा बिखेरी ।

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# Phantom Diamond Comics

We already know that Diamond publication issued around 100+ Phantom digests right from year 1990 in full color but the printing and paper quality of these digests were not the very best with the only consolation of their being in unedited format.

Recently Diamond publication issued few more Phantom Digests(information about exact no. of issues is not yet confirmed) with better printing and page quality in B/W format.

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# Lambu-Motu Aur Neelgarhi Ka Khazana

दोस्तों प्रस्तुत है लम्बू-मोटू की एक अनूठी कॉमिक और एक दुर्लभ अंक,यह दुर्लभ इसलिए कहा जाएगा क्योंकि इसके चित्रकार हैं जाने-माने कार्टूनिस्ट और पद्मश्री विजेता श्री सुधीर तैलंग,वैसे तो हिंदुस्तान टाइम्स,नवभारत टाइम्स और इंडियन एक्सप्रेस पढ़ने वालों को तैलंग जी के परिचय की आवयश्कता नहीं हैं फिर भी दुसरे पाठकों की खातिर मैं यह बताता चलूँ की राजनैतिक कार्टूनिस्टों की जमात में तैलंग जी का नाम आर.के.लक्ष्मण के बाद बड़ी इज्ज़त से लिया जाता है.

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# Gullivar Bauno Ke Desh Mein

Friends,why is so that these new comics fails to interconnect one as those old comics use to do a long way back,why we can't identify ourselves with the story line of these current comics,why these comic doesn't excites us though those old comics still recreate the magic of which we are fond of.
Recently came across with a latest set of Raj Comics which were quite costly,colorful printing,nice glossy pages,quite attractive cover designs.I started to read with a new ignited hope but couldn't read more than 9-10 pages as the soul of comic,the story miserably failed to attract me,this superhero concept,unnatural villains,unconvincing plot and excessive use of modern(imaginary) gadgets all was such that i am wandering into a alien land and watching a alien animated movie.
These surviving publication houses give a huge hue and cry over the declining comic business/culture in India but hardly they give a  thought over the quality of their product,they also fail to understand that what a common Indian comic reader want to read.
If these publication house can sense the nerve of a common comic reader then might be we can see another revamping period of comics.
For eg. lets read this comic 'Gulivar Bauno Ke Desh Me',though its a fantasy/fictional story but see its quality,illustrations and presentation..simply unmatched and close to common comic reader nerve. 

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# फौलादी सिंह और डिक्टेटर की तबाही

दोस्तों,प्रस्तुत है फौलादी सिंह का एक क्लासिक अंक जिसकी फरमाईश की गई थी कॉमिक्स/नोवल्स के लिविंग encyclopedia जनाब कुलदीप भाई द्वारा.
कल ही कुलदीप भाई ने इस कॉमिक का चित्र मेरी ऑरकुट एल्बम में देखकर इसको स्कैन करने की इच्छा ज़ाहिर की,अब कुलदीप भाई जैसे मित्र की इच्छा हो तो वो मेरे लिए किसी आदेश से कम महत्व नहीं रखती और फलस्वरूप हाज़िर है तुरत-फुरत स्कैन की गई ये कॉमिक.हालाँकि रमजान का पवित्र महीना चल रहा है और इसमें वक़्त कम ही मिल पता है पर फिर भी कुलदीप भाई जैसे मित्रों के लिए कभी भी कुछ भी क्योंकि कुछ मित्र ऐसे होते हैं की भले ही हम उनसे कभी न मिले हो पर वो दिल के बहुत क़रीब महसूस होते हैं.

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# One Post, Many Thoughts!

दोस्तों इस बार काफ़ी सारे ख्यालात ज़हन में घुमड़ रहे है जिन्हें आपके साथ बांटना है पर सोच रहा हूँ की कहाँ से शुरू करू!..क्या पहले उस कॉमिक की बात करूँ जिसके बारे में बात करने की पिछली पोस्ट में बात हुई थी या फिर मरहूम शेहाब जी की उस कॉमिक की बात करू जो इस पोस्ट में आपके साथ मिलकर पढना चाहता हूँ या फिर उस कम्युनिटी के बारे में आप लोगों को बताऊँ जो न चाहते हुए भी हालातों के मद्देनज़र मुझे बनानी पड़ी.
चलिए सबसे पहले उस कॉमिक की ही बात करते हैं जिसके बारे में बात करना पिछली पोस्ट में तय हुआ था और वो कॉमिक है 'वन-वीर लोथार'.दोस्तों ये सिर्फ महज़ एक आम मैन्ड्रेक कॉमिक नहीं है जिसमे मैन्ड्रेक हमेशा की तरह अपराधियों से अपनी जादुई शक्ति के बल पर लड़ता है,बल्कि ये एक ऐसी कहानी है जो यह बताती है की मैन्ड्रेक और उसका जिगरी दोस्त लोथार कब और कैसे मिले.
 

 

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# Chhotu-Lambu Aur Spider Den

Friends i was out of station for last 1 week,or better to say that i was on a visit to my home town for some personal work.
So here is a vintage comic for all of you by a classic artist late Mr.Shehaab ji,i got few other comics by him too which i will be posting subsequently.

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# Tribute To Shehab Ji

From a long time i was longing for a snap and other details about Shehab Ji as about him very less information is available even with his close associates such as Pran,Hussain Zamin etc.
Though in a previous post Alok Bhai has already given some precious information about Shehab Ji but after coming across his first snap of any kind i felt to dedicate one more post on him along with some more details about him.
Recently Anupam Bhai provided some of the rare information about Shehab Ji as well as other artists in this post,from this very post we at least got an opportunity to view Shehab Ji's lone snap up till now and some more information about him that he was from Allahabad and his famous creation Chotu-Lambu was being published in Parag from 1958.
We also came to know that Shehab Ji's lived a very struggled life and even worked as a carpenter to earn his living in his childhood as his parents died when he was a child only and due to poor condition he wasn't able to study after 10th.This struggle and poverty clearly reflects in his cartoons and characters very well.
Shehab Ji started his career with 1/2 page cartoon space and later on he was assigned by Diamond comics publication to create a full 32 page comic of Chotu-Lambu.
Shehab Ji holds some of the glorious creations like Manglu Madari-Bandar Bihari,Chimpu,
Chaman Charlie behind him.His cartoon used to be a simple characters which uses the day-to-day happenings to turn in humorous situations.Though Shehab Ji excelled in both 1/2 page and 32 page comic format but personally i felt that he was better in 1 or 2 page space rather than a full 32 page comic.

His USP was to portray a full humorous situation without the use of dialogues,he excellently generated sharp humor in his creation Chimpu(Indrajal comics)in the absence of any sort of dialogues using only the sign language,here one can easily find a striking similarity with Charlie Chaplin's mute comedy.
Perhaps Shehab Ji was greatly inspired by Chaplin's methodology as later on he created a character called 'Chaman Charlie',clearly inspired by Charlie Chaplin.


















(Image courtesy:Anupam Bhai,Atul Vishwakarma)

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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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# Republic Day Post

Today morning i received this sms from a dear friend Anupam,
"Why do we Indians eagerly wish valentine day,rose day,friendship day,etc. before 6 or 8 days,and feel proud that we have done a very great job.But why do things change when it comes to our nation's 'Republic Day or Independence Day'.Do we have the same eagerness?Answer is "NO".So come lets change our view towards our nation and stop giving priority to the western culture.
Lets be INDIANS first. "HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY" "JAI HIND...."
Yes,completely agree with it.Why its so that we are very eager to wish for individual cause but not for national cause!!Its so because we are losing faith and believe on nationalism and moving towards individualism.We prefer to think on regional or individual basis rather than on national basis.Nation is been taken as granted,we are proud to adopt western culture at every step of life,may it be clothes or living standards or live-in relationship or deteriorating inter-family relations. Anyway,not in mood to give any lecture,all of us are mature enough to understand in what way we are going.
Presented herewith is a pure desi comic for all of you on this auspicious occasion of our 60th Republic Day.Enjoy it and say "Jai Hind" if you like it.
One more thing,Feb.1st week will be the 3rd b'day of CW,many new things have been planned this time.Hope all of you will like them,till then 'Jai Hind'.

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# Vidyarthi Mithram & Chitra Bharti Kathamala

Friends,Tarzan has been published by mostly Kiran Comics in India,but there was another Indian publication which perhaps was the first to publish Tarzan in India,and that was Vidyarthi Mithram(Student friend) comics from Kottayam(Kerala).






















Few weeks from today i was totally unaware about this publication until i got hold of some of VM Tarzan comics very recently.From the ad at the back page of their comics its seems that VM were mainly dealer of scientific and laboratory equipments for schools/colleges,its amazing to notice that they also use to publish comics.
In one of their ad its mentioned that they also use to publish Phantom and Mandrake,though Phantom was published in Malayalam and Tamil,Mandrake in Malayalam and Tarzan in English,Hindi and Tamil.


























Going by this its totally new information about Phantom and Mandrake Indian publications,as far as my information is concerned VM has never been mentioned anywhere among Phantom/Mandrake Indian publications,even in Bryan Shedden site over Phantom which is considered as best complete reference guide for Phantom publications of all over the world,VM has not been mentioned there also in Indian Phantom publication list.
Perhaps Rafiq or Col.Worobu can throw more light on VM Phantom/Mandrake editions.

VM started publishing Tarzan in early 70's,hence going by this VM becomes the first Indian Tarzan publication as Kiran Comics was started in 80's.Early issues of VM Tarzan were in monochrome color and later issues in 4 color format.






















These are mostly illustrated by John Celardo and others,Col.Worobu can you tell more about this Tarzan illustrator!!.










































Chitra Bharati Kathamala

In early 80's reading culture was at its peak and comic business was a highly profitable business as already proved by super success of Indrajal comics,Amar Chitra Katha,Manoj Chitra Katha,Dalton Comics and many other publications at that time.
Sensing the business opportunity in comic industry a already well established name in school/college books publication house,S.Chand & Company of Delhi thought of trying its hand in comic publication and started Chitra Bharati Kathamala,which use to publish comics based on Historical stories,science fiction,comedy series and on well known historical persons life story.









































Though comics from this publication were of sub-standard except few series such as those written-illustrated by Anupam Sinha such as Kapil,Space Star,Mahamaya and other.









































Junior James Bond by Sukhwant was also one of the popular characters of Chitra Bharati.






















In late 80's and early 90's reading culture took a back seat with the advent of T.V/Video and comic business no longer remained a profitable venture.Comic publication houses shutters start dropping down due to cold business and in one such year S.Chand and Company also bid adieu to Comic publication and Chitra Bharati Kathamala became a history in readers mind.
Though not of very high quality but still CBK will be remembered by avid comic readers because of Anupam Sinha creations in it.

Today's Comic
Comic of this post is contributed by Navdeep,hence all credit to him only.This is a Fauladi Singh comic,hope will be liked by FS lovers.

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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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