# 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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#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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#Comic No.128 & 129 and 1st Indian Super Hero

Almost all the Indrajal comics are posted on net except very few.This
No.209,'RamCharitManas' was among one of them. Indrajal comics also published some issues based on indigenous stories same as Amar Chitra Katha. This present comic is based on Tulsidas Ramayan and shlokas from the original text are taken and translated in English along with,making this comic in prose form.
Friends same as this comic one movie of 'Rajkumar' was in prose form,means,that the total dialogues of that movie were in prose.Can anyone tell which was that movie.


























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When a friend Alok,asked me for his documentary about the first Indian comic super Hero then the name of 'Bharat Kumar' of Madhumuskan came invariably in my mind.
It was a misconception in some persons mind that Fauladi Singh was the 1st Indian Super Hero,but since 1st comic of FS was published in 1979 whereas this current Bharat Kumar feature is from a 1977 issue of MM,which leaves no doubt that 'Bharat Kumar' was the 1st Indian Super Hero.





























Have a look at very early "Daddy Ji" feature by 'Harish M.Sudan' from the same issue. Note that only one page was allotted to Harish Sudan at that time.


























Another super hit Fauladi Singh comic is presented here for all of you,and its none other than "Fauladi Singh Aur Karkola Ka Chakravyuh" contributed by Navdeep for which all thanks and credit to him only.

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