Monday, March 20, 2017

Indrajals !!!!!!!

Indrajals !!!!!!!


The Word Literally Means "Magical" and it was in that Context that many Still view the Greatest Comics Publication to hit the Indian Market more than 50 Years back. 
 Indrajal comics was published by the publisher of  "Times Of India" , Bennet & Coleman in march , 1964. It came to an end in April 1990, with the Publication of "Dara: The Jaws of Treachery".

Many Characters beccame the heroes for Thousands of Indian comic fans. The Foremost being
Phantom, The Ghost who Walks Followed By Mandake ,The Magician and Bahadur Etc Flash Gordon was another Popular comic hero. Characters like Dara, Drake, Buz sawyer,
Mike Nomad  etc.also Figured in Many Indrajal Issues.
In 1976 an Indian Character named "Bahadur' came to the Scene With a Classic Indrajal Issue "The Red Bricks House" Bahadur was created by The national award winning Author Abid Surti.
Now these Vintage comics are Highly collectible and early issues are so rare only a few has these. Indrajal was published in various regional languages also like kannada, Bengali,Urdu, Malayalam,Hindi,Marathi, Tamil Etc.It was even published in Arabic.....














          The Great Comic collectors deserve Special Mention: One of the The Greatest,Phantom of  the Comics: Vineet Abraham is an Inspiration for all Collectors.Then There is the bangalore based Collector Arun Prasad who has completed His Entire Indrajal collection in Two or Three languages !!!!!!
          I am proud to say that I am friends with Arun Prasad, Vineeth Abraham, Sudenshu, Sumit Etc. These legends are an Inspiration to collectors all over the World. They have reached the Summit of The
 Indrajal collection. 

All comics shown in this blog are from my Collection.








Saturday, March 18, 2017

Malayalam Film mags......

Malayalam Film mags......

                   It is a Pleasure to see the cover Pictures of Various Malayalam Film 
magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. Came across a Lot of such magazines a few days back......