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# चौथा पुत्र

2012-02-12T10:55:00.008+05:30

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 '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 ।

# Review of the Phantom:'The Gold Key Years:Volume 1'

2012-02-07T19:53:00.010+05:30

Friends its the month of February and we have just celebrated the 5th anniversary of Comic World few days back.The indents at my finger tips caused by rigorous and continuous typing for the anniversary post haven't been fully recovered and i am back with another post within a span of 3 days driven by some special cause.

All of you must be well aware of that Phantom's very first strip 'The Singh Brotherhood' appeared in newspapers on 17th Feb. 1936,hence February could be termed as Phantom's month and Comic World would be celebrating this month by posting different-different features/comics relating to Phantom in general.

To start with here is the review of 'The Gold Key years:Volume 1' published by Hermes Press Publication.You must be knowing that Hermes Press is the publication which has recently brought out the 3 volumes of Phantom Daily strips and planning to publish all Gold key,King,Charlton and Sundays too.

The 'Gold Key' was the publishing banner of K.K.Publications of US which published 17 comic books of Phantom based on Lee Falk original strips(except issue no.11,12 and 13) illustrated by Bill Lignate and script by Bill Haris(from issue no.1-10) and Bill Lignate(issue no.11-17) within the period spanning from Nov.1962 to July 1966.

In this series Hermes Press has published the first 8 stories of Gold Key in its 1st Volume followed by a 2nd volume consisting of remaining nine stories out of a total 17 Gold Key stories.

# 5th Anniversary Post

2012-02-04T20:35:00.006+05:30

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)

# " जंगल से बुलावा "

2012-01-01T18:11:00.006+05:30

दोस्तों,सबसे पहले इस ब्लॉग के सभी पाठकों को नव-वर्ष की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं | उसके बाद ख़ुशी की खबर यह है की इस वर्ष के प्रथम दिन ही एक नयी पोस्ट लेकर हाज़िर हुए हैं जनाब विशाल शर्मा जी अपने चिरपरिचित जोशीले अंदाज़ में जो पढ़ने वालों के दिल में खलबली मचा देता है | इनका प्रस्तुतीकरण ऐसा होता है जैसे कोई कवि वीर रस से सरोबार कोई कविता भरी महफ़िल में पेश कर रहा हो |

यह कॉमिक वर्ल्ड के लिए सौभाग्य की बात है की अपनी कविता पेश करने के लिए इन्होने कॉमिक वर्ल्ड को चुना जिसके लिए इन्हें हार्दिक धन्यवाद् |

तो दोस्तों मैं ज़्यादा देर तक आपके और इस कॉमिक के बीच नहीं आते हुए पेश करता हूँ विशाल शर्मा जी का नायब प्रस्तुतीकरण "जंगल से बुलावा" उन्ही के अंदाज़ में उन्ही की ज़बानी |

# Shammi & Dev

2011-12-24T23:45:00.004+05:30

The later half of this year proved quite unfortunate for Indian film industry as it took away two of the finest suave stars of their time of Bollywood viz flamboyant Shammi Kapoor and evergreen Dev Anand.
A lot of already has been written in print media as obituary about these two hence i don't wish to add more in it except posting here some of the unseen vintage pix and interview/article about these two deceased actors taken from magazines of 60's.

# पठनीय 'पाठक'

2011-10-21T18:15:00.014+05:30

दोस्तों तकरीबन दो साल पहले की एक पोस्ट में मैंने लुगदी साहित्य के चर्चित उपन्यास एवं उपन्यासकारों जैसे की वेद प्रकाश शर्मा,गुलशन नंदा,ओम प्रकाश शर्मा,वेद प्रकाश कम्बोज,राजहंस,प्रेम बाजपाई इत्यादि का शदीद ज़िक्र किया था जिसमे आम हिंदी पाठक के बीच इन लुगदी साहित्य के उपन्यासों की लोकप्रियता और इन उपन्यासकारों के रुतबे पर भी चर्चा की गयी थी |

उस वृहद पोस्ट में-जिसे आप सबकी काफ़ी सराहना भी प्राप्त हुई थी-लुगदी साहित्य के तक़रीबन तमाम लोकप्रिय उपन्यासकारों का नाम लिया गया था लेकिन एक बहुत बड़े उपन्यासकार-जिनके रुतबे से मैं उस समय तक वाकिफ़ नहीं था-का नाम छूट गया था जिसकी मुख्य वजह थी मेरी उन उपन्यासकार के उपन्यासों से नावकफियत क्योंकि तबसे पहले मैंने उनका एक भी उपन्यास नहीं पढ़ा था |

वो नामचीन उपन्यासकार हैं जनाब सुरेन्द्र मोहन पाठक(जन्म:19 फ़रवरी 1940) जो मौजूदा उपन्यासकारों में लोकप्रियता के पायदान की सबसे ऊँची सीढ़ी पर विराजमान हैं |

# The Lost World

2011-09-20T19:18:00.012+05:30

Friends there was a time when rental library culture was flourishing all over India and specially in northern India.
In almost every mohalla of every town there were small libraries which use to provide comics/novels on rent to the readers,the rent being normally 10% of the printed price of comics/novels.

The library business was quite a profitable one as a majority of Indian middle class readership could afford to read via renting only,in many cities library business established like a self funded small scale business providing employment to a large volume of under educated Indian population.

Mostly a library was formed by those persons only who themselves have great interest in reading and after purchasing comics/novels continuously finally comes up with the novel idea that why not to earn by this habit also !

As i have also mentioned many times that during my school days i too use to open up a temporary library at my home which was functional in summer holidays where i first use to read all comics myself and then put them in library for renting.

In many libraries there was also facility of home delivery and home picking where one or two library guys use to deliver comics/magazines/novels on bicycle to nearby homes and pick it also after stipulated time along with rent.
Local libraries were the most voluminous customer of the local comics/mags/novel dealer.In my city only there were as many as 15-20 renting libraries within a radius of 4-5 Km.

But later on time changed and with the advent of TV first then video then video games,mobile and now internet reading culture suffered a huge setback which laid a drastic effect on library business and slowly slowly almost all renting libraries from cities and towns got vanished.
Now neither i could find a renting library anywhere i visit and nor do i hear about it.

Recently when i went to my home town then somehow i thought of to search any of the still existing rental libraries nearby my locality and in the process i was able to found two of them about which i am going to discuss here.

# Transliterated Phantom Strips

2011-07-15T21:40:00.007+05:30

Updated:18th July
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Friends,late Lee Falk wrote a total of 150 Sunday Strips and 195 Daily Strips,means a total of 345 strips in all.Times of India publication published 105 Sunday and 111 Daily Strips under banner of Indrajal comics in both English and Hindi language,meaning that a total of 216 strips out of 345 were published in Hindi,thus leaving behind 129 strips which were never published in Hindi in India(except a very few which were published by Diamond comics publication).

# Kimberly's Diamonds

2011-06-27T00:54:00.008+05:30

The Kimberly Diamonds is another among one of my favorite Phantom story which was published as Daily Strip No.154 spanning from 28th May to 9th Sept.1984.
It was also published by Indrajal comics in two parts subsequently titled as 'Curse Of The Kimberly Diamonds' in Vol.22 No.43 & 44.(1985)
This is one of those rare stories in which adventure passes from father to son and the left out job of 20th Phantom was eventually completed by his son,21st Phantom.

# The Jungle Patrol

2011-06-20T00:37:00.010+05:30

दोस्तों काफ़ी मुद्दत से इस मौजूं पर लिखने की सोच रहा था जिसपर ज़िक्र करने के लिए मेरी उँगलियाँ इस वक़्त कीबोर्ड पर थिरक रही हैं.यूँ तो वेताल की मरहूम फ़ाल्क लिखित सभी कहानियां अपने आप में बेजोड़ हैं लेकिन वो कहानियां जिसमे वेताल पुरखों के कारनामे बयान किये गए हैं वो अपने-आप में लासानी(बेमिसाल)और लाफ़ानी(अमर)हैं.ऐसी ही एक कहानी है जो यह बताती है की जंगल गश्ती दल कैसे वजूद में आया,और यह कहानी है The Founding of Jungle Patrol(Sunday Strip No.64).

यह कहानी 12th वेताल के समय की है जिसमे वेताल ने समुद्री दस्यु के सबसे बदनाम दल को ख़त्म कर उन्ही के द्वारा जंगल गश्ती दल की स्थापना की.....है न अचरज की बात!

# Madhumuskan No.351

2011-05-21T23:16:00.003+05:30

दोस्तों एक तवील(लम्बे) वक्फ़े(अन्तराल) के बाद मैं दोबारा हाज़िर हूँ एक कॉमिक आप सब की खिदमत में लेकर.दरअसल पिछले कुछ वक़्त से कॉमिक्स की दुनिया से दिल कुछ उचाट सा हो गया था जो की वायस(वजह) था कॉमिक पोस्टिंग को लेकर मेरी उदासीनता का.वैसे भी जैसा के आप लोग जानते ही हैं की महज़ कॉमिक पोस्टिंग करना मेरा मक़सद नहीं,मेरा मक़सद तो दरअसल कॉमिक्स के साथ आप लोगों के साथ उनसे जुडी यादें सुनना और सुनाना है.

ऐसी ही आज की कॉमिक है मधुमुस्कान का अंक न.351.मधुमुस्कान,जैसा की आपको मालूम होगा ही,एक ऐसी हास्य पत्रिका थी जो सरल हास्य के साथ अन्दर तक गुदगुदा देती थी जिसमे जगदीश,हरीश सूदन

,हुसैन ज़ामिन,अंसार अख्तर,पाशा आदि कलाकारों की रचनायें बेहद सशक्त और मनोरंजक हुआ करती थी.

# Nostalgic Dive

2011-05-15T21:07:00.004+05:30

It always feel nice to go through the film magazines of bygone era as it feels like a journey through time machine in that bright past(for movies past was always brighter)era of films which was cleaner,much adorable and comparatively more appreciative.
To view the photos of those movies in making which we have cherished and enjoyed gives a feel as we are present on the sets itself,to view the photographs of actor/actress/character artists of those times feels like having a trip right into the lives of these stars,to view/read about the happenings of those times seems to bring back that gone era live in front of eyes.
This post is among one of such posts which tries to bring back the memories of that passed phase of Indian movies through these vintage magazines.

# Safi Reloaded

2011-05-11T23:17:00.002+05:30

दोस्तों,मशहूर और मारूफ़ नॉवेलिस्ट इब्ने सफ़ी के पुराने उपन्यासों का पुनर्प्रकाशन हार्पर-कोलिन्स प्रकाशन द्वारा हाल में ही किया गया है जिसके प्रथम चरण में पूर्व में जासूसी दुनिया(निकहत प्रकाशन,इलाहबाद) द्वारा प्रकाशित प्रथम आठ उपन्यासों को हिंदी में प्रकाशित किया गया है.

#Stardust Annuals

2011-05-08T23:40:00.009+05:30

Very recently i got the opportunity to lay my hands on very early issues of Stardust Annuals from which i am posting the covers of few of its initial issues.

Stardust,a gossip and paparazzi magazine which intended to dig and highlight the personal and private dark side of Bollywood stars,was introduced in 1972 with a motive to gain quick popularity and business by bringing out in public the dark side of life of Bollywood stars which was against their screen image and which they wished to be remained concealed.

# Rekha's Marriage

2011-04-25T23:22:00.023+05:30

In the ongoing series of posting interesting and nostalgic articles from old filmy magazines here is presented a article which appeared in Filmfare magazine of 1990 on Rekha marriage with Mukesh Agarwal,owner of Hotline Appliances.This tongue teaser,hyped and surprise marriage ended tragically with the suicide of Mukesh in mysterious circumstances,which only added mysterious flavor to Rekha's personality.

# Nandan

2011-04-19T13:49:00.005+05:30

Yesterday while fiddling through some old magazines of my collection i came across with some early issues of Nandan,a children magazine,which i hope many of you must be remembering to have had read in your childhood as do i.
Nandan was a Hindustan Times publication which was started in November 1964 in fond memory of India's very first prime minister Mr.Jawaharlal Nehru and hence its very first issue was dedicated to this late prime minister.

Naveen Nischol

2011-04-12T13:20:00.004+05:30

Few days back veteran actor Naveen Nischol passed away due to heart attack when he was traveling with his friend Randhir Kapoor from Mumbai to Pune.A lot of have been printed and said about him as obituary in print media,so instead of repeating what have already been said about him i am posting a interview of him which appeared in a magazine after success of his very first movie 'Sawan Bhadon'(1970).

# Marvellous Madhubala

2011-03-17T17:39:00.008+05:30

If its asked that who was the most beautiful actress of Hindi cinema then the name of Madhubala would come up arguably.I know few may not agree with it but most of them will be probably from the post Madhubala era,though i also got born after Madhubala's demise(1971) but this didn't prevented me from getting smitten by her beauty bug.

# Disco Dancer:A Book Review

2011-03-11T20:29:00.009+05:30

Few days back when i came to know about the three books published in Film Series by Harper Collins from a friend Arun,i was eager to have them in my collection as all three were written upon the movies which are among my best favorites,i.e,'Deewar,Disco Dancer & Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron'.

The very same day i placed a order on Flipkart for all the three books and today evening i received one of these which was 'Disco Dancer-A comedy in Five Acts' authored by Anuvab Pal.

# Winner Of Anniversary Quiz

2011-02-15T21:40:00.004+05:30

Friends the time limit for quiz of 4th Anniversary post has ended yesterday and its time now to declare the name of winner along with answers but before that let me put up the Hindi covers of Volume 20 of Indrajal comics which were supposed to be posted in previous post but were left behind due to shortage of time.

# 4th Anniversary Post

2011-02-04T12:37:00.011+05:30

Friends,4th February this year Comic World completes four year of its journey which commenced on 4th of Feb.2007,which indeed is a long time for a blog and specially for a comic blog as its quite difficult to maintain the same enthusiasm and pace of posting with comics throughout the year(s).

Though this blog was brought into picture primarily to share Indrajal comics and memories related with comics with other fellow comic lovers but with due course of time it managed to share information about comics,movies and other interesting topics and prolonged its life.

# The Biggest Mistake

2011-01-29T00:33:00.008+05:30

Friends though its a comic blog but it doesn't mean that we can't discuss something serious over here,in fact we can occasionally when a need arises to do so and today there is something which is not comical,i wish to share and discuss with all of you.
Well friends i have heard a lot of about partition that it was a biggest mistake committed ever till now,i have also heard that millions of peoples suffered a lot as they were forced to be uprooted from their base,they were forced to leave their relatives,friends
and their homeland because of a sheer nonsense and scary drama(unfortunately which was real) which took place only because of few power centers(rather peoples) who were not ready to budge a single millimeter from their positions of greed,who were not
ready to accept a second place in greedy power politics.

# एक डायरेक्टर की मौत!

2011-01-25T00:50:00.004+05:30

दोस्तों मौत दो तरह की होती है,एक जिस्म की और दूसरी कला की.जिस्म की मौत के बाद भी इन्सान अपनी कला के ज़रिये हमेशा जी सकता है लेकिन कला की मौत के बाद वो सिर्फ सांस लेता हुआ मामूली इन्सान की तरह जीता रह जाता है.

इस श्रृंखला की पहली पोस्ट में हम बात करेंगे कुछ ऐसे निर्देशकों की जिनका शरीर तो जिंदा है लेकिन उनकी कला पता नहीं कहाँ खो गई है,वो ज़िंदा भी है या नहीं इसकी भी अब तक कोई ख़बर नहीं.
इस चर्चा में पहला नाम है मशहूर लेखक-निर्देशक गुलज़ार के सहायक रह चुके चंद्रशेखर नार्वेकर उर्फ़ 'एन.चन्द्रा' का जिन्होंने सिल्वर स्क्रीन पर अपनी धमाकेदार उपस्थिति का ऐलान किया था 1986 में फिल्म 'अंकुश' के द्वारा जिसमे उन्होंने लेखक,संपादक और सह-निर्माता की तिहरी भूमिका निभाई थी.

# Highlights of 4th Anniversary Post

2011-01-11T20:43:00.004+05:30

Friends as you all know that Comic World is going to complete four years of blogging and will enter into 5th year of its existence on February 4th,to celebrate this occasion a special post is being prepared which will contain loads of rare comics(as expected) and many other features such as articles supported by in depth analysis of comic,brain storming quizzes,vintage ads from vintage and rare magazines and much much more.
At this point of time i only wish to announce that 4th anniversary post will also containing the famous Inspector Azad strip,'Daud',by Abid Surti and Pratab Mulick.
Well,friends 'Daud' is that particular strip by which showman Rajkapoor was very much impressed and decided to make a movie on it but unfortunately due to some unavoidable circumstance the movie couldn't be canned of.
The scan posted below is a part of 'Daud' which was been published serially by The Illustrated Weekly Of India,have a look.

# Tintin Hindustani

2011-01-05T00:07:00.003+05:30

Good news for Indian Tintin lovers as now this popular character is also available in Hindi so now Hindi readers can also enjoy the adventures of this witty character.