Stories involving "The Phantom," Flash Gordon and Mandrake emphasized their roles as heroes, with special powers, talents or sci-fi tools. In 1976, the distinctly Indian character, Bahadur, joined the rotation. The first 32 issues contained "The Phantom" stories, but thereafter, the title alternated between various King Features characters, including Mandrake, Flash Gordon, Mike Nomad and Buz Sawyer, as well as the Publishers Syndicate character Kerry Drake.
This article, in the version of February 12 2008, includes information from Wikipedia: Indrajal Comics.In March 1964, the publisher of The Times of India, Bennet, Coleman & Co., launched a new series called Indrajal Comics. This article has an excess of redlinks in it - you can help PhantomWiki by creating new articles from these links.
Monthly,twice-a-month,weekly & again twice-a-month This list is incomplete - you can help PhantomWiki by expanding it. Each language edition had a different registration number with the Registrar of Newspapers for India Other editions were added in later years, and were sometimes released with a different periodicity than the main editions. English and Hindi seems to have been the main editions, that were published weekly during the entire run of the series.
The stories were mostly daily and Sunday stories, with several Gold Key/King/Charlton stories, some Fratelli Spada stories and one Team Fantomen story.įrom the first issue in 1964, Indrajal Comics was available in several language editions. The Indrajal books often contain colorized versions of Phantom stories, edited with expanded, reduced or omitted panels, to fit the format of the comic book. #123 and 124 were never published due to an industrial strike. Later it also published "Bahadur", an Indian comic hero created by Aabid Surti.Ī total of 803 issues of Indrajal Comics were published, ceasing in April of 1990. The first 32 issues of Indrajal Comics contained " The Phantom" stories, but thereafter, the title alternated between various King Features Syndicate characters, including " Mandrake the Magician", "Flash Gordon", and "Buz Sawyer".
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