Indrajal Comics

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Indrajal Comics was a comic book series launched by the publisher of The Times of India, Bennet, Coleman & Co in March of 1964.

History

The issues of Indrajal Comics alternated between various King Features Syndicate characters, including "Mandrake the Magician", "The Phantom", "Flash Gordon", and "Buz Sawyer". Later it also published "Bahadur", an Indian comic hero created by Aabid Surti.

A total of 803 issues of Indrajal Comics were published, ceasing in April of 1990. #123 and 124 were never published due to an industrial strike.

The Indrajal books often contain colorized versions of Mandrake stories, edited with expanded, reduced or omitted panels, to fit the format of the comic book. The stories were mostly daily and Sunday stories, with a few King Comics stories.

Language versions

From the first issue in 1964, Indrajal Comics was available in several language editions. English and Hindi seems to have been the main editions, that were published weekly during the entire run of the series. Other editions were added in later years, and were sometimes released with a different periodicity than the main editions. Each language edition had a different registration number with the Registrar of Newspapers for India

Issue overview

1960's

1964 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  
1965 11 12 13 14] 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22  
1966 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34  
1967 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56  
1968 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76  
1969 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

1970's

1970 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122  
1971 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148
1972 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172
1973 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196




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