Sunday, December 25, 2016

#723 - S205 - The Gorilla Camp Raiders - 1997-08-17 (3444) to 1997-11-16 (3457)

Emile has provided us with the strips for this story, the first panel of which looks like this:



















Download from Emile's original link here, and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy,

Venkit

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

Sunday, December 18, 2016

#722 - S209r - The Night People - 1998-10-18 (3505) to 1999-01-31 (3520)

Emile has provided us with the strips for this story. The first panel looks like this:


















Download the story from Emile's original link here and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy,

Venkit

Sunday, December 11, 2016

#721 - S204 - The Lost Library of Alexandria

Emile has provided us with the strips of this new reprint that just ended. The first panel looks like this:



















Download the story from Emile's original link here and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy,

Venkit

Monday, December 05, 2016

#720 - Part 2 of Tarzan and the City of Gold story

Emile had provided us with the second part of this long story. The first panel of this looks like this:









Please download the full story from Emile's link here and shower your thanks on him!

Some additional comments from Emile:

The first part was shared in this blog on August 29, 2016. You can still download it from http://bookscomics.blogspot.com/2016/08/latest-reprint-of-tarzan-daily-strip.html .

More information about the two artists who worked in this story can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Cardy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reinman

Note: Rex Maxon already created a daily strip story based on the 1932 book with the same name. Here are the details:

Tarzan and the City of Gold
Daily Strips: Art by Rex Maxon
Continuity by R.W. Palmer / Don Garden
Strip Numbers : N1-N150 (26 Mar. 1934-11 -15 Sept. 1934)

You can also read the original book by Edgar Rice Burroughs here:

Project Gutenberg (Australia):
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500241h.html

I did not find an entry in http://central.gutenberg.org/ but many other E.R. Burroughs book can be found there.

Enjoy,
Venkit

Sunday, November 27, 2016

#719 - S203 - The Fossil Hunters and the Terrorists - 1997-01-19 (3414) to 1997-05-04 (3429)

Here is a Tarzan Sunday strip that ran for 16 weeks in 1997, sent to me by Emile.

The first panels starts like this:


















Download the story from Emile's original link here and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy,

Venkit

Monday, November 21, 2016

#718 - S202 - The Mangani Peril - 1996-09-15 (3396) to 1997-01-12 (3413)

Here is a Sunday Tarzan strip sent to us by Emile. The first panel looks like this:



















Download the story from Emile's original link here and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy,

Venkit

Saturday, November 05, 2016

#717 - The latest Phantom Daily strip with a new artist

Emile has sent us the latest Phantom Daily strip that just concluded. These are drawn by a new artist Manley following the untimely passing away of Ryan.

The first panel looks like this:









Download the strip from Emile's original link and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy,

Venkit

Monday, August 29, 2016

Latest reprint of the Tarzan Daily strip

This is the 2016 reprint of the story posted in this blog in 2013. This contains 78 strips that ran originally from November 14, 1949 to February 11, 1950. The first strip looked like this:










Emile, has sent us the following link, from which you can download the story and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy,

Venkit

Monday, August 15, 2016

#714 - the Latest Sunday Tarzan reprint that ended today

Emile (who else) has provided me with archive for the latest Tarzan Sunday strip reprint. The first panel looks like this:



















Download the story from Emile's original link here. Though the name of the file says D208, please change it to S208.

Thanks are owed only to Emile.

Enjoy,

Venkit

Monday, June 20, 2016

#713 - The latest Phantom Sunday strip - S183 - Trouble in the Twelve Nations - 2015-12-27 to 2016-06-19

This is yet another of those Phantom-Mandrake crossover episodes attempted more times after the passing away of their Creator than before.

























Emile was kind enough to provide us with the link, which you can download here.

Thanks, Emile.

Happy Father's Day to all

Enjoy,

Venkit

Sunday, June 05, 2016

#712 - The newest Phantom Daily strip - The Baronkhan Sedition

Emile has provided us with the latest Phantom Daily strip that ended today. The last week of the strip was drawn by a new artist following the passing away on March 7, 2016 of  Paul Ryan, who I thought was a very underrated artist.

Here are a couple of links containing some memoirs from those close Ryan.

Here's Phantom writer Tony DePaul remembering Ryan:
Paul Ryan, R.I.P. | The Nickels of the Man
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Paul Ryan, R.I.P. | The Nickels of the Man
Share SAD NEWS this morning out of Hudson, Massachusetts. The artist Paul Ryan, my partner on the Phantom daily newspaper strip for the last dozen year...
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The Boston Globe obit:
PAUL C. RYAN's Obituary on Boston Globe
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PAUL C. RYAN's Obituary on Boston Globe
Read the Obituary and view the Guest Book, leave condolences or send flowers. | RYAN, Paul C. 66, March 7th, of Hudson. Loving husband of Linda J. (S...
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Here are a couple of links containing information about the new artist - Mike Manley.


Now on to the comic strip. Please download the original strip from Emile here and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy,

Venkit

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

#711 - The latest Tarzan daily strip reprint

Posted below is a daily strip by the name of "The White Savages of Vaar", which ran for 54 days between June 13, 1949 and Aug 13, 1949.








(3067-3120) The White Savages of Vaar (1949-06-13 to 1949-08-13).cbr

Emile's original link is provided above. Please download from that link and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy,

Venkit

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

#710 - The latest Sunday Tarzan strip

Emile has provided me with the latest Sunday strip - S207 - D'Arnot's Fiancee which ran for 17 weeks between March 15, 1998 and July 05, 1998.



















Download from Emile's original link here and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy





Monday, March 28, 2016

#709 - Latest Tarzan reprint

Here is the latest Tarzan reprint sent to me by Emile. Please download the story here.









Enjoy and shower your thanks on Emile.

Venkit

Thursday, March 24, 2016

708 - A collection of Daily and Sunday strips of The Phantom.

I am presenting below a collection of Daily and Sunday strips of the Phantom, which were sent to me by an acquaintance from some other comics forum. These are not beginning to end

The links are MediaFire, but they will be live only for a month. So please download the strips as soon as possible.














Download the Daily strips here.















Download the Sunday strips here.

Shower your thanks on this anonymous person.

Enjoy,

Venkit


Sunday, March 20, 2016

#707 - Collection of Flash Gordon Daily and Sunday strips

Due to the hard work of a couple of my friends - the always obliging Emile and Dwight Simmons, here is a collection of a lot of Flash Gordon comic strips.

















































Most, if not all, of these have been posted in this blog over a period of time from 2007 onwards. Download the strips from here.

Enjoy,

Venkit

Sunday, January 31, 2016

#706 - D243 - The Twins’ Futures

Emile was kind enough to provide me with all strips for the above story that ran for 120 days between 2015-09-14 and 2016-01-30. The first strip looked like this:









Please download from Emile's original link here, and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy,

Venkit

Sunday, January 24, 2016

#705 - Tarzan and the Fires of Kohr - 1948-09-13 (#2833) to 1949-04-09 (#3012)

Emile has provided the strips for this wonderful Tarzan story, which ran for 180 days. The script was by Rob Thompson and there were 3 artists who worked on this story at various times.

Dan Barry (sounds familiar?) started the artwork for the strip on 1948-09-13 with strip number 2833, which looked like this:









He continued for 60 days or 10 weeks ending with strip number 2892 on 1948-11-20. John Lehti (famous for the Tales of the Great Book,)  took over from Dan and continued till strip number 2958 on 1949-02-05. Unfortunately this is shrouded in mystery as there are claims that these strips were ghosted by Emil Gershwin. Strip 2893 looked like this.









Paul Reinman took over with strip 2959 on 1949-02-07 and finished the story. He would also continue to do the artwork for 4 more Tarzan daily strip stories through to the middle of 1950. Strip 2959 looked like this.









Enough with all the history. Over to what most of us look for in a blog. Where is the link from where I can download the story? Ahhh. Here it is . Please down the original link from Emile over here and shower your thanks on him.

Enjoy,

Venkit




Monday, January 11, 2016

#704 - The latest Tarzan Sunday strip reprint

Here are the details:

Number 206
Name Tarzan's trip to New York.
From 3458 to 3473
Dates 1997-11-23 to 1998-03-08
Time 16 weeks

















Please download from Emile's original link here and shower your thanks on Emile.

Enjoy,
Venkit


Friday, January 01, 2016

#703 - Happy New Year and another old Tarzan Classic from 1936

Story
Title: Tarzan and the Leopard Men - “R” - 1935-12-30 to 1936-06-20 - 150 Strips.zip
Series: R
Date Start: 1935-12-30
Date End: 1936-06-20
Span: 150 Daily Strips
Artist: Rex Maxon

















This is again an international effort. The strips are from the collection of an Italian friend Fortunato. They were made into a CBR by our French friend Emile and presented here for your enjoyment by yours truly.

Download the story from Emile's original link. Thanks are owed to Fortunato & Emile.

Enjoy,

Venkitachalam.



HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 TO ALL VISITORS, THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS.