The Phantom (Election Commission, Australia)

Today The Phantom turns 85!

Lee Falk’s “The Ghost Who Walks,”

Lives Forever in the Hearts of His Fans!

The Phantom, the first costumed hero, made his debut on Feb. 17, 1936 in daily strips. 

Creator: Lee Falk (April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999): Well know as the creator of "Mandrake the Magician" (1934–2013) and "The Phantom" (1936–present).

The Phantom – 70 Years of (Anniversary) Frew

 

Title: The Phantom – 70 Years of (Anniversary) Frew)
It contains coloured comics-strips:

1. Return of the Sky Band
2. Revenge of the Sky Band
3. Movie Stars 
4. Jungle Love
5. Slave market of Mucar
6. Child Soldiers of Mucar
   
   

The Phantom: D61 - “U-Town” - 27 Feb to 19 May 1956 (Coloured)

Almost after 5 years, TPH is back with wonderful gift for us - one more coloured classical strips by him.

Was waiting to collect it from his blog, and received with notes to share here.

Colouring of old strips is very time consuming hard work. 
Words are certainly not enough to evaluate and appreciate his hard work. 😍Thanks a lot!

The Phantom daily strips: D61 - “U-Town” - 27 Feb to 19 May 1956

Story: Lee Falk
Art: Wilson McCoy
Colour: TPH
Link for "Offline Reading" is given at the end of the post.
Note:This story was not printed in Indrajal Comics (India).

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Complete Flash Gordon D-2 Daily Strips Collection (144 strips English + 8 missings in Spanish)

Had regrouped all previous D2 posts to make the quest easier. 

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     Although Flash Gordon debuted as a Sunday page on January 7, 1934 with Alex Raymond's story and art, the Daily strips were started in 1940 only.

    There were 11 stories in D-1 series (27 May 1940 - 3 June 1944) drawn by Austin Briggs (read Here).
After a break, the Daily returned on 19 Nov 1951 to give us 152 stories as D-2 series till 7 June 1993.

In D-2 series, Dan Barry and Harvey Kurtzman initially worked together. Later Dan Barry was assisted by these gentlemen: Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Fred Kida, Bob Fujitani and Harry Harrison.

Covers of Gowarsons Comics, Madhu Muskan Comics and Trishul Comics

होली की पूर्व संध्या पे, सभी दोस्तों को होली की बधाइयाँ|
कॉमिक्स तो हम पढ़ते ही रहते हैं और रहेंगे, 

आज खेलते हैं, मेरे कुछ पसंदीदा series के covers की होली|

कहने को तो ये तीन  series थे  - "गोवरसन्स कॉमिक्स",  "मधु मुस्कान कॉमिक्स" और "त्रिशूल कॉमिक्स" -  पर मुझे हमेशा एक ही लगे| 

कारण: एक ही owner के थे, अलग- अलग नाम से 1982 से 1985 के बीच आये थे, जिसमें कई Heroes हर शृंख्ला में थे| काश, इन तीनों का पुनः प्रकाशन का शुरू होता| 

इंद्रजाल कॉमिक्स के बाद शायद पहली बार कई विदेशी heroes को एक साथ न सिर्फ हिंदी बोलना सिखाया गया, बल्कि कई का भारतीयकरण करने की कोशिश की गयी थी|

The Phantom Special 2

(16 Jan 2021): 3 more Moonstone (pdf & cbr - both) provided by Ashok Singh are added.

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    The Brainchild of Lee Falk (aka Leon Harrison Gross) - The Phantom is ruling the heart of billions fans since February 1936. 

   The Grand-master Lee (1911 – 1999) is no more, several  artists joined his company in the heavens or retired -  Ray Moore, Wilson McCoy, Bill Lignante, Sy Barry, George Olesen, Keith Williams, Fred Fredericks, Graham Nolan, Eduardo Barreto and Paul Ryan. New writer and artists are trying to continue the work of Maestro. Long Live The Phantom!
   Different era fans may rate one era stories better than other. But, the truth is "The Phantom is loved" and the show is going on....

Blog's 10th Anniversary Post: 1. (Novel) Sitaron se Aage, 2.(Trishul Comics #7) Hataya Robot and 3. (Scanlation) Taar - The Rebel --Very 1st time Taar speaks Eng...Hurrah!

🎇Never thought I'll stay here for 10 years.

🎇Never thought I'll give  shoulder in some rare stuffs in such quantity.
🎇But, I always wished to see completed. Where it was never important for me. But something happened here, later at indrajal-online.blogspot.com
🎇Again 3 rare series are flowing... some amazing projects are going on... and I wished to return in this mode in 2019-2020 only.


Came at net to collect some comics and books I love. Later to help persons who were missed such stuffs like me, I started blogging.
My motto was very simple: If not available, I'll do such way ...many shan't miss ...
In this journey met with many people (names are given in every post) ... lot of memories.
Thanks for your love and support! Our journey from "I" to"We" is the main driving force behind such longevity.
Life forced me to become passive from blogging for some years, Venkitachalam Subramanian was single handedly doing all job with selfless effort by Emile.

Another member "IUnKnown" is busy fulfilling his real world's responsibilities. But, the game is not over....

One more friend "Rajesh" has joined us. Amazing passion for comics. He is not only helping from front in out of print Hindi Indrajal Comics  at indrajal-online.blogspot.com , but you'll enjoy his stuffs here and other friends blog too. Some mind blowing projects you are going to read soon.

What is common between these 5 (in fact, many more)?

We are living in different continents at different places and never met - one and only point - Love for books and comics.
We love some certain classical series, characters and some out of print books and comics.
We are just trying to fill gaps ...free ...without any direct and indirect rewards ...

For me, all shared in this blog are out of print as where I live - as can't find in English or Hindi. 

A peculiar comic- Sunny the Supersleuth - Defeats the Terrosists

For those among us who know only Dhoni and gang and probably heard of Tendulkar (god of cricket), there was a cricketer, who reigned the World of Test Cricket from the early seventies to the early eighties. He came to the cricket scene with a bang in 1971, scoring 774 runs in 5 Tests (didn't bat in one innings to add to the greatness) against the mighty West Indies, which included 2 double centuries against the likes of Wesley Hall, Charles Griffith, Gary Sobers et al.

#689 - Phantom Daily strip 195 set in color by "Perth"

Here is yet another colorful creation by the same Phan whose colorful creation was shared by me in my last post. Only this time he is using a new nick name - PERTH.

The story is D195 - Terror At The Opera. Many of us may be having the Black and white version, but not everyone has the colored version. He has even put forth a kind of a colorful cover for the book-style presentation of the story.

So download the comic from his original link here, and shower your thanks to PERTH.

This might be my last post in a while, as I start my journey this Thursday.

Enjoy 

#688 - The latest Phantom Sunday story - The Ghost story, KALL's colored Frew Comic and a discussion of Dynamite's first Mandrake comic book.

Emile just sent me the latest Phantom Sunday story that ran for 25 weeks from June 01, 2014 through November 23, 2014. Here is the first panel :

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

While on the subject of the Phantom, I bring to you a colored Frew comic by one of our regular Phans who goes by the nickname KALL. When I first posted that in this blog, quite a few blogs including this one were hit by an expired widget, which would prevent others from viewing the blog unless they had a very secure version of the browsers they were using. Since this was something that requires a lot of hard work and patience (ask TPH), I thought it was worth a repost.

So download Frew #1376 from Kall's original link and offer your thanks to Kall.

Before I take leave of you all, here is a post about the new Mandrake comic soon to be brought out by Dynamite Comics. Take a look at the following:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/11/26/exclusive-first-look-inside-mandrake-the-magician-from-dynamite/

This might be my last post for a while, as I will be away for a month. I will be back during the end of January.

Enjoy

Batman's Sundays & Dailies Strips

More I'm reading strips, more liking strips than comics version.

Today sharing all Batman strips available with me.

The Superhero "Batman" is created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger & first appeared  in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939).  

However, the Batman comic strip first appeared in newspapers in 1943 only.

Summary of strips publication history:

• Batman and Robin (Oct 25, 1943 - Nov 2, 1946); daily and Sunday : By Bob Kane
• Batman and Robin (1953) Sunday only: By Walter Gibson & edited by Gibson.
• Batman and Robin, 1966 - 1974: By Bob Kane (actually ghosted)
• The World's Greatest Superheroes (1978 - 1986)
• Batman (from 6 NOV 1989 - 3 AUG 1991); Sunday and daily : The first story was written by Max Allan Collins and drawn by Marshall Rogers. All of the other stories were written by William Messner Loebs and drawn by Carmine Infantino and John Nyberg.

Russian The Phantom Collection

Only 4 Phantom comics were printed in Russian in 1992-93. I was  planning to scan, but found all 4 (c2c, each 30+ MB) files yesterday. 

1st Russian Phantom- Фантом #1-  Банда Дьяволов

Доп. информация: содержит историю "Банда дьяволов", оригинальное название истории: The Bad Ones (1964-65 гг.).

एस्ट्रिक्स ओलम्पिक में (First Hindi Asterix: Estriks Olampik me )

नमस्ते दोस्तों, आज लगभग दो वर्षों की तलाश के बाद मौका मिला है पहली  हिन्दी एस्ट्रिक्स  आप सभी के साथ आनंद लेने  का| 

प्रस्तुत है: "एस्ट्रिक्स  ओलम्पिक  में"  (English title: Asterix at the Olympic Games)  -१९८२

कुल ६ हिंदी एस्ट्रिक्स कॉमिक्स में से ४ पहले ही आप पढ़ चुके हैं, एक और अनुराग भाई के पास उपलब्ध है, लेकिन मैं इस अंक को खोज नहीं पा रहा था| और इस बार, भारत से नहीं, बल्कि  यूरोपीय संघ से एक प्रशंसक आगे आया जिसने अपना नाम गुप्त रखने  का आग्रह किया|  स्वच्छीकरण का कार्य मेरे द्वारा किया गया है|

जैसा  मैंने पिछले एस्ट्रिक्स पोस्ट में भी कहा था, इस अंक से मुझे विशेष लगाव है,  ना सिर्फ इससे  एस्ट्रिक्स से मेरा परिचय हुआ था,  बल्कि मेरी नज़र में कुल ६ हिंदी में से सबसे दिलचस्प भी है| 

Flash Gordon Daily Strips by Austin Briggs (All D1 - #1 to #11)

Here WE send you Rainbow message…

Dipped Colors of Joy and Happiness,
Those will make your Life even more Colourful..
Happy Holi!

There were 11 Flash Gordon Daily strips (1940-1944) by Austin Briggs.

#	Title	1st Run Period
D1-001	Princess Lita	(5/27/40 to 2/22/41)
D1-002	Freeland	(2/24/41 to 8/21/41)
D1-003	War on Earth	(8/22/41 to 12/13/41)
D1-004	Disaster in Space	(12/15/41 to 1/17/42)
D1-005	Shipwrecked	(1/19/42 to 4/25/42)
D1-006	Radium Mines of Electra	(4/27/42 to 7/11/42)
D1-007	Queen Tigra of Forestia	(7/13/42 to 11/26/42)
D1-008	Royal Hunt	(11/27/42 to 4/21/43)
D1-009	Isle of the Elvins	(4/22/43 to 3/25/44)
D1-010	The Menace of Mysta	(3/27/44 to 4/25/44)
D1-011	Home	(4/26/44 to 6/3/44)

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All credits to original uploaders.

Devils and Wonder Glasses 3D + Gold Key Flash Gordon #25

Today with this post Books and Comics reaches another milestone of 300 posts.

I am posting very special comic for the occassion, First 3D comics published in India.

It was published my Star Comics in 1980s. It started a new trend of 3D comics, but it did not last long. Mainly I feel due to bad stories, cost and also due to fake 3D comics in market.

TV Tornado Collection (1 to 88 + 3 Annuals)

Update (Jan 2021): Had regrouped all posts & added some more in one.

An unique Weekly Tabloid "TV Tornado"

Editor: Mick Anglo 

Publisher: City Magazines, UK 

Total issues: 88 issues + 3 Annuals
Format: Book & Comics

Strips and characters: Batman, Superman, Tarzan, The Phantom, Bonanza, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Green Hornet, The Saint, The Lone Ranger, Magnus Robot Fighter, The Invaders and Flash Gordon, plus features on subjects including Doctor Who and The Avengers. 

"The Phantom" appeared alongside many other comics in only a few pages in each issue except regular issue #36 and 1971 Annual which did not feature the Phantom at all. Each part of the Phantom stories had subtitle Several of the other comics were based on TV characters. "The Phantom" was on the cover of many issues, but usually with other characters in collage. The Phantom also appeared in two annual issues.

Frew #1- Enter The Phantom

Hello Friends!

One more friend is added in our contributors list - *Skullcave* with very handsome collection of Frew.

It's his first contribution:

Frew #0001- Enter The Phantom

Read Offline

Scanned by: Skullcave
Edited by: PBC

All thanks and credits go to Skullcave only.

The Phantom: Egmont (Eng Scanlation of Norwegian Edition)

Friends, these are Eng Scanlation of Fantomet.

1. Phantom - Year One 01 - The 21st Phantom 

2. Phantom - Year One 02 - Molok 

3. Phantom - Year One 03 - The Courier 

4. Phantom - Year One 04 - Johnny Hotwire 

5. Giovanna-09-2003

Note: All these were printed in Frew (b&w).

The first Diamond Comics; Tribute to Lee Falk (Frew) and The Phantom Project Kit (Frew)

Today 3 unique issues are debuting in Digit.

1. Did you read the first ever Diamond comics? No? Now you can!

The Phantom Encylopedia (2nd Editon)

Today's Presentation: A handbook for every the Phantom's fan

The Phantom Encyclopedia, Edition 2 was a separate supplement of The Phantom #1518 (2008).

The Phantom Encylopedia- 2nd Edition (2008)

scanned by: A. Misra

edited by: PBC