....remember this famous caption of Indrajal Comics in the late '80s??(though it was applicable rightly from the beginning!!!isn't it friends??
Being an ardent Indrajal fan,I've cherished every bit of these
'long lost' gems.Thus,it's NOT only the original 'comic-pages' but those ads/other stuffs do matter a lot!
In short,each & every "Indrajal Pages" are priceless gems for us! :)
From the last few days,I was just curious how many
"Indrajal-pages" were published
in TOTAL(incld.those Covers/Ads/Features etc besides the original comics ) in those 803 issues!
So I'd looked in this matter more seriously & matter of fact,after bit
research I delighted to learn the exact 'figure'.
Now,while the first 28 issues(Ijc
No.1 -No.28) were contained
28 pages each.Then Indrajals were published in
conventional & most familiar
32-page format (except
few 'bumper' issues in between,like
No.49,272,278 etc) which ran for more than
23 years(Ijc
No.29 -No.788/Vol.26 No.32) and it covers 757 issues(out of total 803).Then on August 1989,i.e. just before
8-9 months of cancellation their series,ToI briefly converted
Indrajal Comics in a 36-pager(
Vol.26 No.33/No.789 - V27 No.8/No.805) & this includes
last 17 issues!
So,numerically the
TOTAL 'Indrajal Pages' = 25,800+(covering total 803 issues) .
Personally,I don't prefer to collect books/comics just for the
sake of collection(i.e.
not intend to read actually).That's the reason why I'd rejected most of the times those
B-graded Buz/Garth/Nomad/Corrigan etc with crappy Charlton/King-Phantom/King-Mandrake/King-Flash which covers
~200 Indrajals!Well,I'd collected
some of these but never liked!
Anyway,things have been changed
quite a lot in the last few months & nowadays I'm looking for
any Indrajals which are missing(irrespective of titles/heroes) from my collection(physical) or even those I've as
cover-less,i.e. missing those
4-page front/back covers!
I would like to check those 'other' stuffs like various ads & Henry(aka Gunodhar)/Chimpoo/Babua etc cartoons & of course Timpa's adventure series or that funny Magician Pasha & that Agent003(comic-Bond). Then,there are many various informative-yet-mind blowing Features like Riplies or Capries(contains 'amazing & unique infos' on animals from various parts of the world with funny displays in each of it's 45 episodes) or World's tale(valuable infos on 'Jurassic periods'....art-work was also and many more which are no less important/nostalgic for us...
Now coming to an another topic,do our
Indrajals Lovers have noticed that the
headers of 'Indrajal Comics' were changed for as much as
four times!
Here's some display of covers in which headers were changed with times.After the
glorious introduction in 1964,the first change was happened in 1967 .
Then in 1983, Indrajal converted in typical
Vol.No. category from the
individual No.s so also header converted in a pretty
larger size! The last change was happened in 1989 when Ijc briefly returned in a fortnightly schedule from it's
7-year-long weekly pattern!
Finally,the
price! I still remember,even that
price-tag(it was at the
bottom side of cover,earlier in a box
& later in a circular or simply in an open-format
) itself make me nostalgic,since I'd
re-started my
'Ijc-hunt' few years back! In the glorious ~27-year-run,Indrajal-fans experienced a pretty cheap price(compare to 'other' comic-publications) which started with 0.6/- (in 1964) & finished at 6.0/- (in 1990) per copy!wow.. even those ordinary Diamond Comics were relatively higher rated!! :)
Cheers!!!
