Comic #140 - A Flash Gordon sunday in Bengali from 1978 : "Crash Landing"(Original title; S146)

 A continuation of their journey to Xalisco, Flash, Dale, Tasso & Tamina met the deadly queen Mesala. This sunday was serialized in Jugantar newspaper in 1978 and much later reprinted in the Indrajal Comics in Bengali titled "ভয়ঙ্করী রাণী মেসালা" in 1988. 

Again, to repeat what I have mentioned in the previous post, some panels were dropped in this Jugantar version of FG strips, most of which you will find in the Indrajal issue.

Read On!

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Basic Information :

Title/Serial No. : "Crash Landing"(No given title in Jugantar) (S146)

Artist : Dan Barry

Publication Period(strips) : 5-28-78 to 8-13-78

Publication Period/Date(Jugantar) : 11-12-78 to 2-4-79

Publication Period/Date(Indrajal) : 12-18-88 (V25 N51)

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Same strips, from the pages of Indrajal..

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Comic #138-139 : Two FG sundays from the late '70s in Bengali

 In this post you will read a couple of late '70s Flash Gordon sundays in Bengali, both were reprinted in Indrajal Comics under a single title "হারিয়ে যাওয়া মহাদেশ" in 1988. Just like the previous post, these strips were also reprinted in the Bengali newspaper Jugantar. 

Just one thing to keep in mind that, while these are the official version but not complete i.e. drop-panels(two left-side panels) were not included in this version. As a result, many of such 'drop' panels are available in the Indrajal as ToI did use the whole strip, even though the story was little edited to fit in their book-format. The fans who have this Indrajal issue, can easily compare these two versions.

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Basic Information :

Title/Serial No.: "Skorpi Hunters"(No given title in Jugantar) & "The Dark Side of  Xalisco!"/জালিসকোর রহস্য!(S144 & S145)

Artist: Dan Barry

Publication Period(strips): 12-11-77 to 5-21-78

Publication Period/Date(Jugantar): 5-28-78 to 11-05-78

Publication Period/Date(Indrajal): 11-13-88 (V25 N46)

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Same strips, from the pages of Indrajal..

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Comic #137 - A 1976 Flash Gordon sunday-strip in Bengali

 Bengali newspaper Jugantar reprinted Flash Gordon sundays in the 1976-79 period. This sunday story - originally titled "Lifeboat" and created by one and only Dan Barry - never reprinted in the Indrajal Comics, so this is the only source to read this sunday in Bengali.

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Basic Information :

Title/Serial No.: "Lifeboat"/শনিগ্রহের পথে (S138)

Artist: Dan Barry

Publication Period(strips): 5-30-76 to 8-15-76(12 sundays) 

Publication Period/Date(Jugantar): 11-14-76 to 1-23-77(11* sundays) [*Jugantar skipped the 5-30 sunday]

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Comic #136 : Princess Pam by Dave Stevens

While we are waiting for the 40th anniversary Artist's edition of Rocketeer by late Dave Stevens, lets read a different comics by him.

My introduction with Dave Stevens was thru the art book "Covers & Stories" in the late 2017. This was even before my introduction with Cliff & co. which would be in 2019. This book has several b&w cover-arts by DS and some of his complete b&w comics - directly shot from the original pages. "Princess Pam" - a sci-fi take of the Snow White fantasy - was one of those. This was an one-off short comic originally published in the Alien World #4. Couple of years ago I have finally managed to collect the Alien World issues reprinted Dave's comics, plus the breathtaking covers.

 I am posting both b&w and colored versions of this comic. While the colored version is spectacular, the large size b&w version helps to study Dave's finer details better.

B&W version - 

Colored version - 

"Covers & Stories" & "Alien Worlds #4"

Comic #135 : Money & Power(D147) - A 1987 Rip Kirby strip

 

Another Rip daily from the period of Indrajal Comics. This particular strip was published in the Indrajal Comics as a 2nd story(Vol. 25 No. 38-39; 1988 -  Bengali title was "Satarka Pratishodhdata(সতর্ক প্রতিশোধদাতা)" - I don't have the English version of these Indrajal issues).

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Basic Information:

Title/Serial No.: Money & Power(D147)

Writer/Artist: John Prentice

Publication Period(strips): 2-9-87 to 4-25-87(66 dailies)

Publication Period/Date(Indrajal Comics): Sept-1988 (Vol. 25 No. 38-39)

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Some inside pages from the Bengali Indrajal issues -