WOW! WOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! Yeahhhhhhhh.....

That's what we all Indian fans are currently feeling!!!WE AGAIN BEAT Ugly Aussies,the so-called No.1 in ICC TEST Ranking,by a remarkable 2-0 margine in this just ended 4-TEST Border-Gavaskar Trophy! :D

What a day it was and what a series we watched in the last 5 weeks or so!!!For many reasons people will remember this 8th B-G Trophy,apart from retirement of 2 greats Kumble & Sourav,a great bunch of gen-next players like Ishant(MoS),Misra,Gambhir etc brilliantly contributed in Team's effort! Also Dhoni,about whom many thought(incld. me) he'll be immature for the test-captaincy and so our selectors but after the way he lead-from-front in BOTH of our thumping victories in Mohali & Nagpur,now it's certain that,after Dada -India's most sucessful Test captain ever, he's going to be the NEXT BEST CAPTAIN INDIA EVER HAVE! Kudos him!:-)

CONGRATS TEAM INDIA FOR GIVING US SUCH A JOYFUL VICTORY & THANKS Dada/Kumble FOR THEIR TREMENDOUS SERVICE IN LAST 2 DECADES!! :-)


PS - A Small stat,that will state how we deal with Aussies:
In ALL 8 Border-Gavaskar trophies,since 1996,India won 4 times while Australia won just 3 times leaving 1 was draw! And among 26 tests were played in those years ,BOTH Teams won 10 matches each and rest 6 were draw! And don't forget that "Sydney Test" which is also included in this stat!;-)

Comic #36 : Mandrake Daily:Otiter Podochinho(Footstep from the Past:D246): Part-I

First Bengali Comic scan in this blog!ENJOY!!:-)

This is my effort in order to bring Mandrake's Bengali strips on-line,,in a Book-format with an introductory panel which's bit like ComicCrazee kinda effort ;-)!! Between,where are you?? This one is titled as "Otiter Podochinho" OR "Footstep from the Past", a 2004-Daily! This one is special as dealt with a vintage criminal from Falk-Davis era : The Great Grando!! :o)

As the whole strip is a 32-pager,thus I'll publish in 3 parts,as compilation & editing from the original single strips is bit lengthy job but matter of fact,this is quite exciting for me!!Hope you'll like it!:-)

Part-II coming soon....

Hello ALL! :-)

Hello friends!!After a long time we are meeting here,eh?? ;-) Others like ICC & ANUPAM are completely out-of blogging while MTM,CW & TCP are bit inconsistent!ohh ye,,me too in the same line!But no more from now onwards,I guess! ;-) And positive side is PRABHAT & TPH are doing wonderful jobs by posting in a regular interval,specially Prabhat!Keep it up buddies.... :D
In between I was experimenting with some new things in Comics strips,,,and the latest one is hunting for old Bengali Mandrake strips(B/W) and then re-arranging/editing those to create a book-format!In this process I've collected a few Bengali Mandrake strips in a single-strip/page format and then converting 'em in a regular book-frame! This takes some times though,but I'm working on it and soon here will be a NEW Bengali strips for our Bengali fans of this fascinating Magician and be sure that it's English version is yet-to-be appeared in On-line ,be it in Bala's MTM blog or Aman's On-line site!So just wait for few more days friends... :-)
By the way,I was also converting colored English strips with Bengali fonts(from the b/w version),in order to get a colored Bengali version of the same!here's one sample...

First,the original English Colored strip:





Then,the Original Bengali B/W strip:






And the RESULT! :-)




In order to keep the original coloring intact,I'd to re-colored some panels(after putting the Bengali texts in place of English counter-part) .So,you can understand it's been bit tiresome job,but at the same time pretty exciting(& fun) too,,,:-)
SEE YOU SOON! Keep visiting.....

"Independence Day" Release:Comic #33, 34 & 35:TRIPLE BONANZA:Phantom & Mandrake Dailies

For every human being FREEDOM is the 'next' important thing after oxygen i.e. life! And we've earned our much awaited freedom exactly 61 years ago,on this very day:15th August!! :-)

There are 3 Phantom/Mandrake comics for all of you on this VERY SPECIAL occasion,a small token from this friend who's a firm believer of one thing:an out-n-out enemy is FAR BETTER than those 'back-stabbing' friends!

Whatever are happening recently in India,those blasts,those destructions and terrorist activities which are meant to destroy our peace,wealth,life,,IN SHORT EVERYTHING!!And our government is still trying to be friendly with 'those' countries which are the main source/master-minds of these destructions & terrorist activities!!

But if this meant we're going to take these nonsense casually,then they are COMPLETELY wrong!!Truth is ,more they attack us,more we'll be determined to give 'em a tit-for-tat,,,BUT FOR THAT we have to be firmly united 'cos this is NOT a problem of Mumbai/Hyderabad or Kolkata alone,BUT ALL OVER India!It's a deep conspiracy from a few 'well known' enemy agents and instead of aware their 'original' source,we are(read our government) allowing 'em!!

HOPE WE'LL LEARN FROM OUR PAST MISTAKES and will act accordingly!!!

JAI HIND!!!!!
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[1] Mandrake: D229:Aliens(1998) ..one of the Falk-Fredrick's last dailies!

Download D229

[2] Phantom:D166:Rex,Prince of Baronkhan(1989) ....a story of cruel conspiracy against Rex and how our beloved Vetal aka Phantom dealt with that!:-)

Download D166

[3] Mandrake :D235: Return of Clay Camel(2000) ....another 'return' from this well known master-of-disguise who'd appeared very first time in '30s era,now made his first time appearance in Post-Falk period in 2000! A fascinating tale as usual....

D0wnload D235

ENJOY!!!

The Mystery of Hojo!!

Was just re-reading an article on this inherent character of MTM strips,and thought this particular mystery is worthy 'nuff to share in blog,which is quite amazing(& amusing too!). :-)

I'm talking about Hojo- the mysterious chief of Inter-Intel(the world-wide secret secret organisation that collects information’s about crimes all over the world). Hojo's first appearance was in 1967 i.e. just in next year of the introduction of that secret bureau!! Started as Xanadu's chef-come-body guard,later he was 'revealed' as the secret chief of I-I in 1976(md-169:The Mysterious Chief).Except Mandrake ,no body was aware of his 'real' identity,included Jed - head of the NY branch of Inter-Intel !!

Later Lothar also learnt Hojo's real identity,when "8" kidnapped him(md-185:Hojo and 8) unknowing who he was,and Mandrake had to tell Lothar the truth in that moment-of-crisis!!

But,here's a baffling mystery regarding whether Hojo was the "Original" chief of Inter-Intel(i.e. from the beginning) or just a late-entry by Falk??

Probably he was NOT considered as the 'Original' Chief as there's a strip from 1975(md-163:The Thieves) where you can see when some thieves entered in Xanadu & tried to rob the amazing Crystal Cube,Hojo was present at that scene wid Narda & Karma.And at the SAME TIME,Mandrake was in a conference wid the secret chief of I-I!!! [you can see 'that' strip in the left side,which's the French version courtesy Peder]. So,there's two options:either Hojo had a high-tech Robot who can give prompt(& appropriate!) answers to visitors 'any' query in his absence OR Falk was then yet-to-decide a suitable person for that post(more probable!).

Between,another interesting info regarding that strip (md-163:The Thieves)is that,for some unknown reason(s),it NEVER published in either of Ijc/DC,allthough it's continuation part,md-164:Return of the Cube,was very much published by ToI in Ijc #286(Magic mantle) and that's why,Indian Mandrake fans completely missed this 'mystery' ,which you first time heard in Xanadu-site & now here!! :D