Mac Raboy's Flash Gordon Sunday Collection (1948-67)

 It's a 4-volume series,each with 4-5 years worth of Mac Raboy's unedited b/w Flash Gordon sunday strips from 1948 to 1967.Yesterday I bought the 3rd volume('58-'62) through the on-line homeshop site(http://www.homeshop18.com/) and have to admit that,this is a very nice compilation of old sundays!
 The sundays were ranged from S033("On the Doom Comet") upto S105("The Moon Launcher").

PS - Allthough flipkart.com is another good source of these books,but the price there is way too high compare to the homeshop18.com(prices are 996 & 789,respectively,for the 3rd volume!!). 

Comic #76 : Speedy(S175) - A Rare Mandrake Sunday from '90s!

First of all,a belated happy new year to all of our visitors! In the first post of this year,let's enjoy this 'rare' MTM sunday strip from '90s! Now,why I'm calling a '90s strips - which is much newer than those '50s/'60s classic - a rare??Because,for some strange reason,MTM sundays & dailies from '90s are much tough to locate than those '60s or earlier!!A possible reason I guess,as lesser number of papers were carrying MTM strips in that period,as well as,hardly any publisher printed these strips made these much lesser accessible to fans!Even Frew opt for '30s classics in their short-stint with Mandrake in the '90s!But that is my guess only,may be there are other valid reasons as well.

Anyway,this time read the 3rd last official Falk sunday - Speedy(S175) - courtesy our extensive collector & avid fan Magnus & Dan.As you will notice,this 33-week strip have 3 different formats,as attached below(square,normal rectangle & vertical),that only indicates how difficult it was for Magnus to get a complete 6-week strip from various sources!
SO,ALL CREDITS GOES TO HIM! :))

DOWLOAD S175

Comic #75 : The Meeting of Mandrake and Lothar(S101)

Enjoy this special sunday strip,the famous tale of Mandrake & Lothar's very first meeting,in the original newspaper strip format. Eventually,this was the earliest MTM Sunday(S101) published in the Indrajal Comics(E#138:Famous Friendship).
Apart from this sunday,there is a re-post,as you will find the complete Kraken(S156) story for the 1st time in color.The earlier version was Pioneer's b/w scans but incomplete!

 DOWNLOAD S101

DOWNLOAD S156

Merry Christmas : Comic #74 : The Road House(S126) - A Mandrake Sunday from '70s

Merry Christmas to all blogger & visitor friends! :-)

ENJOY a short sunday strip that was skipped by ToI in the Indrajal Comics for some unknown reason.
This adventure happened just before Mandrake & Lothar's long(& eventful) journey to Harison University for their magic show and beyond that,started from S127(Ghost Town) till S136(Mr Ttazz).[Except S129(Man from Europa),all were subsequently published in Ijcs,within the issues #265 to #330.]

Now,read this complete strip on-line...

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Comic #72 & 73 : Mandrake Sundays : S142(Super Giant) & S148(Prince Nasdaq)

A couple of Falk-Fredricks sundays from the late '70s and early '80s for this time.These were already published in Indrajal Comics,like majority of MTM strips from those periods!Super Giant appeared in No.380(The Legend of the Giants)/সংখ্যা ৩৫৭(মহাদানবের খোঁজে) while Prince Nasdaq in Vol.20 No.32(The Avaricious Prince/আজব দেশের বন্দী). [You will find a few Swedish/Italian pages as replacement of the missing English counter-parts,but that won't harm the pleasure of reading.]

By the way,today Indrajal Forum has completed it's 1st anniversary,quite silently though,as I doubt whether anybody except me actually has noticed this! ;_  There are hardly any activities lately but I will try to keep alive this forum as long as possible, so at least visitors can read various older topics/discussions.
To be very honest,to form a forum on Indrajal Comics was kinda small tribute from my side to all Indrajal bloggers & fans.It's indeed quite fascinating to see how a mere comic-series,that too was cancelled more than two decades ago,has successfully created a special bonding among the millions of fans from the various backgrounds and ages!! I hope our love for this series will remain intact in the rest of our lives!

Now,enjoy these strips...
Bye & have fun!


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• S142 -  Super Giant(11-18-1979 to 2-17-1980)
  
  Download S142
  
  • S148 -  Prince Nasdaq(3-28-1982 to 8-29-1982)
  
  Download S148