Phantom Comic Book Survey

UPDATE: Exactly 1 year ago,on 2nd April, Team INDIA won the ICC Cricket WC 2011.Memories of that unforgettable night(& the following days) are coming back in my mind(& million of Indian fans aswell)!! :o)
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From The Phantom Phorum:

Calling all Phantom Phans in Australia, India and Sweden!!!!

Phantom Comic Book Survey

According to the researcher Mr.Kevin: "I am looking for English-speaking participants, aged 18-years and over, to answer an online survey that will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. I am seeking people from Australia, India and Sweden who currently read (or who used to read) The Phantom, either as a newspaper/magazine comic-strip, or in comic books – or both. I would also be interested to hear from people in Australia, India and Sweden who have watched film, television or video game versions of The Phantom, or who have collected Phantom merchandise.

 Participation in this survey is completely voluntary and anonymous. No identifying information (such as people’s names or email address) will be collected. You are free to discontinue the survey at any point."

Let's help him to complete his work by participating in this survey on our beloved character : The Phantom aka Betal!! 

Comic #80 : Mandrake Sunday : Dr Ffark's Cosmic Circus(S152)

 Another '80s strip.Another from Indrajal era.Another from Magnus' collection.

 And this is my 150th post at The Lost World something that took allmost 5 years!I have been lazy,I know but truly enjoyed every bit of blogging courtesy our fellow bloggers like TCP,Zaheer,Sudhanshu,Anupam,Bala,Prabhat,Walker to name a few & of course,the ardent visitors! :_))
 Also,if one look at the nature of these posts,it's quite evidently I was more frequent on Mandrake(73 posts ; 49%) than anything else.There was at least one Mandrake comic in allmost all of my milestone posts and this is no exception either! :o) [The 2nd & 3rd most frequent other heroes/series are Indrajal Comics(48 posts ; 32%) & The Phantom(41 posts ; 27%). ]

ENJOY!!

• S152 - Dr Ffark's Cosmic Circus(1984):

[NOTE:This Sunday was appeared in Indrajal Comics in V23 N19(The Dragour From Vega-3/ভেগার শাসক ড্রেগার) on 1986. I have attached a couple of vintage Indrajal pages(with the issue cover) and their strip counter-parts.]

                                     DOWNLOAD S152

The Smurfs

 For those who came in late....Smurfs are a group of small blue fictional creatures, created and first introduced as a series of comic strips by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo(pen name of Pierre Culliford) on October 23, 1958. A characteristic of the Smurf language is the frequent use of the word "smurf" and its derivatives in a variety of meanings. The Smurfs replace enough nouns and verbs in everyday speech with "smurf" as to make their conversations barely understandable: "We're going smurfing on the River Smurf today." When used as a verb, the word "Smurf" typically means "to make", "to be", "to like" or "to do".


 I was introduced with this funny series in Anupam's blog in 2007 where he posted the scans of '70s 3-issue mini-series by Marvel and loved this series at very first instance(also there was a blogger named 'Grouchy Smurf' who gave us a preliminary idea of this series). But there was no more new story available on-line or physically, until last week when I accidentally discovered this series, now under a new publisher Papercutz, on flipkart.com/homeshop.com etc. These books are available in full-color @decent price and the printing quality is top-class on glossy pages.I hope our one of the old bloggers & visitors, Grouchy Smurf aka Pattu,will love to hear this(if he hasn't already bought the titles) as he was one who told us about these funny smurfs! :-)




Currently following 9 titles are availble:

• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
• The Purple Smurfs 
• Smurfette
• The Smurfs and The Egg
• The Smurfs King
• The Smurfs and the Howlibird 
• Astrosmurf
• The Smurf Apprentice 
• Gargamel and the Smurfs

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Some covers....

Comic #79 : Mandrake Sunday : The Bee Thief (S170; Italain)

Do any fan have this strip in English??Till date,I have only managed to get this Italian version of this '93 sunday courtesy one & only Magnus.There are few more strips we have from '90s in mixed Eng+Italian version.Between,can you find out the similarity of the basic plot with some classic Mandrake daily,eventually that was published in Indrajal?? :)

DOWNLOAD THE STRIP

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Also check out these 2 vertical sunday pages from a couple of Post-Falk sundays,The Bullies(S178) & The Invisible Person(S179).Do these ring any bell?? It certainly will,if you are a seasoned Mandrake fan! ;o) 

Comic #77 & 78 : Mandrake Sundays : Lothar's Workout(S141) & The Rat Men(S145)

Enjoy two colored MTM sundays from the '79 and '80,respectively.These were earlier published in the Indrajal Comics aswell. Lothar's Workout was appeared as 2nd story in Ijc No.331(Lothar the Mighty)/সংখ্যা ৩০৯(শক্তিমান লোথার) and The Rat Men was the title story of Ijc No.422(Mandrake's Godchild)/সংখ্যা ৩৯৯(আকাশপারের মৃত্যুদূত).
This time you can read the original unedited colored strips courtsey dear Magnus & Dan.

• Lothar's Workout(S141):

Download S141

•  The Rat Men(S145):

Download S145