Indrajal Comics

Indrajal Comics was an Indian comic book series launched by the publisher of The Times of India, Bennet, Coleman & Co. in March of 1964.

History

The first 32 issues of Indrajal Comics contained "The Phantom" stories, but thereafter, the title alternated between various King Features Syndicate characters, including "Mandrake the Magician", "Flash Gordon", and "Buz Sawyer". Later it also published "Bahadur", an Indian comic hero created by Aabid Surti.

A total of 803 issues of Indrajal Comics were published, ceasing in April of 1990. #123 and 124 were never published due to an industrial strike. 414 of these included Phantom stories.

The Indrajal books often contain colorized versions of Phantom stories, edited with expanded, reduced or omitted panels, to fit the format of the comic book. The stories were mostly daily and Sunday stories, with several Gold Key/King/Charlton stories, some Fratelli Spada stories and one Team Fantomen story.

Language versions

From the first issue in 1964, Indrajal Comics was available in several language editions. English and Hindi seems to have been the main editions, that were published weekly during the entire run of the series. Other editions were added in later years, and were sometimes released with a different periodicity than the main editions. Each language edition had a different registration number with the Registrar of Newspapers for India

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Language	First Phantom issue	Last Phantom issue	Total number of Phantom issues	The Phantom's name	Periodicity	Reg. nr.
English	Indrajal Comics #1 (1964)	Indrajal Comics Vol. 27 No. 6 (1990)	414	The Phantom	weekly	11478
Hindi	Indrajal Comics #1 (1964)	Indrajal Comics Vol. 27 No. 6 (1990)	414	Vetaal	weekly	11480, 39229
Gujarati	Indrajal Comics #11 (1965)	?	?	?	monthly	11481
Marathi	ca 1966	?	?	?	monthly, biweekly	11479, 49798
Bengali	Indrajal Comics #23 (1966)	Indrajal Comics Vol. 27 No. 6 (1990)	392	Betal	monthly,twice-a-month,weekly & again twice-a-month	?
Tamil	? (1969)	? (1987)	150+	?	biweekly	35903
Arabic	? (1977)	?	at least 18	?	monthly	31564
Kannada	Indrajal Comics #349 (1980)	?	?	Bethala / Fantom / Phantom	biweekly	35904
Malayalam	Indrajal Comics #381 (1981)	?	?	?	monthly, weekly	11482, 37710
Telugu (unconfirmed)	?	?	?	?	?	?

Issue overview

1960's

1964	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1965	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
1966	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
1967	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56
1968	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76
1969	77	78	79	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	100

1970's

1970	101	102	103	104	105	106	107	108	109	110	111	112	113	114	115	116	117	118	119	120	121	122
1971	125	126	127	128	129	130	131	132	133	134	135	136	137	138	139	140	141	142	143	144	145	146	147	148
1972	149	150	151	152	153	154	155	156	157	158	159	160	161	162	163	164	165	166	167	168	169	170	171	172
1973	173	174	175	176	177	178	179	180	181	182	183	184	185	186	187	188	189	190	191	192	193	194	195	196
1974	197	198	199	200	201	202	203	204	205	206	207	208	209	210	211	212	213	214	215	216	217	218	219	220
1975	221	222	223	224	225	226	227	228	229	230	231	232	233	234	235	236	237	238	239	240	241	242	243	244
1976	245	246	247	248	249	250	251	252	253	254	255	256	257	258	259	260	261	262	263	264	265	266	267	268
1977	269	270	271	272	273	274	275	276	277	278	279	280	281	282	283	284	285	286	287	288	289	290	291	292
1978	293	294	295	296	297	298	299	300	301	302	303	304	305	306	307	308	309	310	311	312	313	314	315	316
1979	317	318	319	320	321	322	323	324	325	326	327	328	329	330	331	332	333	334	335	336	337	338	339	340

1980's/1990's

1980	341	342	343	344	345	346	347	348	349	350	351	352	353	354	355	356	357	358	359	360	361	362	363	364
1981	365	366	367	368	369	370	371	372	373	374	375	376	377	378	379	380	381	382	383	384	385	386	387	388	389	390	391	392	393
1982	394	395	396	397	398	399	400	401	402	403	404	405	406	407	408	409	410	411	412	413	414	415	416	417	418	419	420	421	422	423	424	425	426	427	428	429	430	431	432	433	434	435	436	437	438	439	440	441	442	443
1983	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52
1984	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53
1985	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52
1986	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52
1987	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52
1988	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52
1989	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42
1990	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8

This article, in the version of February 12 2008, includes information from Wikipedia: Indrajal Comics.