#001.Why decided to start a new blog with already distributed books & comics? This post is dedicated to all comic lovers of INDRAJAL Comics.

Four-five years ago tried to find some favorite books and comics, but in vain. Two months ago, again decided to search, find out that many were available and now links are lost. Since last 2 months, I am on forced vacation. Till 15th Jan 2008, I will have a plenty of times. Initially I was collecting all possible books for myself which I want to read. But now wish to help to those people who gave a lot of time in searching like me. If I able to spread my favorites to 100 people, THE HARD WORK of those people will never be lost who scanned or uploaded for OTHERS. These books and comics will return back to the net, again and again for it lovers.
In childhood most part of the money spent on books. CHAMPAK, PARAG, CHANDAMAMA and NANDAN were bought for me by parents. But it was not enough for me. The very first comic was Phantom (Indrajal-1977). Parents were not agreeing with my choice for comics. But I spend all my pocket money on it. My collection is lost forever, but thanks to the following blogs, I’m recollecting again, not only for myself but for my twins too. Some are not publishing; some are not available everywhere.
Visit to encourage their GREAT EFFORTS:
http://thecomicproject.blogspot.com/
http://indrajal-comics.blogspot.com/
http://comic-guy.blogspot.com/
http://anupam-agrawal.blogspot.com/
http://mandrake-comics.blogspot.com/
http://thephantomhead.blogspot.com/

I’ll add links to sites from where you can take it yourself. If there is need, will rearrange them in one folder, but after sometimes with the kind permission of the CREATORS. Try to help to all fans, to find the book in shortest time. Time is the most valuable. Let’s use every saved second in reading or passing with the family and friends.
First post is for them who want to collect published copies of INDRAJAL COMICS as soon as possible. But for new one you have to go to the above one.

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Number 219

Brother Rats

I haven't shown you a crime comics story in a while. I ain't forgot you muggs what likes these yarns about murderers and killers. Here's a good one about some bad brothers.

The last of the wild Western train robberies, committed in 1923, is told in "Brother Rats," from Crime Does Not Pay #49, January 1947. The great artwork is by George Tuska. Tuska worked in comic books practically from the beginning of the industry until the 1990s. To me, his finest work was during this postwar period. I love the symbolic splash panel for this story.

As for the DeAutremont brothers--and despite how it's spelled in the story, their name is spelled without a space between De and Autremont-- it took years, but justice was eventually served.

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Number 218

Flash Kicks Axis!

This is a followup to Pappy's #215, scanned from Flash Comics #35. My copy of that issue of Flash Comics isn't complete: the cover and first wraparound are missing, but some great in-house ads are still intact. I especially like seeing All-Star Comics #13, with the rocketship cover, and Wonder Woman #1.



The ad for All-Flash Comics #7 has a misspelling: wierd for weird. That's a common enough mistake, since the writer was probably thinking about the English rule, i before e except after c. Except for a word like weird. The English language likes having its rules, but likes to break them, too. It's just weird that way. Looks like the editor was asleep when this one crossed his desk. Then we have Green Lantern #5, and that really annoying Doiby Dickles. I'm not real big on comic relief characters.



We've got comics from the DC line--Flash and the other books shown are from the All-American line, owned by Max Gaines in partnership with DC Comics--including one of the greatest phallic-symbol covers of all time, World's Finest Comics #7.*



Finally, a real treat: Flash heads to Europe--at least in a dream-- and kicks butt on the Axis gangstas, Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito. It's a nice example of a public service announcement, selling war bonds and stamps, written and drawn by Fox and Hibbard, the regular Flash team.

*Here's the cover in its full glory. Click on the picture to see it big.

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You Can Learn A Lot From Comics

Sometimes even I'm surprised at what turns out to be well-grounded. I was reading Atom #10 (Dec 1963-Jan 1964). The second story in that issue is called The Mysterious Swan-Maiden, in which Jean Loring is required to act as defense counsel for a swan.



Now looking at it, I thought that citation looked ridiculous, but when I typed it into Google (and Google corrected a minor error by asking if I wanted "fitzh abr barre pl 290"), I was taken to this page from a book on Privacy and the Constitution, where indeed the topic of animals being guilty of crimes is discussed:

The reader will see in this passage, as has been remarked already of the Roman law, that a distinction is taken between things which are capable of guilt and those which are not--between living and dead things; but he will also see that no difficulty was felt in treating animals as guilty.

Gardner Fox (who wrote the story) obviously knew his legal precedents! I should add that this discussion comes in a section on liability (i.e., torts), and that animals can not really be brought to criminal trial; that's a little bit of literary license.

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Number 217

Do do that voodoo…

Jerry Robinson has been named a creative consultant for DC Comics. It's recognition for a guy who had so much to do with not only early DC history, but history of the comics genre.

This is one of Robinson's early contributions, a story from Harvey Comics' Green Hornet #21, dated November, 1944. The cover is by Alex Schomburg.I'm sorry the reproduction of the story wasn't better, but even with the bad printing you can see at this time in his career Robinson, in his early twenties, was well ahead of the game as an artist.

The Green Hornet was a popular character first heard on radio. He had a good run in the comics. To those of us who grew up in the 1960s, Green Hornet was also a TV show, featuring Van Williams as Brit Reid, the Green Hornet, and Bruce Lee the kung-fu kickin' Kato.

When "The Corpse Who Walked Away" was published, interest in voodoo was keen due to stories about Haitian voodoo in popular newspaper Sunday supplements, and also movies on the subject.

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Number 216

Ghost Of Guam

Ten-hut!

Specialist Pappy reporting, sir! To honor this Veteran's Day, this old soldier has dug into his duffel bag of moldy comic books and pulled out Real Fact Comics #1, a DC comic dated March-April, 1946.

The story presented here is about sailor George R. Tweed, who eluded the Japanese on Guam for nearly three years. The artwork is by the great Fred Ray, who is best known for his long-running Tomahawk series, and outside of comics by his illustrated books on military uniforms.

Ray also drew this iconic Superman cover from 1942:
Ray died in 2001. George R. Tweed died in 1989.

To all the men and women who have served , or are currently serving in the Armed Forces, have a great Veteran's Day.

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Number 215

Modest maid, stalwart soldier, dastardly duke

Ed Wheelan's Minute Movies was a backup feature in Flash Comics until about 1945, but it began as a syndicated newspaper strip in the 1920s. In that form it ran until 1935. As its formula Minute Movies had a pseudo-movie chapter a day, but it used the same stock characters as stars, just like movie studios of the day. It also kept the silent film style well into the era of talkies. By the time it was revived in Flash Comics, it was nostalgia.

Wheelan was one of the old-timers who showed up in the 1940s to do comic book work. He kept his old-fashioned style long after other artists attempted to enter the contemporary mainstream. He finished his career in comics drawing Fat and Slat, a vaudeville-styled joke strip.

There have been some retrospectives of Minute Movies, the newspaper strip, published over the years. Hyperion Press did Minute Movies 1927-1928 in 1977, eleven years after Wheelan's death.Before that, Woody Gelman's Nostalgia Comics #2 reprinted part one of the 1933 continuity, "Serpents Of The City."
As far as I know, no one has ever tried to collect Wheelan's comic book work. This particular strip, "Intrigue," is from Flash Comics #35, November, 1942. Wheelan's style was from the 1920s, but still had its appeal, and he didn't try to modernize his technique.

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