Saturday 31 May 2014

Return of 'The Phantom' !

The Indrajal era had come to an end by the 90's,however the popular characters of Phantom and Mandrake was seeing publication through Diamond comics (A new Delhi based Publisher).
These were stories for which rights had been acquired through King's syndicate features. Few from my Own collection-
Issue #8

Issue #13

Issue #14

Issue #31

Issue #32

Issue #39

Issue #40

Issue #41

Issue #45

Issue #47

Issue #54

Issue #65




Diamond Comics ceased the publication in 2000 and 'The Phantom' saw a re-incarnation with Egmont publications.(Indian express Egmont Publications Ltd.)

However the difference from previous publication history was they translated Scandinavian Phantom books to English.

Issue #1

Issue #6

Issue #9

Issue #13

Egmont's subsidiary euro books started publishing 'The Phantom' in India from the year 2000 onward.
Initially they started with a single 'The phantom' story with a backup mandrake story but soon,changed their format to 2 in 1 and later 3 -in-1 concepts.where 2 stories in one book and three stories in one book were introduced.




Both Diamond comics and Egmont have stopped publishing 'Phantom' comics but in between they come up with the reprints under different covers.

Scandinavia have had a rich diet of 'Phantom' since long, Uploading 2 books which my colleague gifted to me in Sweden from his own personal collection.(Thanks to David)





With the beautiful Christmas Pin-Up Adios from Your's truly!

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