Marvel's UK Imprint - Covers/Panels

#460 - 1980 Spider man and Hulk

One of my favourite panel  ROM ,though i haven't been able to get his book.

The Hell Cat Origin series - The b&w panel is still mesmerizing.

This panel made me fall for detail art work.

The nuiances of being from a small town.

Many moons had passed since my first 2 Marvel UK imprints and i have been dreaming about them for quite some time now.My heart was yearning for more so i pleaded to my dad for getting me a few more of those Marvel imprints.

I was waiting in  wild anticipation for a complete week thinking aloud to myself what would be it like to go though more of those pages and finally my dad brought me 3 more of Marvel imprints and declared that they were the last ...i was shocked i had just started my journey into me graduating as a full time comic afficondo when it came to an abrupt stop with just 5 piece!

I had dreamt of opening a library where i would be the librarian and before my dreams could even fly it came down like a pack of cards.

I was informed that the guy from whom my dad was purchasing the books was facing problems in sourcing them from the then Calcutta and hence he has decided to keep books for IIT instead of comics !
What a wako books for IIT took a higher prcedence than comics ...well that was that his business his money and the sufferer is a poor soul like me ,i thought to myself why o god wasn't i borned in calcutta so that i could walk the streets and pick my books ...well for the moment i was happy that i could lay my hands on atleast 3 of them.

Inspiration!

Tales from the Crypt

My parenting was strict , what can i say in those days it was no different from a hostel and often my dad used to warn me that he would pack me to hostel if i cross my limits! Duh..i wasnt sure at that time where i was in the first place..anyways Jokes apart, Hindi movies was strictly banned and in the same lines Hindi comics were too, the general line of thought was that  i might pick up cuss words which might eventually reflect in my speech as well...hmmm...going by that line it was decided that only english comics would be fed to me.(This happened when i was caught reading a hindi comics during my study hours 6PM - 9PM)

Well one fine evening dad got me 2 comics (Marvel's weekly UK imprint) which caught my fascination and has not left me even to this day.

John Buschema at his best i could never picture Conan anything else !

Valour- Marvel's UK weekly Imprint #4

The Indian Comic Collector r u Kiddin?

So here iam after having been thinking of doing this for last 5 years!
Ok so since i'm here i will start with what i'm supposed to do..discussing comics and the Indian collectors.

True that we are laughed off at and have been branded as "Kids..never grow up" which is what the general perception is of this small group but things have been looking bright now and hell we even had an Indian Comic Con as well on the lines of American comic con!

No more rumbling so getting back at the business of collecting comics which is not so shiny out here in India.
Mostly fragmented I remember a few publishers from when i was a kid
ACK - Yes no introductions needed  for Uncle Pai!
INDRAJAAL - from the house of TOI (Phantom,Mandrake,Flash Gordon,Bruce Lee in his only comic avataar i guess,Rip Kirby,Drake,Buzz Swayer,Bahadur and Garth guys am i missing something here please correct me!)
STAR - From the house of IBH,they had 3 characters lined up James bond 007,Amitabh Bacchan as a Superhero (God knows what made them do that!) and Superman.
DALTON Comics - I have seen mostly Batman and Superman imprints
Falcon Comics - They started with Beetle bailey,Blondie and later also included Marvel's Conan (Mostly their Annuals) and Spiderman.
Kiran Comics - They had only 3 Tarzan,Korak son of Tarzan and Laurel and Hardy.
Disney World - Disney toons bonus was Zorro the fox!

Will be continued..