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!

Disney's Comics , Zorro The Fox !

India saw a late resurgence of Disney's characters years after it was well established.
Chandamama children's trust or Chandamama publications is largely responsible for introducing whole heatedly to Indian readers. Chandamama had successfully been publishing  mythological magazines before and was well entrenched with readers, and decided to plunge in the lucrative comic industry in October 80.

There were some previous attempts in the 60's by Times Of India through Indrajal comics but lasted a few issues.
Chandamama set up the whole range of Disney characters in two separate lines.

A. Classics and comics which featured the popular Disney characters like Mickey Donald and also a regular feature dedicated to Zorro the fox.

Although Zorro was previously given an issue in 1967 by Indrajal comics #37 but was a one issue feature till Chandamama establishing a dedicated for Zorro starting from Issue #3 of Classics and comics.
Wonder World #3 reprints Dell #882 as re-represented by Alex Toth and made famous by Disney!

Wonder World issue #2

The Zorro Ad in issue #2

Wonder World issue #3 also the first issue of Zorro the Fox!

Wonder World issue #18

Wonder World issue #10

B. Book shelf series featuring complete story lines from Disney's movie lines.
The Book shelf series was intresting as it adopted movies Issue #1 Started with adoption of jungle book,which was a huge success.
From there on Book shelf series had very popular offerings like -
The black hole,Peter Pan,Return from witch mountain etc.

Book Shelf issue #1

Book Shelf issue #2

Book Shelf issue #8