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Saturday, February 15, 2014

BTT #11 : A TRIPLE POST - James Bond, Walt Disney and Raat Gobhir(A Horror Story)

  • JAMES BOND COMICS :
Probably one of the first 007 Bond comics(if not the very first) in Bengali. This Ian Fleming's original(For your Eyes Only) was drawn by first Bond artist :  John McLusky. And the illustration was superb.
 On 2009, Titan released some volumes of JB comic-strips where the first volume was exclusively for JM's strips!
 [ Indian comic fans might remember that Diamond Comics introduced James Bond in the '90s and published several issues but majority of  those were by Yaroslav Horak - another prominent Bond artist.]
  • Title of the Story : একান্ত গোপনীয়(For your Eyes Only ; 10th Daily strip)
  • Publication period(in Bengali) : Anandamela Pujabarshiki 1989(১৩৯৬)
  •   Walt Disney's COMICS :
The first Walt Disney's comic-strip appeared in the monthly Anandamela issues,although this series was already introduced in the Pujabarshiki!
  • Title of the Story : ডাইনোসর-চুরি(One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing ; 87th Sunday strip)
  • Publication period(in Bengali) : Anandamela Monthly issues from 1976(২য় বর্ষ ৩য় সংখ্যা - ৯ম সংখ্যা ; ১৩৮৩)
And the 3rd part of this post, a short but intriguing Bengali ghost story by Harinarayan Chattopadhay...
  • Title of the Story : রাত গভীর
  • Publication period : Anandamela April 1975(১ম বর্ষ  ১ম সংখ্যা ; ১৩৮২)
Now time for some trivia :
  Billy's boot was once again appeared in the Anandamela Pujabarshiki 1989(১৩৯৬),after his first appearance on 1983(১৩৯০),but this time he was not Bilas Roy but Billy Dane i.e. publisher retained the original name.It's quite amusing though to see a character in two different names under same publication within few years only,indicating they didn't check the archive before posting!
 But in this Anandamela, it was only a 2-pager,so not exactly a full-story but like a filler!
 And last but not the least, we all are familiar with Iznogaud and Timpa - two completely different comic-series - in English book-format,but do you know that they had their own Bengali series?? Yes,a quite lesser known publihser, Bingsha Shatabdi,published some issues of these series in Bengali in the late '80s as you can see the ads from an Anandamela issue.
 Only regret is that neither I have ever seen any of those issues in old-book shops nor the publisher is showing any response...might be they have moved in a different direction!
Anyway,it's amazing to see how rich Bengali comic-culture was in those days of  '70s and '80s till '90s...

8 comments:

শুভাগত said...

Ei Iznogoud-er bangla comicsti amar kache ache. Scan korar echchhe roilo.

ranjan gangopadhyay said...

@hojo thanks a bunch for the nice comics's ...........

HojO said...

@Suman : Hopefully we will see the scan someday...at least someone has the issue...

@Ranjan:Welcome!

som0303 said...

Timpa r iznogaud er kotha sunei porte ichchha korchhe!
@Suman, tumi nije scan kore ba kauke diye scan korie boi ta aamader porar sujog kore dao plz..........bangla sahityer esab amulyo sampod harie jete dio na.....







Sitabhra Sinha said...

Thank you so much for the Disney strips from Anandamela - I remembered this vaguely from my childhood and reading it again brings back memories... I am very grateful to you for this. Look forward to more scans from the Anandamelas of the 1970s.

Somnath Dasgupta said...

জেমস বন্ড এর কমিকস রবিবারের আজকাল কাগজে বেরোতো অন্তত ১৯৯৪ এ।

Debajyoti Guha said...

hojo,
prothomei apnar post tir jonno dhonnobad janai.
bingshosatabdi theke Timpa'r duti comics ebong Iznogud ekti beriyechilo, 3 ti comics aamar kaache aache, icche aache scan korar ebong apnader sathe share korar.

BNayak said...

James bond er comics guli " jugantar " potrikaay daily prokashito hoto , Modesty Blaise er saathe