BTT #24 - Stories from the First-Phase Anandamelas(1975-1979)

 Four stories from four different Anandamela from the first-phase....i.e. from 1975(1382) - 1979(1386) period when this was a monthly magazine.

  In the first phase of Anandamela,we had 51 issues in the first 51 months i.e. for a stretch of 4 years and 3 months(Apr'75 - Jun'79) before the magazine shifted from monthly to fortnightly but the size reduced drastically,almost half of the original shape...

I was searching for these 51 issues since the last few years and before the last week,I was missing 5 issues from which I got 4.....so the score is 50/51 and only 1 remains to track(Boishak/1385) ! :) [till Dec'13 I had only two issues but since Jan'14,I was getting these issues regularly,alongwith the later years aswell..]

These are the new haul...

The four selected stories....

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Now a Tarzan 'news'(from 'Joyistha/1384')...as Tarzan was halted for some 6-7 months,so publisher had to explain the reason and so.. :-)

Few Tarzan pages from these issues..

Apart from Tarzan,the famous Noleda...

Besides these Anandamela,that day was fruitful with many Bengali and English novels/books,some of which I was searching for long!

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 By the way,one of out visitors,Suman once pointed out to Mr. Herze - the famous creator of TINTIN - about a small mistake in the story "Bombete Jahaj" that first published serially in 1976-77 Anandamela issues(where he probably saw that mistake). The same story later published as book on 1996 and that mistake was rectified there,as promised by Herze himself!! :-)

 Here you can see both 'original'(from the 1977 Anandamela) and the 'rectified'(book) version from 1996..

BTT #22 - Russ Manning's Tarzan Sunday - Return to Opar [Conclusion]

Conclusion of "Return of Opar" from the pages of vintage Anandamela!

Some moments...

 Queen La,being herself at the danger,still worries about Tarzan!! They say love is blind...I guess,it's selfless too!! right??

A new girl,and...a Love Triangle?? Not likely...La is not in that mood! ;-)

Finally,Tarzan rescues the queen....

DOWNLOAD Part-II(Conclusion)

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 Now the cover-gallery of the remaining Anandamelas from which this part has been scanned(from বর্ষ ২ সংখ্যা ৪/ July'76 to বর্ষ ২ সংখ্যা ৯/ Dec'76) ...

BTT #21 - Russ Manning's Tarzan Sunday - Return to Opar [Part-I]

This was the 2nd Tarzan sunday strip published in the monthly Anandamela issues from the mid '70s. Art was as usual done by Russ Manning!

This story ran in 14 issues from Nov'75(বর্ষ ১ সংখ্যা ৮) to Dec'76(বর্ষ ২ সংখ্যা ৯) issues, where in each issue as many as 4 color pages were published!
[The very first story of Tarzan @Anandamela has been already posted here. That story ran from the issue dated June'75(বর্ষ ১ সংখ্যা ৩ ) to Nov'75(বর্ষ ১ সংখ্যা ৮ ).]

It's about that lost city Opar,queen La and how Tarzan rescues both Jane and that beautiful queen who is in love with him!

  And mystery continues.......

Read Part-I of "Return to Opar"

Enjoy!
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PS - Here is the cover-gallery of those Anandamela's from where Part-I of this strips has been scanned(বর্ষ ১ সংখ্যা ৮ to বর্ষ ২ সংখ্যা ৩ )...

BTT #10 : Two 'First' Anandamelas AND A Russ Mannings' TARZAN Strip

• First Anandamela Pujabarshiki : Sept 1971(বঙ্গাব্দ ১৩৭৮)
• First Anandamela Patrika : Apr 1975(বঙ্গাব্দ ১৩৮২)

  In the last few days fortune favored and I have managed to add the above mentioned two first Anandamelas and the first two years worth - Apr'75 to Mar'77 - of mashik Anandamela(among the 24 issues,all are in good shape and except #1 all are with covers!).
[These buys were bit pricey as sellers understand the craze very well and Pujabarshikis as well as the first 2 years worth of mashik Anandamela(1975-77) were charged highly! Anyway,not every day you come across these rarer stuffs and some other sellers might demand even higher prices,so I went for the whole buy!]

 You might remember that our fellow blogger Mahashobir was the person who, for the first-time, told us about Pujabarshiki's introductory issue,that's on 1971,which was 4 years earlier than the first monthly magazine!

But the cover was missing that time which you can see here :

Also few other earliest Pujabarshikies :

 Now,the 'first year first issue' of Anandamela was released on Apr 1975(you can see the Index as my issue is missing the cover) :

 Earliest issues were filled with many rare articles,novels,stories,(Indrajal ads!!) and of course,colored comics of Herzes' TINTIN & Russ Mannings' TARZAN!

 (The introductory page of Tintin....the first adventure in the pages of Anandamela was কাকঁড়া রহস্য...)

 For today enjoy a Mannings' beautifully drawn Tarzan adventure in Bengali,originally titled Korak and the Amazons of the Mammoth(S019), published in the Anandamela issues 'Year 1 No. 3(Jun'75) to Year 1 No. 8(Nov'75)'.
[In the first two years of Anandamela,as many as 4 colored pages of Tarzan strips were published in the each issue,which later on reduced to 2 pages/issue and later, 1 page/issue in the pakhik/choto Anandamela!The last Russ Manning's TARZAN appeared in the 28th Jan'81 issue. All later strips were drawn by other artists and quality was much inferior,as you know well!]

• Russ Mannings' SUNDAY : Korak and the Amazons of the Mammoth(S019 ; 1975) :

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