17 March 2015: Lion & Muthu Comics

Dear ComiRades,

Welcome Back to TCU. The previous post was actually a success as, the intended reason behind the posting of the same was met with. Now, Let us move on to this month’s Tamil Comics books. As per the custom in these times, we have a bunch of 3 books and here are they:

Initially we had planned to have a series of Introductory posts individually on all three of them. However, considering the time and effort, it was now merged into a single post. In this post, not much is there to explain. Hence, here starts the pictorial tour of this month’s Tamil comics books:

Lion Comics 248: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Bouncer – Volume 3, 4 & 5: Sarppangalin Saabam

Here are the Sample Pages and the Credit Pages from this wonderful Issue: For bigger and better images, Kindly click on each image.

Lion Comics Issue No 248 Dated March 2015 Inner wrapper	Lion Comics Issue No 248 March 2015 Bouncer Page 003
Lion Comics Issue No 248 March 2015 Bouncer Page 004	Lion Comics Issue No 248 March 2015 Bouncer Page 008
Lion Comics Issue No 248 March 2015 Bouncer Page 044	Lion Comics Issue No 248 March 2015 Bouncer Page 177
Lion Comics Issue No 248 March 2015 Bouncer Page 178	Lion Comics Issue 248 March 2015 Bouncer Back Inner Wrapper

Muthu Comics Issue No 338: Jean Giraud & William Vance/Michel Rouge’s Marshal Blueberry (2 & 3)

Amongst all three issues of this month, this was the most expected & the only one which had the editorial and other regular contents that go along with the normal issues. Here are the Sample Pages and the Credit Pages from this wonderful Issue: For bigger and better images, Kindly click on each image.

Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 003 Comics Time	Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 004 Comics Time
Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 005 Title Page	Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page 059 Story Sample Page
Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 096 Largo Winch Ad	Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 097 SSV 45 A
Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 098 SSV 45 8	Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 099 Next Issues
Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 102 2014 Review	Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 103 2014 Review
Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 104 Next Reprints	Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 105 Readers PoV
Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Page No 106 Minnum Maranam	Muthu Comics No 338 March 2015 Inner Wrapper

Muthu Comics Issue No 339: CID Robin (Nick Raider) Ethargalin Ellai

Though this is officially issue no 339, a faux pas on the numbering of the issues resulted in both the March 2015 issues of Muthu comics being numbered as 338. Hopefully this will be rectified in the next issue itself. For bigger and better images, Kindly click on each image.

Muthu Comics # 339 March 2015 Ethargalin Ellaiyil Page No 02	Muthu Comics # 339 March 2015 Ethargalin Ellaiyil Page No 03
Muthu Comics # 339 March 2015 Ethargalin Ellaiyil Page No 04	Muthu Comics # 339 March 2015 Ethargalin Ellaiyil Page No 05
Muthu Comics # 339 March 2015 Ethargalin Ellaiyil Page No 42	Muthu Comics # 339 March 2015 Ethargalin Ellaiyil Page No 83
Muthu Comics # 339 March 2015 Ethargalin Ellaiyil Page No 96	Muthu Comics # 339 March 2015 Ethargalin Ellaiyil Page No 97
Muthu Comics # 339 March 2015 Ethargalin Ellaiyil Page No 98	Muthu Comics # 339 March 2015 Ethargalin Ellaiyil inner Wrapper

Well, that’s all for this post and  As usual, post your comments in the comments section. For those who want to Pen their thoughts in Tamil, Kindly Use the Option Provided in the Widget section or Click Here.

Thanks & Regards, 
King Viswa.

6 Muthu Comics No 325 – Bruno Brazil – Saaga Marantha Suraa – The Shark Which Died Twice

Dear ComiRades,

Welcome back to TCU. This must be the first time ever that yours truly has posted a new post within say, 10 hours, of the previous post. As they say, there is a first time for everything, Right?

Apart from the regular CBF 2014 posts, we are going to see some introduction posts in this month. Amongst them is the one which i have been waiting for many, many years and NO, it is not Thorgal. Enter Bruno Brazil in Multi colour in Tamil language for the 1st time. Of course, Unlike Captain Bernard Prince stories which were created just couple of years back on popular demand, Bruno Brazil stories are not new stories per se. They are the coloured versions of the stories which were published earlier.

When yours truly opened the book, there was a nice surprise. To make this book truly of old times (Remember that this book was first released in May, 1967), there was a filler page from the Fleetway classic Sporty & Sydney by Reg Wootton. To know more about the history of Sporty, kindly Click here.

 As usual, the first page of the book was that of the Editorial from Group editor S.Vijayan. One wonderful change in the credits box was very much visible and TCU officially thanks fellow ComiRade Ayyampalayam Venkateswaran for that. Could you Spot the visible difference? Try and comment the answer in the comment box below the post.

 Here is the advertisement for the books which are currently on sale. The most eagerly awaited amongst is that of the one featuring Thorgal, which is 3rd from left to right. In the golden periods of the 80’s, we used to have many advertisements / promos of forthcoming issues and also current issues on stand. The reason was, we used to have 4 / 5 different comics brands from our own publication. The same is also happening now. Feels great.

This story was first published in May 1967 under French title, which could be translated as “The Shark which died twice” and the rough translation for our version is “ The Shark which forgot to Die” and after reading the story, one feels that our title is lot more closer to the story arc. Just read the story and do comment on this.

As mentioned above, the story was first published in the 60’s and at that point of time, William Vance drew the entire album in Black & White and here is a sample image for those who want to check the visible improvement in the art with the addition of colours:

 Of late, some of the notable blog posts are getting printed in the books in order to cater to those who are not that much accessible to the social media community. Here is a printed version of the post which was done on Christmas eve, about forming a grand library in the Comics HQ.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are sme of the letters to the editor and do read the letter from avid reader and comics historian Mayiladuthurai Gopu Sir (Anyone remember his wonderful letter about Lion diwali special 1987?).

 Unlike Last year, we are going to have at least 2 issues in the month of February. One is from Jill Jordon and the other is the long awaited come back of Bob Morane who was re christened as Roger in Tamil. Old timers may recall the post in TCU about the publication history of Roger in Tamil. For those who came in late, Click Here

Well, that’s all for this post and  as we are going to launch 4 new titles in this CBF 2014 & We shall see another quick introduction post tonight & Our coverage will also continue for tomorrow as well. Remember that the Editor will be on stall from evening onwards.

As usual, post your comments in the comments section. For those who want to Pen their thoughts in Tamil, Kindly Use the Option Provided in the Widget section or Click Here.

Thanks & Regards, 
King Viswa