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16 During this period they also published a number of special issues, all but one a combination of earlier single issues.

Although these 244 issues were mostly republications of issues from the original series, they also included five new titles. By 2008 this new series consisted of 244 issues numbering from 501 (Krishna) toħ44 (Chokha Mela).

15)įrom 1991 to 2008 ACK mostly reprinted earlier issues, but these were on better paper and with new numbers. (Other labels with similar content, such as Adarsh Chitra Katha, seem to have been unrelated to IBH. 13 They also published some specialty titles under other labels, such as Amar Charitra Katha. For some reason IBH also printed some of the original issues under a different label, Chaturang Katha. 9 In addition, between 1969 to 1991 IBH reprinted many of the early titles individually, 10 published at least 35 "Bumper Issues" (each re-printing three of these titles as one volume 11), and at one time re-printed the earliest issues in "21 deluxe bound volumes, each containing 10 Amar Chitra Katha titles serially from No. 8 This original series also included three larger special issues. 6Īmar Chitra Katha's original numbered series of 426 Indian classical comics began in 1969 with #11, Krishna 7 it ended in 1991 with 4 Although ACK had begun in 1967 with an unnumbered set of 10 Western fairy tales retold in Hindi, 5 from 1969 they almost exclusively told Indian stories and all were initially published in English. These books were mostly written by Indians and assumed a body of knowledge I did not have so in order not to be totally lost when reading them, I found it useful as well as fun to collect and read illustrated versions of the stories as told in Amar Chitra Katha comics. 3 As traditional Indian performances are almost always connected to Indian religion, folklore, history, and so forth, while there I bought a number of academic books in order better to understand these topics. Indian classic comics, from India Book House (IBH)ĭuring the 1980s and 1990s, while working with the Festival of Asian Arts in Hong Kong, I went to India a number of times, mainly to see performances.