The Ghost Still Walks

R Sridhar meets a group of comic-book collectors whose passion for The Phantom, Mandrake and Bahadur continues into middle age Recommended tags : The Ghost Still Walks, R Sridhar, group of comic-book collectors, Phantom, Mandrake and Bahadur, Indrajal THE HISTORY Indrajal Comics, a division of Bennett, Coleman & Company—publishers of The Times of India—printed the comics from 1964 to 1990. After they stopped in 1990, Diamond Comics picked up the rights for The Phantom and Mandrake in India but discontinued publication nine years later The bookseller, located on a Matunga sidewalk, grins knowingly when I approach him. “Aap queue mein hain Sir,’’ he says, flipping out three visiting cards, two of them of senior newspaper editors. Then relenting, he fishes out a bundle which he hands me. “Aap woh ped ke peechhe jaa ke dekh... [read full story]