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When we think of Uncle Pai aka Anant Pai, we think of Amar Chitra Katha & Tinkle. But his journey in India comics began actually with Indrajal Comics (which came about for an interesting reason). & if it wasn't for Anant Pai, Phantom wouldn't be so big in India.
A short thread...
A short thread...
Early 1960s Anant Pai was working at Times of India, whose publisher, Bennet Coleman & Co. owned rotary-presses which they used to print calendars. But after Deepavali/holiday season these presses would lie idle. So Pai's boss, P.K.Roy got him some imported Superman comics and...
...asked him to explore the possibility of printing Superman comics to keep the presses busy. Superman rights were easily available. Pai had other ideas & suggested Phantom instead whose faux-Indian trappings were already familiar to many. After all...
Contrary to popular perception, Amar Chitra Katha was not created by Anant Pai aka Uncle Pai & neither was it in English to begin with! The story of Amar Chitra Katha begins in Bangalore & with ಕನ್ನಡ….
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…The story of Amar Chitra Katha begins in namma Bengaluru as the brainchild of an India Book House (IBH) salesman, G.K. Ananthram who convinced his boss, IBH owner G.L. Mirchandani to let him publish books in Kannada as he felt there was lack of Indian stories at the time...
…The books ultimately became comics, & in the interestsof a quick start, Ananthram began the series – which he named Amar Chitra Katha – with translations of Disney Classics comics of fairy tales. Anant Pai at this time was with The Times of India handling Indrajal Comics…
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