Indrajal Comics #13

(March 1965)

Henry (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

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humour

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Henry; Mother

Synopsis

Not being tall enough to eat his soup at the table, Henry tries a variety of books to sit and eat his soup. Finally he settles on one stack upon which to sit and another stack as a makeshift table. In walks Mom.

Indexer Notes

Panel 9 Identifies "(c) King Features Syndicate, Inc. 1964. World rights reserved.
Panel 11 has the date at 3-29.

Our New Age (Table of Contents: 2)

Science / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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Athelstan Spilhaus (dean, University of Minnesota Institute of Technology)

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The oldest living organisms on Earth are trees!

Genre

non-fiction; maths & science

Synopsis

Page one tells how tree rings can tell the age of a tree, just like bands on scallop shells, fish scales, whale earplugs, and horns of rams tell their age. But people after the baby years need birth certificates.
Page two is devoted to the speed of light and its actual determination.

Indexer Notes

Galileo, Roemer, and Fizeau are mentioned in the search for the speed of light.

Around the World With Kunju Pillay (Table of Contents: 3)

Kunju Pillay / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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Kavadi

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From Split, Kunju pedals his way to the Austrian border via Zagreb.

Genre

adventure; non-fiction; biography; history

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Kunju

Synopsis

Leaving Split Kunju heads to the Austrian border via Zagreb on his way to Graz where he meets the mayor while touring the Renaissance Palace of Eggenber (now a museum). The mayor escorts him to the "Joanneum" where local art and handicrafts are displayed. From Graz Kunju pedals to Vienna where he makes a few friends who take him to the Klosterneuberg Monestary and Greifenstein Castle.

Keywords

Graz; Greifenstein Castle; Joanneum; Klosterneuberg Monestary; Renaissance Palace of Eggenberg; River Danube; Split; Vienna; Zagreb

The Phantom and Samaris (Table of Contents: 4)

Phantom / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

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At deep-jungle campfires, the folk love to hear tales of gods and heroes~~

Genre

adventure; drama; romance; superhero

Characters

The Phantom (#20); Queen Samaris; Devil

Synopsis

Queen Samaris ages, having all the witches rounded up she demands they return her youth or die. The last witch, promised half the kingdom succeeds in making her young forever on the condition that she can never fall in love. This witch is killed too. With the court aging and her not, she schemes to "become her own daughter" eleven times to hide her immortality. On an excursion she runs across Eden and decides to hunt the Phantom's preserve. He prevents her, the first man to tell her 'No.' This proves her undoing his willingness to refuse her causes her to come to love him, breaking the spell.

The Little King (Table of Contents: 5)

The Little King / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

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Royal Art Exhibit

Genre

humour

Synopsis

The little king summons his guards, and has them each grab a brush and slap paint to a huge canvas, which is then taken to the Royal Art Exhibit.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

statement of ownership / 0.5 page (report information)

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Statement about ownership and other particulars about newspaper entitled "INDRAJAL COMICS," Bombay.

Indexer Notes

Dated 1st March 1965. (P. L. Sah) signed as publisher.

The Age of Man (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Sanzgiri

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Ancient Egypt - I

Genre

non-fiction; history

Keywords

The Sphinx; The Step Pyramid of Sakkarah

Indexer Notes

Tells about the birth of Egypt, and three rulers Pharaoh Chepheran with his Sphinx, King Khaf-Re, and King Zoser and his Step Pyramid of Sakkarah.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Phantom / illustration / 1 page (report information)

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superhero

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Copy of the front cover with no lettering or logos.