Comic #122: Phantom - Diana's Deadly Tour

TCP First Anniversary Celebrations

Day 2 - 13th April 2006

The emails continued and I wrote to AK

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 02:58 AM (1 year 5 months ago)
Sub: Re: Finding Indian Phantom Comics

Thanks for the info on Delhi. I dont live there, but can try to tap some contacts. I am planning to digitize whatever is available on phantom and mandrake, and I dont have the resources to spend a bomb on buying the comics. So the second-hand shop is a fantastic tip you have given me. Am in the US now, but will be back in India in a couple of weeks and that's when I plan on visiting libraries (whatever little is left of them) and book stores and pick them up cheap. I am seeing this as a 1 year project, to try to digitize as much as is available. Is going to be quite a task, and I am wondering, why the hell did I talk myself into doing something like this. But will do it anyway.

Thanks a Lot

TCP

He wrote back:

Wed, 3 Nov 2004 11:30 AM (1 year 5 months ago)
Sub: Re: Finding Indian Phantom Comics

Hi TCP (nice initials!),

Cool! Yours is quite an ambitious project but that's what dreams are made of (at least, dreams of Phans like us)!

Are you open to all (Indian) languages of the Phantom comics or just English? Also, do you plan to include Diamond Comics in your project?

I'm asking 'cos I know of a bookstore that had a considerable number of Hindi Phantom (and Mandrake) Diamond Comics (the last time I checked some months back). Anyway, the address of the store: Famous Book Store, 25, Janpath Market, New Janpath Bhawan, New Delhi 110001, India.

Well, all the best for your venture! I wish you can complete your goal in the specified time. Also, please do think about putting up the digitized images on the Web (although I'm not sure how legal that will be... *lol*); it'd be a great service to all the Phans around the world (with Internet access).

You may want to visit http://www.ipcomics.net/
The webmaster of the site (Ivan) has done something similar to what you want to do. He has scanned images of comics on his site.

See ya!

Fellow-Phan,
AK

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There were two things I didn't do
1. Visit the website AK asked me to check out - because I did not pay attention to that part of the email and thought it was just some website (sorry AK)
2. Visit the Delhi shop mentioned for comics - Since I had a initial supply and I had not taken this seriously yet

#1 had a positive fallout. If I had gone there and saw what those guys are doing, I would have lost some of the drive - purely because what I was doing would not be "original" - you getting the drift? A few months later, I got another suggestion to visit this site, but strangely I didn't go and check it out as much as I should have. Don't know why.

One fun thing I started doing after the blog started was looking at the number of hits but I had no clue that I could do this until VB suggested sitemeter. Thanks for that VB and for the initial encouragement. 1 year down the line, it feels great to be alive and kicking ass.

Although we don't see VB around much, you should know that VB was the 3rd person to comment on TCP. During those days, we didn't really count the position or announce it :-) Incidentally, Joe was the 5th person to post a comment here, and offered me a beer - which I still haven't taken because I never got to Bangalore. Joe - if you get to Amsterdam - the beer's on me!

Ok comic time. A fast-paced Diana story, not on Indrajal, but interesting.

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