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March 03, 2021 11:21 IST
Arun Prasad, one of India’s largest comic book collectors, is working on a project that traces the history of comics in India
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Arun Prasad, one of India’s largest comic book collectors, is working on a project that traces the history of comics in India
Collector of comic books Arun Prasad was referred to as an ‘extreme collector’, on a History Channel show, for his collection of 18,000-odd comic books — the result of more than 20 years of travelling, collecting and, most importantly, preserving.
Collecting these India-published comic books — like
Phantom,
Bahadur, and
Mandrake — was initially a way of going back in time, through the pages of his favourite Indrajal comics. “These connect me to my past, I get a bit of my childhood back, through this,” says the Bengaluru-based pannapictagraphist, who is one of the largest collectors of Indian comics in the country. Arun’s search for vintage comics, which started in 1998, today comprises a network that spans across the country — Lucknow, Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.