Comments on: Phantom of the Comics: Vineeth Abraham

By: Mr walker

Mr walker — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:08:53 +0000

hi..i heard a lot about u & your collection..m also a collector..can u help me with bengali ijcs?i want issues under #300..thanks

By: Indian Comic Book Collector -Vineeth Abraham — ComicBitsOnline.com

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:33:41 +0000

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By: k sivarajan

k sivarajan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:09:49 +0000

hello vineeth
i am a ex-loyolite like you. i can vaguely remember the name but i thought i will email you as an old friend and schoolmate. i was not necessarily a well known person in our class but i finished school in 1976. other classmates used to be sajeev k nair ,santosh sivan etc. am i able to rekindle old memories?
if so let me know
regards
sivarajan

By: Bikash Bhattacharyya

Bikash Bhattacharyya — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:00:03 +0000

Dear Vinith,
I know you have huge collections of Indrajal Comics. I want to get Phantom and Mandrek comics in Bengali. Please, tell me, How can I conduct with you. Please, kindly arrange it for my child.

Bikash Bhattacharyya
18, Babu Para Road,
P.O. – BHATPARA, Dist. : 24 Parganas (North)
West Bengal, PIN – 743123

By: Anand Ramaswamy

Anand Ramaswamy — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:56:26 +0000

Cool blog. Nice to read about guys like Vineeth abraham.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:35:44 +0000

Hi,I’m Steve from Goa.
I got quite a few spare indrajals and about 20 missing from the volumes.I want
help/advice from you guys.
My e-mail-stevepxs@hotmail.com and mobile 9822131399.
Thanks.
Steve.

By: nayeem

nayeem — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:16:53 +0000

HI,

I AM AN AREDENT FAN OF INDRAJAL COMICS MY FAV CHAR IS “DARA” KINDLY LET ME KNOW ERE CAN I GET THE COMICS IN HYD PLS REPLY TO MY EAMIL ID GOODDUDE7@YAHOO.COM IF SOMEBODY OUT OF HYDERABAD IS READY TO MAIL THEM I AM READY TO CARE OF THE CHRGES…..LOOKING FOR A RESPONSE.

By: Vineeth Abraham

Vineeth Abraham — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:28:54 +0000

Govind/ Sreekala

Only place to get secondhand Indrajal comics are at secondhand bokshops/ pavement shops. In Delhi you could try out Daryaganj mar

By: Govind

Govind — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:38:37 +0000

Dear,

I am looking for secondhand phantom/Mandrske comic books. Where can I get it.
Thanks & regards,

Govind

By: Ashok

Ashok — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:51:09 +0000

Rajiv, as I mentioned in the article, it was from you that I heard of Vineeth.

By: rajiv varghese

rajiv varghese — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:59:33 +0000

Vineeth was my class mate and I can remember him telling me about a mate of our’s named Rakesh Hasija who borrowed a comic bound from him and never returned,30 years after we left school,waiting to get even with him some day.

By: Sreekala Warrier

Sreekala Warrier — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:23:09 +0000

Dear Vineeth,
I am glad to have come across an Indian who collects pahntom comics. Can you please suggest ways I can find them in Mumbai.

By: Vineeth Abraham

Vineeth Abraham — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:54:04 +0000

Animesh,

Thank you for the kind words. Of course I recall you. My e-mail is vineeth_436@yahoo.co.uk

Murali,

I need to thank you for too many things to mention here.

By: murali

murali — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:24:32 +0000

Hi Vineeth:

Thanks to the Internet, we got around meeting each other. Thanks a million for introducing me to the Phantom artists and appreciate what other heroes like Batman and Tarzan had to offer too. Take care, buddy!

By: Animesh Kumar Paul

Animesh Kumar Paul — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:20:16 +0000

I worked with Vineeth in Adult Education Department of Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi. At that time I found him as very fond of movies specially hollywood films and also very fond of english literature. He is a very gentleman. I think he can recall me, if he can, please send your e-mail address.

By: Vishnu Menon M

Vishnu Menon M — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:36:50 +0000

Both the persona and the writer impressed me for their respective traits. Chill!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:46:38 +0000

is he also an umberto eco fan – has he already read the his latest book
I am not real – but i liked the bolg – do not want to say who i am – but wanted to comment – so dont believe in the email id

By: sudhanshu ambiye

sudhanshu ambiye — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:36:33 +0000

great article on a great collector, rather a great human being, who is always ready to help others,,,

By: Ashok

Ashok — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:45:53 +0000

Happy to see comics fans dropping by to cheer Vineeth, clarify doubts, etc. Rafiq Raja’s and Comic Guy’s sites on comics are impressive.

Vishnu, before posting this article, I visited your creation (slideshare). Skipped it because the slides did not flow non-stop. Doubtful of pulling off a sync-ed slideshow, I played safe with the traditional written article format.

By: vineeth abraham

vineeth abraham — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:19:24 +0000

Always glad to be in touch with other fans. I can be contacted at vineeth_436@yahoo.co.uk

By: desiguru

desiguru — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:17:45 +0000

Thanks vineeth for all the scans and comics provided to all phantom sites. there r many comics fans, including me, but u really has taken it to a different level. i love to be in touch with and comic fan like u.

By: vineeth abraham

vineeth abraham — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:36:48 +0000

Thanks to everyone for their kind comments. As to the lists of the comics I have, I do have rudimentaryu lists of all the 5000 odd comics I have in my collection.

By: Comic Guy

Comic Guy — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:15:00 +0000

Although i was having a ‘ghost; introduction of vineeth through some common friend like ajay mishra and other phantom based site but it was nice to find more information about him through this article along with photos of him and his collection.
I heartily congrats vineeth for building up such a nice collection..i want to ask him one question..thats it whether he is planning to build up a sequenced/sorted/arranged list of his collection so that one can know easily about the content of his collection.

By: Dr. Rishi Mantri

Dr. Rishi Mantri — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:24:57 +0000

Thanks for the scans buddy

By: erb

erb — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:28:47 +0000

I talked to vineeth when i visited delhi about 2 years back and fixes appt with him. but unfortunately i could not meet him since i was far away from where he stays. And thus i missed seeing the huge collection of vineet. I Myself am a collector of comics , maybe 40% only of vineeth. Keep it up vineeth, as you are a gold mine of comic india

By: Rafiq Raja

Rafiq Raja — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:25:40 +0000

To Vineeth & Vishnu:

No Need to pay a premium for Ramayan storyline of Virgin Comics. Gotham Comics is planning to launch it in India in the coming months, among their current 17 titles. So we could get hold of it for 25 to 30 rs…..

By: Rafiq Raja

Rafiq Raja — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:22:54 +0000

Good to have a glimpse of Vineeth Abraham. I have been reading his message posts on Phantom Phorums and Indo-Pak-Bang Yahoo group, and was thinking him of a late 20’s chap… but continuing a passion throughout life is a miracle… something which I am hoping to do in my life.

Nice to be in touch with you Vineeth. thanks for Ashok for the blog…. you writing is of top class.

By: Vineeth Abraham

Vineeth Abraham — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:14:27 +0000

Vishnu

Thanks for the link to the virgin site. Yet to get my hands on a copy but it looks good. BTW copyrights on these comics are still active though there are some sites on the Net where scans are available . These sites are not legal though.

By: Vishnu Gopal

Vishnu Gopal — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:10:10 +0000

Ashok: Great article. An easy way to use flash would be to slidecast (www.slideshare.net). Create a powerpoint file, a matching audio file, and upload both. Sync it on the web.

Vineethcheta, amazing hobby. Are copyrights on all these comics still active? Scanning all of them and putting it on the net would be really nice.

Btw I saw one of these: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37367/Virgin-Comics-Ramayan-Issue-5 in hardcopy recently. Pretty amazing stuff. Ramayan reimagined as scifi/fantasy.

By: Vineeth Abraham

Vineeth Abraham — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:08:58 +0000

Srini,

Am always glad to meet comic fans. Do get in touch.

By: Srini

Srini — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:14:26 +0000

Great article and Vineeth, I hope to see you one day. I first saw your mention at Bryan Sheddon’s premier Phantom site about 7 years ago. When I met Misraji in Hyderabad earlier this year, your name came up again. Now thanks to various blogsites on Indrajal the minor and the major treasures are once again accessible for ‘Phans’. Thanks to my father and Misraji, I have a small collection of Indrajal Phantoms myself which survived many years of my neglect and most recently Hurricane Katrina.

By: Vineeth Abraham

Vineeth Abraham — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:25:40 +0000

Ashok- Don’t know about Trivandrum- could maybe think of a museum in Irinjalakuda.

By: Ashok

Ashok — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:21:16 +0000

Sarkar – Vineeth told me about you and another friend, all three from 1977 ICSE, but from different places in India.

Mathan – As Sarkar noted in his comment above, Vineeth frequently talks of going back to Kerala. I suggested to Vineeth that he set up a comics museum in Trivandrum, where comics can be referred in-house — a first step to develop comics culture in India, and also a tourism centre.

By: Jacob Mathan

Jacob Mathan — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:22:06 +0000

Hi everybody, Thanks to Ashok we get to meet Vineeth, and to learn of his single minded passion and effort at collecting comics. I can recall the old days when getting to borrow a comic bound was like (I really cant express in in words now). One never knew where to start on the bound, and used to lovingly gaze at random before getting down to specifics. Im sure that Vineeth’s collection is heading for the status of a museum before long. Continue the good work of the bard dear Ashok, Love and regards to all.

By: Vineeth Abraham

Vineeth Abraham — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:47:49 +0000

Thanks to everyone for the kind words. Like I mentioned to Ashok , if the post rekindles an interest in others to go back to their childhood days and revisit the books they loved, its purpose would have been served.

By: Sandeep Kurur

Sandeep Kurur — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:31:58 +0000

Good one!

By: Issac

Issac — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:45:00 +0000

awesome. i r’ber we used comics and books as currency back in school. not sure if the school lib had them. the exchange or barter system we developed in books, esp the rare ones taught us quite a lot:
1) economics – the rare ones were worth 2-3 other ones – demand and supply determining the price
2) cartels and monopolies – the guys who were in the “in” crowd controlled the rare ones
3) reading comprehension prep for CAT – a book a day in the bus journey to school was standard because the exchange was only for a day
4) negotiation – sometimes u could get a rare one in exchange for 2 instead of 3 if u haggled well
…and we learned some english too

if this were a micro economy, and vineeth had been in that barter system, i guess he would have been rough on roughnecks, as the old jungle saying goes…

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:18:08 +0000

I knew you were a bookworm then. It is amazing how you have continued and become a conosieur of books and magazines. Your analogy of a loyolite as Phantom is very appropriate as most loyolites has done that in the numerous fields of work and socially.
Good luck to you.

Anthony
ABL

By: Syam Nath S

Syam Nath S — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:26:10 +0000

nice post

By: P.C. SARKAR

P.C. SARKAR — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:31:22 +0000

I met Vineeth through the net, as he contacted me on seeing my posts on the Phantom, in a popular Australian Discussion Board called the PHANTOM PHORUM. I visited his Delhi residence and was highly impressed by his single minded dedication for novels, short stories and comics, as well as movies, which you did not mention in this blog. Over the years, especially after I was posted at Delhi, we have been in touch and have exchanged / gifted each other books / comics / film cds. Vineeth is not only a fanatical collector, he is also a thorough gentleman and a very sincere, humble human being. Wherever, our reading tastes match, we have lively discussions and pleasantries. Our wives look on and search for topics to chat on, while we talk of Phantoms and horror anthologies and classic Hollywood films. Vineeth’s single minded desire is to go back to his home state, Kerala, which puts me off thoroughly. Anyway, its his life and his choice.

By: Ashok

Ashok — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:08:33 +0000

Happy to see Karthik and Vineeth exchanging notes on comics here.

Chandru, Vineeth had told me about your new venture in Hyderabad–the comics shop/website.

I am not a fan of long blogposts. Guess one can get away with it if the topic is interesting and the story is new. There was a lot of potential to do this story in Flash (rather than just text and pics), but am technologically challenged. Anybody out there skilled in Flash?

Deepak, Sreejesh, Senthil – glad to see that you liked the post.

Jiby – I rely on volunteer scouts like you to find the next inspiring Loyolite.

By: Senthil

Senthil — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:58:40 +0000

“With a hobby from his school days, Vineeth Abraham has created a world of joy outside the workplace” – what a refreshing way to live life! Hats off to you, Vineeth, for following your passion and sticking to it even after all these years. And again, nice writing, nice topic, Ashok…

By: Jiby

Jiby — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:35:01 +0000

Ashok, Thank You very much for bringing us this wonderful story. Please have a feature like this once in a while about senior loyolites…it is really inspiring to read about old boys like Vineeth who carry on with their hobbies and passions despite the grind of daily life.

By: Sreejesh

Sreejesh — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:17:41 +0000

great post. good to know about people like vineeth abraham….

By: Chandru

Chandru — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:29:49 +0000

Oh, at last i see Vineeth. We have been on the phone about comics and graphic novels for long hours from my place in Hyderabad. What an enthusiast, and a long-lived one at that.

By: Vineeth Abraham

Vineeth Abraham — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:27:04 +0000

Just to answer Karthik’s query, I have copies of issues from all the series you mention. Getting more and more difficult to find as time goes by, but persevere long enough and everything turns up at Daryaganj.

By: Karthik.C

Karthik.C — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:20:50 +0000

Hi Ashok,
Great to read this article on Vineeth. I myself was a very great fan of the Phantom and Mandrake series but it looks like Vineeth has taken this passion to a totally different level..I wonder whether he has collections of the Bahadur, Dick Tracy, Blondie and other series

By: Deepak Madhusoodanan

Deepak Madhusoodanan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:05:43 +0000

Wonderful way, not just to introduce an old boy to us, but also a new world – that of comic book connoisseurs. Very well-written post.