I don’t want to bore you by telling my childhood story. I want to say only about ’’ How I was crazy and what tricks I adopted to read comics’’.
When I was in class 5-6. I started reading comics. Ofcourse subject books became boring. Actually when I saw well coloured comics, cartoons, I became crazy. When I find money from my parents to enjoy, I directly went to Bus Stop (Where comics shop situated) and purchased LotPot and champak. Motu-Patlu story was my favorite one.
One day I saw a shop near my aunt home. I saw lot of comics. That time I was in class 8. Raj comics, Manoj comics, Diamond comics and few others.
Raj comics was my favorite one. Because of Nagraj and Super Commando Dhruv. Raj comics had one speciality. It did experiments. Introducing new Heros, Villains, New series and Digests. Pictures was very appealing.
Digests. When shopkeeper said us (few more crazy like me) that digest will come on next weekend. We became excited. Reason was that the digest contained more pages, long story, many villains, many heros, exiting story and completion in one time. I liked lady heroines(Black cat-Dhruv sister) in comics, because they came came in crisis time and saved heros. Funny Bankelal comics was also my favorite one. ’’Kar Boora, ho bhala’’. Introduction of two new broad size comics, ’’Fighter Tods’’ and ’’Pret Uncle’’ was revolution in comics world.
I missed many classes in my childhood. Shopkeeper loved us and he permitted us to sit inside his room and read when we requested. actually reading outside in the shop was not safe. In home, we couldn’t read and in college, there were terror of teachers. I lost many comics in teacher’s hand. He didn’t returned us. May be given to his sons.
Manoj comics was just ok. Chacha Chaudhary, Saabu and Raka (Diamond comics) these three character saved Diamond comics long time. I didn’t understand Fantom stories. Fantom never wore complete clothes but he had always companionship with girls.
My reading speed increased so much. Even I was unable to find out more comics. Than I started reading novels, magazines. I cant tell you the name of such worst kind of novels. But I read. I can proudly say that I finished a stock of many thousands novels, comics, Lotpot, champak, Suman Saurabh and surabhi. Yeah.............
I invested lot of time. It increased my creativity. I think to solve a problem from different angles. But I am a average person in study.
But life is for fun. Even one day my aunt saw me on shop. She complained, My teachers complained but no one stopped me. In these situations, my love increased for Coloured comics.
Now Today, when I remember, such a childhood days, I only smile. Because people think that reading comics is bad but I dont have any regret. I and one of my friend given some names to our coullegues------ Raka, Chacha chaudhary, Billu, Pinki and Chachi................