![]() ![]() Television, online platforms, smartphones and social media, the challenges came singly and collectively, pulling readers away from comic books. The visual is a sight to behold and needs to be seen to be believed.From being aces of the comic trade, Indian superheroes such as Nagraj, Super Commander Dhruv and Chacha Chaudhary were pushed to the back of the bookshelf as other kinds of entertainment invaded the mindspace but are now on their way back on mobile apps, animated TV shows and even 3D films. Now the superheroes go after the Haru creature and in what I consider as one of the best full page panels ever created in Indian comics history, all heroes attack the villain with their respective powers, at once. They are defeated after Super Commando Dhruva suggests that they should not fight their alter egos, and instead should focus on defeating their fellow superheroes’ evil twins. This leads to an awesome fight sequence where the superheroes are forced to fight their evil alter egos. The protagonists featured in Kohraam were Nagraj, Super Commando Dhruva, Shakti, Kobi, Tiranga, Doga, Anthony, Inspector Steel and Parmanu.Įventually, it dawns upon the superheroes that this entity can’t be stopped unless all of them combine their superpowers and unite to face him in combat. ![]() He manages to convert Doga into a live human bomb, and even the mighty Goddess Shakti fails to best him in combat. He lets his intentions known without much delay, and starts attacking Superheroes one after the other. The story begins when a professional photographer gets struck by a comet in a desert, engulfing him completely and turning him into an alien being called ‘Haru’. The page count was a whopping 128, a first for an Indian comic book. We returned home and I began reading Kohraam, and to no one’s surprise, it took me no less than three sittings to read the comic. ALL the superheroes of Raj Comics at once! I had to buy this gem, no matter what. It featured the villain taking on all, I repeat. 40, and you can buy 4 different comic books for that amount. ![]() I still remember the reluctance of my parents while buying Kohraam comic for me. I still consider as the best comic I have ever read- Kohraam The company kept churning out 2 in 1 comics like Nagraj aur Bugaku and used to publish a comic featuring several characters on rare occasions. All of this changed in the year 2000, when Raj Comics came up with a comic. By the year 2000, Raj Comics had published tons of multistarrer comics, the trend starting years ago with the legendary comic “Nagraj aur Super Commando Dhruva”. ![]()
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