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Amar Chitra Katha Amar Chitra Katha (ACK Comics) is an Indian publisher of Indian comics and graphic novels. Most of its comics are based on religious legends and epics, historical figures and biographies, folktales and cultural stories. The company was fo ...
comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. ...
series. The table below shows the numbering as part of the old series as well as that of the new series. Titles which were published in only one of the series have been indicated with a "NA" against the series in which they did not appear. The old series runs from #11 to #436 and the new series starts from #501. New series issues typically appear in a deluxe format and are usually reprints of titles in old series. However some issues such as
Kalpana Chawla Kalpana Chawla (17 March 1962 – 1 February 2003) was an Indian-born American astronaut and mechanical engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space. She first flew on Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' in 1997 as a mission speciali ...
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JRD Tata Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was a French- Indian aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur and chairman of Tata Group. Born into the Tata family of India, he was the son of noted businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy ...
etc. have appeared in the new series alone. Similarly, although most of the old series have reappeared in the new series, certain issues such as
Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader wh ...
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Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named after ...
etc. are present in old series alone. Three extra-long special issues were also published and numbered from 10001 onwards –
Valmiki's Ramayana The ''Rāmāyana'' (; sa, रामायणम्, ) is a Sanskrit epic composed over a period of nearly a millennium, with scholars' estimates for the earliest stage of the text ranging from the 8th to 4th centuries BCE, and later stages ...
, Dasha Avatar and
Jesus Christ Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...
. Few other special issues issued as part of the new series such as Tulsidas Ramayana,
Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the '' Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the K ...
, Bhagawat Purana and
Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, Anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure ...
are not numbered but are considered as part of the official title list of
Amar Chitra Katha Amar Chitra Katha (ACK Comics) is an Indian publisher of Indian comics and graphic novels. Most of its comics are based on religious legends and epics, historical figures and biographies, folktales and cultural stories. The company was fo ...
. As of May 2014 Amar Chitra Katha have released 465 titles (454 individual issues and 11 special issues). Amar Chitra Katha also issues a collection of individual comics as a set of "3 in one" or "5 in one".


List of Amar Chitra Katha individual issues

Key * NA denotes that the comic is Not Available in that series. * BS denotes that the comic has been published as part of a Bounded Set ( 3 in 1 (or) 5 in 1) * BS' denotes that the comic has been published as part of a Bounded Set ( Coffee Table Books ) * SI denotes that the comic has appeared as part of a Special Issue/Bumper Issue which was a compilation of multiple issues together * Issue 801 was originally Tales Of Ganesha and was later released as 830 Ganesha and the Moon. * Issue 418 wasn't reprinted but released online as issue 476. https://books.google.com/books?id=Wf_cDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0 * Issue 276 released in 1986 has original name as Animal Tales from Arunachal Pradesh but reprinted in 2014, given a new serial number 772 and a new title - The Pig and the Dog. * Issue 679 (Swami Pranavandana) and 847 (Jagjivan Ram) were never published and distributed for general public. Only available in their aashrams. Recently (September 2020), Swami Pranavanadana is digitalised and made available on ACK's official platform. https://digital.amarchitrakatha.com/id006959024/Swami-Pranavananda


List of Amar Chitra Katha special issues


List of Amar Chitra Katha issues #1 to #10

Amar Chitra Katha issues ranging from #1 to #10 were reproductions of western fairy tales. They were never published in English but were published in Kannada first and then the following Indian languages-Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam


References

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