History and profile
''Madhu Muskan'' was started by the publisher Gowarsons in 1972. The magazine was headquartered inCharacters and themes
The characters of ''Madhu Muskan'' were mainly humorous. Though one detective story feat. Babloo was also there, rest of the characters were designed to make people laugh. The comic also used to carry stories in the magazine format on various themes. The 1970s and 1980s saw the blossoming of several such characters. Following short comics series were published under each ''Madhu Muskan'' issues: *Daddy Ji - Daddyji appeared in ''Madhu Muskan'' for almost 25 years. Daddy ji was the most popular and prime character in ''Madhu Muskan''. He used to be featured on the cover of each and every issue of ''Madhu Muskan''. "Everybody could relate to the bumbling full-of-himself Daddyji as a character like that exists in every family, " says Daddyji's creator Harish M Sudan who modelled the character on his brother-in-law. "As for the plots, I didn't have to look far, since every day, there was a situation in our family that provided a spark for ideas," he says. Taking the family connection further, Sudan named his daughter Yoyo and dog Bhobho to rhyme with Daddyji's son, Jojo — an important character in the comic and often the source of Dadyji's predicaments. He was a humorous character later appeared in Manoj Comics as a famous comic writer with the name of 'Uncle Charlie'. Also, there was his boss Malik Saheb. *Babloo - Babloo was a teen detective (sometimes a child detective). Often as common with this kind of stories, he has an uncle in the police as Superintendent of Police. Who always seek his help in solving the mysteries and arresting the criminals. He was a popular character and he too appeared in every issue of ''Madhu Muskan''. *Popat-Chaupat - Popat-Chaupat were the ill-fated (Kismat ke Maare) comic duo, who are always surrounded by the money problems or the others. There pathetic situation arises the element of fun and humour in the comics. *Sustram-Chustram - As the name implies, yet another comic duo surrounded with problems all the time. Whereas Chustram is always over energetic i.e. ''Chust'', 'Sustram' was the laziest person i.e. ''Sust''. Because of his behavior he was always beaten by Chustram. * Bhootnath Aur Jaadui Tulika - Bhootnath was a ''Bhoot'' i.e. a ghost who had a magical paint brush called 'Tulika'. 'Tulika' always wanted to make his master happy and tried to fulfill his wish but in every episode, in spite of Tulika's genuine efforts to please Bhootnath, he always ended in trouble in a humorous way. They were one of the popular characters of ''Madhu Muskan''. * Minni was a small girl character you can recognize with Pran's Pinki. A very clever, mischievous and helpful little girl. * Manglu Madari Aur Bandar Bihari * Dakoo Paan Singh - A fun loving, danger loving, pan-chewing Dakoo Pan Singh used to get super-human strength when he ate a paan. Paan's which his trusty side-kick Supari Lal could whip up in a matter of seconds. Dakoo Pan Singh had a multitude of enemies that he battled, some of the more memorable ones being, Madam Motallo (a fat lady who could turn herself into aComics publication
After seeing the popularity of their comic characters in ''Madhu Muskan'', their publishers started publication of full-fledged comics. They started with the name 'Mudhu Muskan Comics' under which they released several issues of characters 'Babloo', 'Daku Paan Singh','Chandru', 'Popat-Chaupat' and other ''Madhu Muskan'' characters. They came out with one more publication called 'Trishul Comics' which consisted of characters like 'Bharat Kumar','Inspector Azaad', etc. They started yet another publication with the name 'Gowarsons Comics' under which they published the famous foreign titles in Hindi. 'Gowarsons Comics' has titles of 'References
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