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DinaThanthi (translating to Daily Mail) was established by Si. Balasubramania Athithan in Madurai, India in 1942 as a daily newspaper. The newspaper is published in Tamil language and is distributed in 16 cities in India and prints an international edition for Dubai.

We find Phantom comics randomly placed within the series from comic book number 141 in 1990 thru to comic book number 500 in 2005. Internal pages were published in black and white up until 2003, then published in color through to 2005. 68 pages were found in the majority of Phantom comic books, increasing to 84 pages in 2003.

Phantom comic books were published in a mix of landscape and portrait formats, measuring approximately 13.5cm x 19cm regardless of the format. The majority of content found within the comic books are Daily and Sunday comic strips by Lee Falk and Sy Barry, which were sourced directly from King Features Syndicate before translated to Tamil language.

I keep an eye on the Google search queries that lead people here to Boosterrific.com. Most of them are usually what you might expect: "best Booster Gold comics," "Booster Gold powers," "why do people like Booster gold?" But last month I spotted something odd: searches looking for information on "Rani."

Instead, in order to help out whoever out there might be curious about Booster Gold's "daughter," let me re-run a post that I originally presented in 2019 as part of my "People in His Neighborhood" series on supporting characters in Booster Gold comics.

The life of any comic book hero would be a lonely one if not for the many characters who have made up their supporting cast. Just as Superman has Lois Lane and Batman has Alfred, Booster Gold has also shared his adventures with quite a few people over the years. Today we look at one of those, Rani.

In the 30th century, when the evil god Darkseid will take over the planet Daxam in what will become known as "The Great Darkness Saga," time-traveler Booster Gold will do what he can to save innocent lives (as seen in Booster Gold Volume 2, #32). Unfortunately for everyone, Booster is no match for an army of billions of super-powered Daxamites, and he manages to save only one child, little orphan Rani.

With Rani's foster parents having fallen victim to Darkseid's invasion, Booster has little choice but to take the poor girl home with him to 21st-century Arizona where she could be cared for by Time Master Rip Hunter, who unbeknownst to Booster is his real son. Rani nicknamed Rip "Boppy" after her own grandfather (Booster Gold #33). Hunter is concerned that Booster had damaged the space-time continuum by bringing Rani back into her past, but Booster's twin sister, Michelle, refuses to allow them to send the little girl back to a death sentence in the future (Booster Gold #34). Just like that, Rani became part of Booster's family, having free rein of Hunter's Arizona Time Lab compound.

Rani was mature for her age, but she would understandably continue to be traumatized by her experiences on Daxam. For example, when Doctor Nishtikeit and his time-traveling Nazis attacked Hunter's Time Lab (in Booster Gold #41), Rani suffered a prolonged PTSD episode that only resolved when Booster returned to "rescue" her. As seen in Booster Gold #42, Rani cried for the entire duration of Booster's 25th-century prison sentence (though Booster was away for only 10 minutes of her relative time in the 21st century). So far as she is concerned, Booster is her new daddy, and he treats her like the daughter he never had.

In the last days before Flashpoint changed history and destroyed everyone's memories of the history of the world that was, Rani was fittingly last seen in Booster Gold #43 on 30th-century missing child poster.

Other People in Booster Gold's Neighborhood:

Booster Gold's sidekick, Skeets

Booster Gold's twin sister, Michelle Carter

Booster Gold's mother, Ma Carter

Booster Gold's 20th-century ancestor, Daniel Carter

Booster Gold's "daughter," Rani

Booster Gold's boss (and son), Rip Hunter

Booster Gold's secretary, Trixie Collins

Booster Gold's business manager, Dirk Davis

Vice President of Booster Gold International, Mackenzie Garrison

Booster Gold's first love, Monica Lake

Booster Gold's first foe, Blackguard

creators of the Booster Gold comic book, Benny and Marty

the voice of Booster Gold's conscience, Nurse Devlin

the brilliant scientist who created Goldstar, Jack Soo

the mad scientist who hacked Skeets, Doctor Shocker

the bomber who almost killed Booster Gold, Mister Twister

Eskana posted on Oct. 6, 2023 at 1:45 PM

I know a lot of people weren't a fan, but I actually liked the presence of Rani in the books. I felt like it worked with Booster's story and growth, and I realized I really liked to picture him as a dad to his adopted daughter. Maybe Rani could be the Carter legacy character we actually get to see, since we already know what happens to (several versions of) Rip and (way later) Lily. I could see her growing up a bit, getting some gear, and joining the Teen Titans or something. But Booster would probably need his own book back before we could get into any exploration of this or his role as a dad... or finally finding out who is Mrs. Carter.

I would really like to see her reappear at some point. She can be older... maybe even around Irey West's age.

Brandon posted on Oct. 9, 2023 at 12:21 AM

And if you're open to suggestions for further entries, might I suggest Mindancer?

I thought she was cool. The "psychic battery" angle to her powers was interesting.

And her final scene where we find out her head under the mask is just a skull was gross/cool. Always bummed that Jurgens never followed up in that thread.

Comics industry in India has traditionally been dependent on the foreign publications. Publishers and Distributors believed that obtaining licenses from the foreign syndicates and comics publishers were more easy and cost-effective then employing artists and writers to create local comic strips or books. This started off with Newspaper comic strips, and saw itself being adopted by leading comics publications which entered this picture based story-telling field of India, like Indrajal Comics, Star Comics, etc.

Other than the legendary Amar Chitra Katha (ACK), which revolutionized a generation of kids with rich knowledge of our roots and heritage, only a handful of few decided to pursue the local talents with some quality, most notably Diamond Comics, Manoj Chitra Katha (MCK), and Raj Comics.

But there was one common trait in acquiring International licenses among these comics publications. Their main source was the Golden genre of American Comics. Very few dared to go beyond the riches which were available in American Comics Industry, part of the reason was also due to the availability of American Syndication representatives (who were responsible for maintaining or licensing the copyright for these comic strips and books), who were available right inside our country. And this is where the Tamil Comics Industry in India scores ahead from the rest of its other state counter parts, by relying heavily on the British Genre of Comics.

The publishers were Sivakasi based Muthu Fine Arts, who had Mr. Mullai Thangarasan as the Editor for the venture. Muthu singlehandedly pioneered a generation of Tamil Comics, and was the first to establish the standards for the industry.

Contrary to the the Superhero comics adopted by the publications backed up by big media houses, Muthu Comics decided to pursue the riches which were available in the British Genre, most notably in England based, and now defunct, Fleetway Publications.

British Genre, unlike American Comics that time was more sentimental, and had a strong story-plot, which is often assisted by a equal dose of Sci-Fi storylines and characters, like Steel Claw, The Spider, Iron Man Archie, etc. (Pic: AkoTheeka)

So there were no surprises that the stories were well received by Tamil Comics fans, with the only complaint over Muthu being its irregular publishing, which often deprived fans from enjoying the titles uninterrupted. It took 12 long years for that trend to be reversed, with July 1984 marking a new era in Tamil Comics, with a host of 3 new publications joining the foray.

The second, Mehta Comics, from the same Southern Indian city of Sivakasi, competing toe-toe to against the launch of Lion Comics. Surprisingly, Mr. Mullai Thangarasan who was earlier at the helm of Muthu Comics, had shifted base as the Editor of this new venture.

To know more on this topic, read our Mehta Comics debut post here.

Rani Comics, despite all its initial success had to face the law of averages, as it started to lose it sheen, contributed heavily by the change of his Editor, and then bad character and story choices. The latter's translation in Tamil also added to the misery, with Rani finally closing shops in 2005, after a total run of 21 long years.

Obviously, the Golden Age starts and ends in the period when Mr.Ramajayam was at the helm of the affairs. Not only he lined up world famous characters, he also added enough varieties, by introducing Cowboy, Wartime, Science-fiction stories in their host of titles, thus going on to establish itself as the best known Tamil Comics during its time. During this time, it was the only Tamil Comics, which even overshadowed the legendary Muthu Comics and its counterpart Lion Comics, by a long distance, both in terms of sales, and wide reach.

Some of the famous comic stars who appeared on Rani Comics, during this time period were: (Many of them were used with original names in Tamil, the exceptions being differentiated with bracketed names)

Moreover, this was the time when apart from featuring the British Genre of Comics, Rani ultimately ended up bringing some American comic characters too, by tying up with King Features Syndicate (many of the stories they used during this time were also published by Indrajal Comics)

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