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IANS New Delhi

Three unpublished comics of late cartoonist Pran Kumar Sharma, creator of comic characters like Chacha Chaudhary, will be available on an e-commerce website from Sep 1, organisers said Thursday.

Amazon India has tied-up with the Diamond group to release a set of five books in English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati. Each set will have nine comics of which three are unpublished.

According to a statement, the unpublished titles will feature Chacha Chaudhary in "Fake Currency", Billoo in "Short Break" and Pinki in "Laptop".

Popularly known as Pran, the father of Indian comics died earlier this month.

He had also created other characters like Shrimatiji, Raman and Chachi.

 

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First Published: Aug 28 2014 | 7:24 PM IST

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