"The Crucial Moment - My 1250 days of IJC blogging"

Today is 1250th day of my Indrajal blogging. It's 666th post of this blog.

In this little affort,

• 108 000 000 seconds
• 1 800 000 minutes
• 30 000 hours
• 1250 days
• 178+ weeks
• 41+ months
• 3 years, 5 months & 2 days

have been passed.

My 1st IJC post (Wednesday, 14 May 2008) came at bookscomics.blogspot.com as 13th post (one of my lucky number). It contains 22 Indrajal + 1 Rip Kirby comics scanned by Aznaabi.

We launched this MEGA Indrajal blog last year & set some goals.

One of those is sharing all 803 IJCs here, but respecting the time & the energy given by all persons involved. 

 The members are doing what they can & whenever the time permits. Without waiting for comments, I'm posting new scans (provided by contributors) with my usual speed.

But still some numbers are missing.

Till today
- Posted hundreds: It's not secret, average time given in making post & uploading – it’s approx scanning an issue.
- Cleaned lot of issues: Who ever tried cleaning, can understand very well that it takes much more time than scanning.
- Fixed lot of damaged issues: It takes much more time than scanning & cleaning.

“The crucial moment” - What to do for reaching min goal? Starting scanning? Why not?

Starting with English version of the very 1st Indrajal I ever read. Very special attachment with this issue.

In future in scanning, I’ll concentrate at missing HR IJCs numbers of this blog only.  In this India visit, I’ll pick in good quantity English & Hindi IJCs which are not planned by other team members/contributors. Till that, some English numbers will be scanned.

Two words about this number: This number contains two strips by Lee Falk:
D-133: The Proposal (21 Feb 1977 - 2 Apr 1977)
Artist: Sy Barry

S-026: The Mysterious Passenger (14 May 1950 - 16 Jul 1950)
Artist: Wilson McCoy
Note: S-026 was printed in #17 as 1st story.

Download NEW HR C2C scans (2200px width) 

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Hindi Indrajal details (1-209)

We have at least one version of English Indrajal Comics. With a very good speed, the better scans of English Indrajal are coming online.
However, still long way to go with Hindi Indrajal Comics.

Here are scans which contains details about Hindi Indrajal details (1 to 209) prepared by Anurag Dixit.


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Anurag is making the complete list, i.e. 1 to 803.
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इंद्रजाल कॉमिक्स संक्या २२८: तुलसीकृत "रामचरित मानस" भाग २: उत्तरार्ध

बंधुओं आज प्रस्तुत है, अनुराग भाई के अद्वितीय हिंदी इंद्रजाल संग्रह से  हिन्दी साहित्य की एक महानतम रचना का कॉमिक रूपांतरण: 

इस कॉमिक की खाशियत यह है कि इसमें मूल ग्रंथ की चौपाइयों या उसके अंशों के साथ समकालीन हिंदी भाषांतर भी है|   

रामचरितमानस अधिनायकों  और उनके बलिदानों की कहानी है| यह वर्णों के विभिन्न प्रकार और उनके व्यवहार, रवैया, संचार और नेतृत्व  की अलग शैली की कहानी है| वैसे तो माना जाता है यह मुख्यतः उत्तर भारत के हिन्दुओं के घर- घर पाया जानेवाला धर्म ग्रंथ है, लेकिन जो नीति और मर्यादा पुरुषोतम का उदाहरण इसमें दी गयी है, वो धर्म, प्रदेशों और देशों  की सीमाओं से बहुत ऊपर है|

रामचरितमानस शब्द "राम", "चरित" (चरित्र) और "मानस" (सरोवर) शब्दों के मेल से बना है अर्थात् "राम के चरित्र का सरोवर"।रामचरितमानस को सामान्यतः 'तुलसी रामायण' या 'तुलसी कृत रामायण' भी कहा जाता है| इस महाग्रंथ के रचियता गोस्वामी तुलसीदास जी (1532 -1623) ने  बालकाण्ड में स्वयं लिखा है कि उन्होंने रामचरितमानस की रचना का आरंभ अयोध्यापुरी में विक्रम संवत् 1631 (1574 AD) के रामनवमी (मंगलवार) को किया था| गीताप्रेस गोरखपुर के श्री हनुमान प्रसाद पोद्दार के अनुसार रामचरितमानस को लिखने में गोस्वामी तुलसीदास जी को दो वर्ष सात माह एवं छब्बीस दिन का समय लगा था और संवत् 1633 (1576 AD) के मार्गशीर्ष शुक्लपक्ष में रामविवाह के दिन उसे पूर्ण किया था|  

रामचरित मानस की रचना उस समय की अवधी भाषा में की गई थी जो कि हिंदी की ही एक शाखा है| ।  मानस में संस्कृत, फारसी और उर्दू के शब्दों की भरमार है। तुलसीदास ने अवधी और ब्रज भाषा के मिले-जुले स्वरूप को प्रचलित किया। तुलसीदास ने संज्ञाओं का प्रयोग क्रिया के रूप में किया तथा क्रियाओं का प्रयोग संज्ञा के रूप में। इस प्रकार के प्रयोगों के उदाहरण बिरले ही मिलते हैं। तुलसीदास ने भाषा को नया स्वरूप दिया।

अपने दीर्घ जीवन-काल में तुलसीदास जी ने कुल 22 कृतियों की रचना की है जिनमें से पाँच बड़ी एवं छः मध्यम श्रेणी में आती हैं। रामचरितमानस के बाद हनुमान चालीसा, जो कि हिन्दुओं की दैनिक प्रार्थना कही जाती है, तुलसीदास जी की अत्यन्त लोकप्रिय साहित्य रचना है। 

रामचरितमानस निम्नलिखित सात "काण्डों" में विभक्त हैः

१.बालकाण्ड (१-३६१)

२.अयोध्या काण्ड (१-३२६)

पहले दो काण्डों पर कॉमिक्स का पहला भाग आधारित था, यह भाग बाकी पाँच काण्डों पर  आधारित है| 
 

३.अरण्य काण्ड (१-४६)

४.किष्किन्धा काण्ड (१-३०)

५.सुन्दर काण्ड (१-६०)

६.लंका काण्ड (१-१२१)

७.उत्तर कांड (१-१३१)

संशोधन के पहले 

इस महाकाव्य पे जितना भी लिखा जाय कम है, विशिष्ठ पहलुओं पे फिर  कभी History and Mythology ब्लॉग पे हम आगे बढ़ेंगे|  

तुलसीकृत  "रामचरित मानस" भाग २: उत्तरार्ध
संचयन: नरेन्द्र शर्मा
चित्रकार: रवि परांजेप
कुल  पृष्ठ: ९३
स्कैन योगदानकर्ता: अनुराग दीक्षित 

अगर आप इसे पढ़ना चाहते हैं तो डाउनलोड करने के लिए लिंक यहाँ नीचे उपलब्ध है:

संशोधन  के बाद 

 

१६०० पिक्सेल- ४९.४७ MB
                 या
२००० पिक्सेल - १०९.५ MB

 तनिक स्कैन संशोधन में मेरा भी  प्रयास शामिल है| मिसाल की तौर पे पेश है, मात्र दो पृष्टों में से एक पृष्ट जिसका एक भाग क्षतिग्रस्त था| मुख्य पृष्ठ पे मामूली सी मरम्मत और बाकि सभी चमकदार बनाने की कोशिश की है, जो शायद और भी अच्छी हो सकती थी|


उम्मीद है आप सभी निराश ना होंगे|


चलते चलते कुछ अनमोल शब्द रामचरित मानस से ही: 

सचिव बैद गुरु तीनि जौं,
प्रिय बोलहिं भय आस
राज, धर्म,तन तीनि कर,
होई बेगहिं नास
अर्थात: मंत्री, बैद्य और गुरु ये तीन यदि अप्रसन्नता के भय या लाभ की आशा में प्रिय शब्द कहते हैं, यानि वास्तविकता को छिपाते हैं, वैसे राज्य, शरीर और धर्म इन तीनों का नाश निश्चित है|
 ~ सुन्दरकांड

खल सन कलह न भल नहिं प्रीति
अर्थात: अशांति के साथ ना कलह अच्छा, ना ही प्रेम अच्छा |  
~ उत्तरकांड

दुष्टों के बारे में:

झूठई लेना झूठई देना । झूठई भोजन झूठई चबेना ॥
बोलहिं मधुर बचन जिमी मोरा। खाई महा अहि ह्रदय कठोर ॥


अर्थात: उनका झूठा ही लेना और झूठा ही देना होता है । झूठा ही भोजन होता है और झूठा ही चबेना होता है| यानि लेन - देन के व्यवहार में झूठ का आश्रय लेकर दूसरों का हक़ मारते हैं और खुद फायदा  उठाकर  मदद करने का ढोंग करते हैं|  जैसे मोर बहुत मीठा बोलता है, परन्तु  ह्रदय  कठोर होता है। वैसे ही दुष्ट भी ऊपर से मीठे बचन बोलते हैं, परन्तु ह्रदय के बड़े निर्दयी होते हैं ।

अवगुन सिन्धु मंदमति कामी । बेद बिदूषक परधन स्वामी ॥
बिप्र द्रोह पर द्रोह बिसेषा । दंभ कपट जिय धरे सुबेषा ॥


अर्थात: वे अवगुणों के समुद्र , मंदबुद्धि कामी और पराये धन को लूटने वाले होते हैं । वे दूसरों से द्रोह रखते हैं। उनके ह्रदय में कपट और दंभ भरा होता है परन्तु वे सुन्दर वेश धारण किये रहते हैं|

मैं अपनी दिसी किन्ही निहोरा तिन्ह निज ओर न लाउब भोरा
बायस पली अहिं अति अनुरागा होहिं निरामिष कबहूँ कि कागा


अर्थात: मैंने अपनी ओर से विनती भी की है , परन्तु वे अपनी ओर से कभी नहीं चुकेंगे। कौवों को कितना भी प्रेम से पालिए परन्तु क्या कभी मांस खाना त्याग सकते हैं|

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IJC POSTERS

Giving some posters for the new year..hope everybody will like them..

Credit goes to Prabhat for the 2nd poster..
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Now all 803 English Indrajal Comics are online. Last 6 English Indrajal Comics - #272, #278, #V21N07, #V25N32, #V25N41,#V26N34

This party is brought to you by Ajay Misra, Venkitachalam Subramanian, Ajnaabi, Mr. Walker and Shekhar Chandra.

I’m a medium only.

Indrajal Digital posting period: 17th April 2005 to 24 july 2009, 4 years & 102 days, i.e. 1562 days. And, this post is making all 803 English Indrajal online. Hurrah!

272-1977-Miscellaneous-Mahabharata Part 1

278-1977-Miscellaneous-Mahabharata Part 2

I had a dream to collect all Indrajal Comics since childhood when I read first Indrajal (#295). I started waiting next one from the day I got current issue. At that town, there was no chance to buy old issues. The only way to read old issues was collection of elder brothers of my friends.

With time I collected almost all issues starting from #295. But major part of collection is lost now. Never thought, I could see these again. When I found these at net in Aug 2007 in digital form, couldn’t believe. Where I'm living at present, finding English or Hindi comic is almost impossible.

Although B&C blog was launched on 18 Nov 2007, I started Indrajal posting since 14 May 2008, when again deficit of scans were recreated after regular flow by several blogs. Motivating factors were contributors and thousands Indrajal fan like me, who wish to collect or read.

And terror of PBC, later Munna Bhai started. Several times, I received letters from hardcore fans that they could not able to read due to floods of IJC, however always requested to continue.

Believe, time and tide never wait for anyone. There are many friendly persons who have nice collections, but can’t scan and share due to lack of time or any other reason. When friends are in mood to scan and share, why not try to achieve the target. When I started posting IJC, couldn’t guess in next 14-15 months we’d have all missing Indrajal. Ajnaabi, Ajay, Anurag, Anon (Indrajal), Raj, Venkit, Shekhar’s father and Shekhar are those friends who made it possible. KK & Mr. Walker (a new blogger) had supported with missing cover pages. Prashant Gupta & Vikram Singh are two contributors which scans I received through Ajay.

Two words about my Indrajal contributors:

• Ajnaabi: Amazing man who concentrates at missing and neglected, but good comics. Whenever he finds there is need to help always comes forward. I had started posting Indrajal with his 22 scans as the first post. Major parts of less popular heroes of Indrajal Comics are digitalized by him.

• Ajay Misra: His contribution to digital Indrajal is unmatchable. The major part of Indrajal at net are his contributions. Unmatchable speed of scanning. Helped with other scans – Deshi Guru, Shekhar’s father, Shekhar, Prashant Gupta & Vikram. Venkit says him, 'Vishm Pitamah'.

• Anurag: Most probably he has the biggest collection of Hindi Indrajal - 770 and many more English Indrajal and other Hindi comics. Whenever I request, he always finds time to scan in his busy schedule. His son is one of the top rank junior tennis players of India, he regularly travels with him.

• Anon (Indrajal): Wonderful person, even doesn’t tell me real identity. Contacted and in very short period flooded Indrajal. Encouraged me to start using Photoshop and guided in early stage.

• Raj: Nice cool person, started scanning & posting silently. First I found his scans at esnips, later found his blog. Whenever he has time scans and quickly posts. Always ready to help.

• Venkit: A new star who came in the light few months ago. Thanks to him, the major part of Bahadur comics is available as e-comics. Last Indrajal #V27N08 was scanned by him.

• Shekhar’s father: He is 80+, earlier helped with #16 Indrajal Comics, #58 cover page using a digital camera and this time, the cover of Mahabharata part 1.

• Shekhar: Last 2 scans we were expecting from another person, but due to unexpected reasons, didn't get on time. Shekhar ji (who has all Indrajal) had visited from USA 2 days ago. Ajay explained the situation, without a second thought he agreed to help. Yesterday, as he visited home, took photos and sent. Words are not enough to thank him. Ajnaabi finished editing these 2 Indrajal, 4.30 A.M. morning today.

• Mr. Walker: Came to know about missing covers of Mahabharata part1, quickly contributed.

• KK: Provided missing English cover pages of #V24N38, we were searching since a long time.

This blog exists since last 69 days. Contains 117 English and 6 Hindi. It’s important to note that 32 out of 117 were posted at Grouchy’s Comics blog. For new visitors, I put here with his permission when he removed from his blog.

I afraid to count how many Indrajal posted at B&C blog. Started posting Indrajal 1 year, 2 month and 10 days ago, i.e. 484 days only.

V21N07-1984-Lt.Drake-The Mantle of Mystery

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V25N32-1988-Mandrake-The Maze Of Deceit Mandrake

(Reprinted version of #153-1972-The Master of Disguise)

Till today I hasn't scanned any comics. Neither all Indrajal are not posted by me nor had I started posting. I’m a late comer, what I observed or got information from others, feel need to mention some important names:

• TCP: The pioneer IJC blogger, amazing combination of quality & frequency.

• Vineeth Abraham, who just gave early edition of 100+ Indrajal Comics physical copies to Ajay in the very first meeting, which later we read as Ajay’s scan.

• Deshi Guru, contributor of Indrajal Comics and #1 to #5 Hindi Indrajal covers.

• ER Bhoopthy: person who has scanned #1 Indrajal Comics.


If I had missed any name, let me know, I’ll add. Very thankful to all known and unknown persons who scanned or posted even single new Indrajal.

There are several bloggers who played important role in English Indrajal posting, some had posted in other languages, and it has encouraged English bloggers, at least me certainly.

Indrajal bloggers:

1. English

#	Blogger	First Indrajal posting date	Last Indrajal posting date	IJC available in languages	Blog launched
1	TCP	April 17, 2005	April 16, 2009	English, Hindi and Tamil	April 17, 2005
2	CW	Feb 4, 2007	June 27, 2009	English and Hindi	Feb 4, 2007
3	ANUPAM AGRAWAL	May 3, 2007	June 30, 2008	English and Hindi	May 1, 2007
4	Kit Walker	May 15, 2007	June 14, 2007	English only	April 29, 2007
5	ICC	June 2, 2007	April 10, 2009	English and Hindi	June 2, 2007
6	OIC	Aug 21, 2007	May 30, 2008	English and Hindi	July 16, 2007
7	Bala ji	Sep 27, 2007	May 8, 2009	English only	June 26, 2007
8	TPH	Dec 13, 2007*	March 8, 2009	English and Hindi	Nov 30, 2007*
9	Sameer	Jan 10, 2008	July 6, 2009	English, Hindi and Marathi	Jan 10, 2008
10	Dara	Jan 23, 2008	Dec 6, 2008	English comics, Bengali covers	April 6, 2007
11	PBC!	May 14, 2008	April 28, 2009	English and Hindi	18 Nov, 2007
12	Munna Bhai!	May 17, 2009	July 24, 2009	English*** and Hindi	May 17, 2009
13	Mr Walker	July 9, 2009	July 21, 2009	Bengali, English and Hindi**	July 9, 2009

*Exact date not available, as he deleted & reposted after few months.

! Are PBC & Munna Bhai same ? It's not our problem, my ADVOCATE BOSS has to think, how to prove. We challenged and posted openly. What is name after all for us, both has mentained same frequency & quality of scans.

** Yesterday Mr. Walker had informed his intention to share in Hindi too.

*** Actually Groughy Comics was 11th blogger which provided 35-40 English Indrajal at this platform. 32 out of 117 posted here, were available at Grouchy’s Comics blog.

2. Blogs, which had provided Indrajal in other languages only:

D#	Blogger	First Indrajal posting date	Last Indrajal posting date	IJC available in languages	Blog launched
1	Kit Walker	May 7, 2007	Oct 28, 2007	Gujarati only	May 15, 2007
2	Raj	Sep 8, 2008	June12, 2009	Hindi only	Sep 7, 2008
3	Devil	Feb 22, 2009	May 26, 2009	Bengali only	Feb 22, 2009

I'm referring blogs which provided first time unknown scans at this blogging platform till today only. Links of all blogs are available in sidebar.

And finally, the visitors, Janta Janardan. It’s such a barometer which not only gave information about interest, but always tell us, we were not only few persons who were interested.

Thanks friends! It was a collective project, all participated, visitors, bloggers & contributors.

There is Russian proverb:

• Не име́й сто рубле́й, а име́й сто друзе́й.
• Transliteration: Ne imey sto rubley, a imey sto druzey.
• Translation: Don't have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends.

I'm such a lucky person, have many friends. Whenever I need, God sends one more.

V25N41-1988-Bahadur-The Dreaded Fugitive

V26N34-1988-Dara-The Veiled Secret

Comics’ courtesy:

272- Cover by Shekhar’s father, 4 cover pages by Mr. Walker, all the rest pages by Ajnaabi.
278- All work by Ajnaabi
V21N07- Scanned by Ajay
V25N32 – Photos by Shekhar Chandra, edited by Ajnaabi
V25N41- All work by Venkitachalam Subramanian
V26N34 -Photos by Shekhar Chandra, edited by Ajnaabi

Which comic is 800th and which is 803th, how one oould be chosen. Without 799th - 800th could not be reached. It’s a collective effort and all deserve these landmark places.

Proudly announcing first round of digital Indrajal posting has been closed.

First round? Many which are available in low resolution, will be rescanned. That's why.

Next post: English Indrajal covers. I was going to post in this post, however many covers need repairing, working in this direction.

After an end, a new life begins. So, keep visiting. Not saying Good bye, до свидания (do svidánija) - See you soon!

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"The NEXT BEST thing to a LIVE Thriller"....

....remember this famous caption of Indrajal Comics in the late '80s??(though it was applicable rightly from the beganning!!!isn't it ,friends??:o) )

Being an ardent Indrajal fan,I've cherished every bit of these 'long lost' gems!!! Thus,it's NOT only the original 'comic-pages' but those ads/other stuffs do matter for me a lot! :-)

In short,each & every "Indrajal Pages" are 'priceless gems' for us! Isn't it friends???

From the last few days,I was just curious how many "Indrajal-pages" were published in TOTAL(incld.those Covers/Ads/Features etc besides the original comics ) in those 803 issues!

So I'd looked in this matter more seriously & matter of fact,after bit research I delighted to learn the exact 'figure'(wid some interesting stuffs too!!) .....it's simply amazing, friends!:o)

Now,while the first 28 issues(Ijc No.1 -No.28) were contained 28 pages each(allthough first 10 issues contained 16-page comic each,while next 18 issues were 20-24 pages each of same...rest pages were filled wid some G.K. kinda stuffs!).Then Indrajals were published in conventional & most familiar 32-page format (except one 'bumper' issue,No.49 of 48 pages!)which ran for more than 23 years(Ijc No.29 -No.788/Vol.26 No.32) and it covers 757 issues(out of total 803) !!So it's pretty clear that this 32-page format was almost a characteristic features of this amazing comic-series!

Then in August 1989,i.e. just before 8-9 months of cancelation their series,ToI briefly converted Indrajal Comics in a 36-pager(Vol.26 No.33/No.789 - V27 No.8/No.805) which includes last 17 issues!

So,numerically the TOTAL 'Indrajal Pages' are 25,668(for a TOTAL 803 issues) !!!!

Wow!! A HUGEEEE TREASURE!!ain't??? :o)

Personally,I don't prefer to collect books/comics just for sake of collection(i.e. not intend to read actually).That's the reason why I'd rejected most of the times those B-graded Buz/Garth/Nomad/Corrigan etc with crappy Charlton/King-Phantom/Mandrake/Flash which covers more than 170 Indrajals!Well,I'd collected some of these(~50) to find-out the essence,but I was really disappointed! :-(

But,NOT NOW onwards!!!!! ;O)) Things have been changed quite a lot in the last few months & nowadays I'm looking for any Indrajals which are missing(irespective of titles/heroes) from my collection(physical) or even those I've as cover-less,i.e. missing those 4-page front/back covers! Allthough I don regret much for not taking those(B-grade etc) ,as surely I'll not read them anyway,even if I get them(still ,a few exceptions are bound to happen ) ;).

But obviously I will check those 'other' stuffs like various ads & Henries(love it,love it,love it!!!)/Chimpoo/Babua etc cartoons & of'cos Timpa Comics(loved this kid-detective series!!) ....even in IJC's last days,that funny Agent003(comic-Bond!).Then,there are many various informative-yet-mindblowing Features like Riplies(simply wow!!!) or Capries(Fans loved it's funny dispalys wid 'amazing infos' in each of it's 45 pages!!) or World's tale(Fans mostly loved it's infos on 'Jurasic periods'....ohh,art-work also fabulous wid great write-up!) and many more which are no less important/nosatlgic for us!!!:o)

Between,talking about my 'newly' found addiction/motto(to collect ALL Ijcs 'irrespective' of heroes/publications),fact is I've already collected some ...and looking for the rest!!No doubt,I've enjoyed those 'other stuffs' featured in 5-6 pages of 'these' Ijcs much more than the comic instead!!:-)))

Now coming to an another topic,do our Indrajals Lovers have noticed that the headers of 'Indrajal Comics' were changed for as much as four times!!!

Here's some display of cover's in which headers were changed with times.After the glorious introduction in 1964,the first change was happened in 1967 .

Then in 1983, Indrajal converted in typical Vol.No. category from the individual No.s so also header converted in a pretty larger size!

The last change was happened in 1989 when Ijc briefly returnted in a forthnightly schedule from it's 7-year-long weekly pattern!

Finally,the price!! I still remember,even that price-tag(it was at the bottom side of cover,earlier in a box & later in a circular or simply in an open-format) itself make me nostalgic,since I'd re-started my 'Ijc-hunt' few years back! In the glorious ~27-year-run,Indrajal-fans experinced a pretty cheap price(compare to 'other' comic-publications) which started with 0.6/- (in 1964) & finished at 6.0/- (in 1990) per copy!!! wow!!! even those ordinary Diamond Comics were relatively higher rated!!

P.S.- Forgive me for such a longgg post,but I guess this one is a real informative and a good serve for those looking for intimate details of their loves & NOT only the creamy-part (i.e. ONLY the Comic-pages n nothing else...unfortunetly which's a charcteristic nature of many a 'so-called' Indrajal Lovers in our blogs. :-/ )

Beside this,also I've to confess one thing....I'm simply loving it (i.e. sharing/writing something on these lost gems!) ;o)

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