About this issue
What’s Special? Buckle up your seat belts because this issue of Tinkle will take you on a wild, thrilling ride! · What fresh trouble will Wai Knot find himself in, when he’s Camped Out? Read on to make your summer holidays extra special! · Find out how an endangered animal saves his zoo-mates from smugglers in ‘Bear’y Comfortable! · Will Shambu be able to trap the fearsome endangered animal from dimension 44x? Find out in Shikari Shambu: Dimension Correction. · Celebrate World Metrology Day by understanding how humans found out how to measure weights, distances and heights in The Story of Measures! · Figure out how to make your very own fossil museum in DIY: Fantastic Fossils for World Museums Day! Also Starring: Suppandi joins a gym but will he be able to keep up? Find out in Suppandi: Crunch Crisis. A group of kids go to new lengths to get out of a class test in Blown up in Smoke. Will our terrified new SuperWeirdo be able to stop Zeck’s new evil plan? Find out in SuperWeirdos: Blub! Blub! Blub! And find out whether Rihan will be able to rescue the kidnapped Ishan in Thrillers: Grave Problems (Part 2).
About TINKLE
Tinkle started as a fortnightly children’s comics magazine, in 1980. Under the guidance of editor-founder, Anant Pai, the brand evolved the tagline ‘Where learning meets fun’. It was one of the first few children’s comics magazines with Indian content at that time. Till then children were reading syndicated foreign comics, – Archies, Phantom, Mandrake – translated into Indian languages. In Tinkle, children could read folktales from all over the world as well as stories revolving around the Tinkletoons. Many of these characters have evolved into icons such as Suppandi, Shikari Shambu, Tantri the Mantri, Kalia the Crow, etc. Over the years, newer characters have stepped into the Tinkle pages. These include the Defective Detectives, Butterfingers, Sea Diaries, etc. Apart from comics, the magazine also engages readers with several educative non-fiction pages including puzzles, do-it-yourself crafts, solve-it-yourself mysteries, knowledge features on a wide range of subjects and contests. Though intended as a magazine for children between the ages of 8 and 14, Tinkle’s reach goes far beyond. Families eagerly look forward to the magazine, every month, across the length and breadth of the country. It is probably not just the entertainment but the unexpected insights that the magazine gives their children that families value. Owing to Uncle Pai’s efforts, Tinkle is also welcomed by educators and school principals and thus holds a position as a recommended magazine for wholesome edutainment.