About this issue
What’s Special? It’s part 2 of Tinkle’s Anniversary party! The celebrations continue with stories of mystery, magic, adventure, thrills, and laughs. The Defective Detectives (and Sam) travel to the past and bump into... Sherlock Holmes! They tag along with the great detective and ruin his every move in solving a case. Check out how in Defective Detectives Starring Sherlock Holmes: The Master. A young girl suddenly finds herself in the land of the Tinkle Toons! But is it really real? Find out in Say ‘Cheese’! Shambu is put in charge of taking care of a tarantula. But the clever little spider escapes into the wild, causing a big problem for Shambu, and a bigger one for the spider itself! Check out Shikari Shambu: Tarantula Tango. The Tinkle Toons’ hunt for a mysterious creature in Aizwa leads them to an even more sinister plot. Someone is hunting down the creature and has captured the Toons too! How will they escape? Find out in the conclusion to the Mega Mash-Up Stranger Sightings. Plus, put your brain to work as you help Tantri uncover a lost land in the challenging mystery game Tantri’s Lost Land. And laugh-out-loud with the Toons at their ‘pun’niest best at the Tinkle Anniversary party in Pun-A-Thon. Also Starring: Suppandi has a new job at a pizza restaurant, but nothing can top his latest goof-up there in No Charge. Dhaval is contacted by a huge pop star on social media and offered tickets to her concert. But his older brother thinks Something’s Fishy. And how good is your knowledge of Tinkle trivia? Put it to the test in this Pic(k) Your Brains edition, especially on Tinkle and the Toons!
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.