"Indrajal Comics was a comic book series in India launched by the publisher of The Times of India, Bennet, Coleman & Co in March 1964. Back in the 1960s, when The Phantom comic strip by Lee Falk grew very popular in India, Anant Pai and others in Indrajal Comics collected them and published it as a comic book.The artwork of the covers for the initial 50 issues was done by B.Govind, which were highly regarded by Indian comics readers. Indrajal Comics covers essentially had three styles. The first with a small logo at the top left, featuring a child with a magic lamp, which was later replaced with just a magic lamp logo, with full-page cover art. The second was a thick horizontal section with a portrait of the Phantom, in a colored circle at the top-left, and the title Indrajal Comics beside it. The third and the last cover design had a larger horizontal section, with Indrajal and a small portrait of the Phantoms, with COMICS written in large letters. The earliest of the covers were drawn and painted by different artists. Later on too, they were drawn by artists like Shehab. Later on, cover art also included original artwork from the strip itself, apart from the ones drawn by artists. The Indrajal Comics covers typically depicted intriguing scenes from the main title story within. Artists like Shehab and Shekhar drew covers for foreign features like the Phantom, Mandrake, Flash Gordon, and others. The scenes which went on the covers were typically chosen to be intriguing so that they evoked interest and curiosity in the readers. May it be a scene in which the hero of the story in peril, or some action scene, or some other scene of significance, Indrajal Comics covers were very vibrant and original."

Amar Chitra Katha is an Indian publisher of Indian comics and graphic novels. The first comic from Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) was Krishna , written by Anant Pai himself in 1969 and illustrated by Ram Waeerkar. The company was founded in 1967 by Anant Pai and is headquartered in Mumbai. Most of its comics are based on religious legends and epics, historical figures and biographies, folktales, and cultural stories. It is said that 10,000 copies of the first edition of Krishna were printed, and it took about two years to sell them. The title went on to sell half a million copies.