As of May 2014 Amar Chitra Katha have released 465 titles (454 individual issues and 11 special issues). Amar Chitra Katha also issues a collection of individual comics as a set of "3 in one" or "5 in one".[3][4]
Amar Chitra Katha The Complete Collection Set Of 242 Ack Titles And 3 Special Issues By Anant Pai[1]
included five new titles.16During this period they alsopublished a number of special issues, all but one acombination ofearlier single issues. Two of these new special issuesare ofparticular note here: Bhagawat- The Krishna Avata(although itconsists ofearlier issues,I ammissing most of the originals) andRam
Below I list first the 426 titles (subtitles in quotes) of theoriginal Amar Chitra Katha issues, next 8 titlesospecial issues,the 5 new titlesadded between 1998 and 2005, then new series titlesthat began to come outin 2010 (as of 2014 this list may be out ofdate). After the footnotes, Appendix Iis a numerical list of thenewseries issues, while Appendix IIlists the old series numbers thathave not yet been reprinted. As formy personal collection, themissing issues are listed below in Appendix III.
Amar Chitra Katha has also issued numerous other special issuescombining new and/or old series issues.The following is mentionedin particular not just because it has five titles not re-issuedseparately in thenew series, but because it includes The ChosenBridegroom, which I was not able to get from the oldseries.
In sum, as of March 2014 ACK had published 452 different singletitles plus five special issues with newmaterial. The single titlesincluded the 424 old series + 28 new series titles, i.e., all ofthe old seriesnumbers (#11 to #434) plus only the new issues withinthe new series (#501-#814). As for their specialissues, althoughthese have been quite numerous, only five have had newmaterial.
My new series collectionIssues I have from the new series(compare the complete list) are of three types, listed here inthree places.Most important for my collection are the issues forwhich I do not have the original from the old series at 2ff7e9595c
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