What’s Special? • In this first story in the SuperWeirdos series, Aisha goes hunting for superpowers and gets the shock of her life in SuperWeirdos: Tremors. • A miserly king announces a grand feast with no intention of feeding anyone. But his guests come up with a clever solution to outwit him. Check out How the Miser Outsmarted Himself. • A burglar breaks into a house in a village. It’s now up to the house’s owners to find a stealthy way to alert the village guard. Find out how they do it in Rama to the Rescue. • Shambu is transported back in time and has to face creatures more ferocious than tigers and lions—dinosaurs! Does he survive? Or make his way back to the present? Check out Shikari Shambu: Dino Land. Also starring: Khandoba the miser wants to eat vadas but is unwilling to buy the ingredients. So he goes about gathering the necessary materials in a unique manner in The Man Who Loved Vadas. Strange footprints have been spotted in Pyarelal’s village. So, Pyarelal puts on his thinking cap to track the creature and lead it out of the village in Pyarelal: The Mysterious Footprints. Kalia visits his friend Sundar the peacock, but finds him in a tough spot with Sundari the peahen and... Chamataka! It’s up to Kalia to save the day in Kalia the Crow. An old couple in Punjab has a large plot of land, but no means to plough it for crops. That’s when the lady comes up with a smart idea to get it done in The Treasure Hunt.

Fun, fun and more fun. This issue has more pages, more Tinkle Toons and loads of exciting features. After all we celebrate both the Tinkle Anniversary and Children’s Day on November 14! So, the theme for the issue is 3-bute. We pay 3-bute to the iconic writers and artists of Tinkle with get-to-know features on Subba Rao, Luis Fernandes, Ram Waeerkar, VB Halbe, Pradeep Sathe and Dev Nadkarni. What’s more? Each feature is accompanied by a story from our Classics! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a Sherlock Holmes ComiClassic feature in our 3-bute to famous authors. What better 3-bute to our beloved readers than a Fan Fiction story? And finally, we have a 3-bute to Tinkle Toons. With an All-Toon issue, we have nearly all characters featuring in this issue, whether through individual stories or mash-ups. So, there’s Suppandi in his new avatar of Super Suppandi, Shikari Shambu, Dental Diaries, Ina Mina Mynah Mo, SuperWeirdoes, Tantri the Mantri... need we go on? Not to be left behind are a Spotlight on one of Tinkle’s founders Subba Rao, Things You Didn’t Know About the Tinkle Team, and to wrap it all up, a sweet incident from Uncle Pai’s life. Oh, did we forget the FREE Tinkle Toon book labels inside the issue? Enjoy!

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