adventures of garth used to be just that.... 'adventure', adventure in space, time travel, struggle of good against evil, garth against drug peddlers syndicate and so on, initial few stories that i came across in local hindi daily ' dainik hindustan ' at probably the age of11- or 12 in my school days , the 'rebels',big joker',' time couriers',' lord of the computers', the brain',' wrath of venus',night of the knives' were pure unadulterated juvenile sci fi adventure stuff , then penned by legendary peter o'donnel and drawn by steven dowling...in those days there was very little nudity in this british comic strip, a little bit of sensuality started creeping in in later day adventures like 'time lock''brain voyagers' and 'journey in to fear' ,however from the time frank bellammy took over the strip as garth artist he brought a liberal dose of seductive lovelies with many topless women liberally thrown in, trend worsened with some martin asburey drawn adventures like 'mr. rubio calls 'saphire'' man hunt' etc to name a few...however surprisingly there were no censors applied to this nudity in even our vernacular language daily papers in India in those days, it seems that garth strip was published in other languages like German Turkish,belgian, and in Indonesia too, my good friend from jakarta antonius eko haryanto posted quite a few later day adventure for me on face book which i have been posting on my blog, it is amusing to see that while both our Indian and Indonesian cultures are fairly conservative but in newspapers no attempt was made to cover up the female nudity , while in Indonesian [and some other language strips ] there is an attempt to cover up the gorgeous females drawn by martin asbury...here i have posted a few strips from garth adventure 'la belle suavage' which appeared as such in our English daily Hindustan times in year 1984 ,along with same strips posted by my friend antonius later on in2012----
