What’s Special? • What happens when Gundan and Gundi eat up the lion’s share of dosas? Find out in The Lion Who Loved Dosas. • Tantri lures Hooja on to a faulty aeroplane. When his plans seem to be succeeding, an unexpected person turns the tables in Tantri the Mantri: The Great Fall. • Revisit Shikari Shambu’s very first adventure as he is tasked with tracking a ferocious tiger. • A thief disguised as Santa Claus. Suppandi eager to help him. What follows? Suppandi: Spreading Christmas Cheer. Hohoho! Also starring: Find out how an old lady outwits a thief in The Talking Lamp. Doob Doob learns to climb a tree but this helps no one, especially Chamataka in Kalia the Crow. A king decides to appoint a new tax collector in the most bizarre way—by making the applicants dance in The Selection Dance. Our very own Uncle Pai, the founder-editor of Tinkle, narrates a scary tale—Ghost!

BRAND NEW STORY: “Cup of Copy” Archie is appointed with a very important task from Mr. Weatherbee. It seems simple enough—but with Archie in charge, things are certain to go awry!

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!