In your dreams, Tantri!

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My folks went to India and on the way back they brought a couple Tinkles, being the wonderful people that they are. While reading one of these today, I came across some gotcha journalism from Uncle Pai. There is a episode of Tantri the Mantri, where Raja Hooja actually dies!

The story goes, Raja Hooja dies but his cousin comes by to claim the throne. Tantri uses his clever schemes and easily eliminates the pretender king within three panels. The episode ends with Tantri on the throne! But then he wakes up since it was all a dream. Gotcha!

I think this was the closest a regular Tinkle character got to their desire. I don't know any stories where Chamatka gets Kalia, where Shikari Shambu doesn't catch the animal, where Tantri defeats Hooja. So this was quite a find.