The Man Who Gave India Its Own Superheroes | Sanjay Gupta, Raj Comics | Chaos To Clarity Podcast
About this episode
Before Nagraj, before Doga, before Bhokal — India had no superheroes of its own. In this episode of Chaos To Clarity Podcast, Piyush Thacker sits down with Sanjay Gupta, co-founder of Raj Comics — the man who created India's first superhero universe from scratch. No school, no teacher, no market. Just a 16-year-old kid inspired by mythological gods and a Spider-Man TV episode, who decided India deserved its own heroes.
Sanjay Ji shares the 40-year journey — from being rejected by distributors who didn't believe superhero comics would sell in India, to building a universe of over 1000 characters that shaped an entire generation's childhood.
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Chapters
- 00:00Intro
- 00:37Growing up in a publishing family
- 03:29Why India needed its own superheroes
- 06:05The Spider-Man episode that changed everything
- 10:55How Nagraj was born
- 15:19"Superhero comics won't sell in India" — market rejection
- 22:07Marketing a product nobody understood
- 27:52"DC and Marvel were my university"
- 29:51The story behind Doga
- 34:28Sanjay Ji's dream for 140 crore storytellers
- 42:01Fan engagement — from fan mail to Comic Con
- 53:16How Sanjay Ji defines clarity