Raj Comics
Super Commando Dhruv: The Hero Without Superpowers
In the 1980s, as a liberalising India opened to the world, the Indian superhero was being Americanised. Raj Comics' answer, in 1987, was radical: Super Commando Dhruv, a young man with no superpowers, no secret identity, and a logical mind as his sharpest weapon.
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