Nagraj

Nagraj

Nagraj (“Snake-King”) is an Indian comic book character from Raj Comics and is considered to be their flagship character. Created in the late 1980′s. Nagraj was created by Professor Nagmani as a project, to create the Ultimate Killing Machine, and his original plan was to sell Nagraj, in bidding to the highest bidder, amongst all the Villains and Terrorist Group worldwide.

However, later stories told that his snake abilities come from his ‘divine’ origin i.e. his family deity “Dev Kaljayi” who had given a boon to his parents to have a son after many years of trying to conceive. But due to his uncle Nagapasha’s evil plans, Nagraj’s to-be-mother Queen Lalita was poisoned by Dev Kaljayi’s venom. After lots of prayers by his to-be-father King Takshak Raj, the angered deity agreed to spare the life of the queen but the only way possible was to concentrate the venom into the unborn Nagaraj. So, Nagaraj appeared to be born dead, and was floated in the river by his parents.

How he came to life is still unknown. But speculations point out that being a boon of his, Dev Kaljayi decided to spare both his and his mother’s lives. During his hibernation Nagaraj is known to have spent some time on the “Nagdweep” (island of ichchadhari or shape-shifting snakes). Later on, Nagaraj ends up in evil Professor Nagamani’s captivity where Professor Nagmani merely used him for his other experimental projects and leasing him for international terrorism.

Nagraj and His Snake Power

Nagmani always claimed that Nagraj’s powers were evolved by feeding him bits of snake poison till his blood becomes poison itself. He also claimed that he is more poisonous than 1000 snakes. That fact is that he was much more poisonous than that. This echoes the Indian legends of Poison-Men or Women, specifically raised to kill by their kiss.

 Based largely on the Hindu myth of the shape shifting snake, Nagraj derives most of his powers from microscopic snakes that live in his bloodstream (in lieu of white blood cells) and has a number of powers like superhuman strength, poisonous breath and bite, instant healing powers and of course, snakes who come out of his wrists separately or make interesting shapes like ropes, parachutes and many other depending on his imagination. Earlier he was said to contain poison of thousands of snakes. Later stories subsequently made him more powerful making his venom far more stronger than Potassium Cyanide resulting in melting of any living being’s body if he happens to bite them or vice-versa.

Nagraj and Raj

Nagraj was originally conceived as an enemy of international terrorism. Interestingly, in his debut, Nagraj was unleashed as an international terror weapon by the evil scientist Professor Nagmani. Nagraj in this first mission was tasked to steal golden statue of a Goddess from a temple protected by tribal devotes, snakes & by a mysterious more than 300 years old Sadhu named Baba Gorakhnath. Nagraj succeeded in his task but upon confrontation with Gorakhnath & his mystic Black Mongoose Shikangi was defeated. Gorakhnath read his mind & found out that Professor Nagmani had implanted a mind controlling device in form of a capsule in Nagraj's head to keep him under his control.
Gorakhnath operated & removed the capsule from Nagraj's head setting Nagraj free who became his disciple & vowed to eliminate crime & terror from the Earth. Since then Nagraj has thrice toured the World & defeated many villains & terrorists.Presently Nagraj lives as Raj in a fictional Metropolitan City Mahanagar as an empolyee in a TV Channel Bharti Communications,secretly owned by himself.

In our blog we are providing some of his popular comics including his first appeared "Nagraj".

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