New Delhi, Aug 25 - Detective Feluda is here, Tintin-style. The iconic private eye - a character created by legendary filmmaker-writer Satyajit Ray in his Bengali whodunits - has entered the animated, colourful world of comic books.

Feluda alias Prodosh Kumar Mitter - who acquired cult following among young readers in West Bengal in the 1970s and 80s and later on screen - has been put together in comic book format by children's writer Subhadra Sengupta and illustrator Tapas Guha, both of whom are based here.

Two of the first lot of five books, 'Beware in the Graveyard' and 'A Bagful of Mystery', were published by Penguin Books-India this week and will be launched soon.

Three more books, 'Murder By the Sea', 'The Killer of Kathmandu' and 'Danger in Darjeeling' will be published later this year.

'In 'A Bagful of Mystery', detective Feluda's client Dinanath Lahiri finds his bag replaced with an identical one on a train from Delhi to Kolkata. As Feluda comes in to investigate, the bag throws up complex mysteries. A rare manuscript or an artefact might have found its way into his bag,' said text-writer Sengupta, outlining the stories to IANS.

'Beware in the Graveyard' revolves around a rare watch, which lies in an old grave at the Park Street cemetery in Kolkata.

'An antique watch dealer tries to steal it with the descendants of the dead man. The action packed search takes the private eye and his team through the streets of Kolkata,' Sengupta said.

Feluda and his team, of course, shed their 70s garb and language.