Vikram and Vetal, in the Amruta Comics series, is based on an ancient collection of stories called Betaal Pachisi, twenty-five tales of Betaal. The tales are set in a framework story of a king carrying a vetal or betaal (corpse animated by a ghost) to a mendicant who is waiting for him in a cremation ground. Each story ends in a riddle or a perplexing question that the king feels compelled to answer. Once he has spoken the vetal flies back to the tree from which Vikramadita has pulled him down.
Betaal Pachisi is a work in Sanskrit compiled in the 11th century by Somadeva who in turn got the material from earlier work whose authorship is not clear.
Vikram and Vetal contains four stories from this collection in COMICS format.

The stories have been illustrated by Ram Waeerkar, one of the pioneers of comics art in India.