(November 1966)
King Features,
1966 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1966-09-02
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- King Features Syndicate
- Brand
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King Comics
- Editing
- Bill Harris
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
His Magic Is Powerless to Save Mandrake as He Plunges toward Certain Death!
Mandrake the Magician / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Reprints
-
in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #74, #142 ([circa 1975 - 1976]), #173 ([circa 1980 - 1981]) -
in Mandrake the Magician: The Complete Series: The King Years (Hermes Press, 2016 series) #1 ([February] 2016)
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Specter from Space
Mandrake the Magician / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Mandrake; Lothar
- Synopsis
- Visitors from another world are coming to earth, and announce their friendly intentions. Governments around the world acknowledge them and search through the skies to find them, to no avail. The visitors are microscopic.
- Reprints
-
in Indrajal Comics (Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1964 series) #70 -
in Mandrake (Romanforlaget, 1967 series) #2/1967 (1967) - in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #173 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Mandrake the Magician: The Complete Series: The King Years (Hermes Press, 2016 series) #1 ([February] 2016)
-
Indexer Notes
Adaptation of newspaper strip stories. Scripting credit from Martin O'Hearn.
The Pirate Raiders
The Phantom / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Reprints
- in Comic Cartoon Annual (Purnell, 1967 ? series) #[1968] (1967)
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #173 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in The Phantom: The Complete Series: The King Years (Hermes Press, 2012 series) ([September] 2012)
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Indexer Notes
At http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-trapani-ghost-on-ghost-who-walk…, script-spotter Martin O'Hearn attributes the script to Dick Wood.
[no title indexed]
Mandrake's Mail / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from Erle Van deBogart, Bob Jud, Pat Mecking, Lou Lamb, Ray Osrin.
The Phantom Casino
Mandrake the Magician / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Lucky Larry Yates; Mandrake; Lothar; Police Chief
- Synopsis
- Lucky Larry builds a Casino on a blimp, and to avoid the laws against it he floats it 3 miles up before he allows gambling. Mandrake gets the pilot to land the blimp unbeknownst to Larry so he can be arrested for running an illegal casino.
- Reprints
- in Indrajal Comics (Bennett, Coleman & Co., 1964 series) #70
- in Sinister Tales (Alan Class, 1964 series) #173 ([circa 1980 - 1981])
- in Mandrake the Magician: The Complete Series: The King Years (Hermes Press, 2016 series) #1 ([February] 2016)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
His Magic Is Powerless to Save Mandrake as He Plunges toward Certain Death!
Mandrake the Magician -
1.
Specter from Space
Mandrake the Magician -
2.
The Pirate Raiders
The Phantom -
3.
[no title indexed]
Mandrake's Mail -
4.
The Phantom Casino
Mandrake the Magician
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- JW "David" Asher
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Gregory Fischer
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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