Mandrake the Magician (King)

    (King, 1966-1968)
™ and ©1967 King Features Syndicate

Mandrake the Magician debuted as a Sunday newspaper strip in the 1930s, the creation of Lee Falk, who also brought The Phantom to life. Mandrake is a stage magician, complete with top hat and cape, who can control people’s minds with hypnotic gestures. Together with his gigantic African servant Lothar (often seen wearing a fez and leopard-skin cummerbund), they tackled all kinds of criminals, spies, pirates, and other menaces. If this sounds clichéd, it’s not Mandrake’s fault; he was the first crime-fighting magician in the comics, and all the imitations that followed were based on his huge popularity.

Comic books often reprinted complete Mandrake adventures after they had been serialized in Sunday newspaper strips. In the 1960s, however, King Comics published this series of new Mandrake adventures, credited to original writer Falk.
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  • 1
    #1
    Sep 1966
    Cover: $0.12
    W: Dick Wood  ·  A: Don Heck, Bill Lignante, Werner Roth, Fred Fredericks
    Phantom back-up story
    2 copies from $10.00
  • 2
    #2
    Nov 1966
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    W: Dick Wood  ·  A: Andre LeBlanc, Bill Lignante
    2 copies from $10.00
  • 3
    #3
    Jan 1967
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    W: Dick Wood  ·  A: Andre LeBlanc, Bill Lignante
    Phantom back-up
    2 copies from $8.50
  • 4
    #4
    Mar 1967
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    W: Gary Poole, Dick Wood  ·  A: Andre LeBlanc, Bill Lignante
    Girl Phantom back-up
    2 copies from $5.95
  • 5
    #5
    May 1967
    Cover: $0.12
    W: Gary Poole, Paul Norris  ·  A: Ray Bailey, Paul Norris
    Flying saucer story
    11 copies from $3.99
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    #6
    Jul 1967
    Cover: $0.12
    W: Gary Poole, Paul Norris  ·  A: Ray Bailey, Paul Norris
    5 copies from $3.84
  • 8
    #8
    Sep 1967
    Cover: $0.12
    W: Giovanni Fiorentini, Ramond Marais  ·  A: Salvatore Stizza, Jeff Jones
    1 copy for $2.87