Afacan

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Afacan
Afacan-3-001.jpg
First issue, third series
Country/language: Mini turkey.gif Turkey / Turkish
Publishing company: Mehmet Faruk/
Ömer Lütfi Tarhan
Publishing years: 1932-1934/
1934-1940/
1942-1943
Issues: 110/
309/
42
Format: ?×? cm , b/w and color


History

The first issue (July 30th, 1942) of the third Afacan series printed Mandrake began to be featured on the cover. From issue 27 Mandrake was shifted onto the b&w interior pages. By this time, the dire economic situation of the war-time era was apparently taking its toll on Afacan as paper and printing quality began to detoriate. Mandrake would be missing in # 37 and when he resumed in the next issue, the image quality was at an all-time low. With # 39, Afacan began to print Mandrake in a traced form. And that would not last long either as the werewolf adventure was left incomplete on # 40. Afacan, without Mandrake, survived for two more issues only.

Mandrake stories in Afacan

Title US Title Issues Comment
"Altın Şehirde" "City of Gold" 1942: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
"Fuarda" "The Evil Man" 22
"Fuarda" "Trial of Strenght" 23
"Fuarda" "The Cure" 1943: 24
"Fuarda" "Lothar go Fishing" 25
"no title" "The Dishonest Merchant" 26
"Hırsızlar Peşinde "Saki, the Clay Camel" 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 US strips from Sept 16, missing the 4 last strips and some strips are cencored
"no title" "The Werewolf" 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40