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===History===
A '''cameo''' role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance of a known person, sometimes appearing as themselves. An '''easter egg''' is an in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg).  
Several of [[Lee Falk]]'s manuscripts contain elements that fall under the designations Easter Eggs or Cameos. Like names of characters whose are borrowed from people in the circle around Lee Falk, either directly or slightly rewritten. Occasionally one can find place and street names in stories that are clearly related to where Lee Falk stayed when the story was written.


Now and then also the artists have added easter eggs and cameos into some panels.
==In Mandrake stories==
Several of [[Lee Falk]]'s manuscripts contain elements that fall under the designations Easter Eggs or Cameos. Like names of characters whose are borrowed from people in the circle around Lee Falk, either directly or slightly rewritten. Occasionally one can find place and street names in stories that are clearly related to where Lee Falk stayed when the story was written. Now and then also the artists have added easter eggs and cameos into some panels.


==Easter Eggs in Mandrake stories==
===Easter Eggs===
An '''easter egg''' is an in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg).
====by Lee Falk====
===by Lee Falk===
*[[Real Life References - Locations]]
*[[Real Life References - Locations]]
===by Fred Fredericks===
====by Fred Fredericks====
*[[39013|Prison Number 39013]]
*[[39013|Prison Number 39013]]
*[[The Phantom]]
*[[The Phantom]]
 
====by [[Fratelli Spada]] artists====
===by [[Fratelli Spada]] artists===
*[[Fratelli Spada stories - Easter Eggs]]
*[[Fratelli Spada stories - Easter Eggs]]


==Cameos in Mandrake stories==
===Cameos===
A '''cameo''' role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance of a known person, sometimes appearing as themselves.
====by Lee Falk====
===by Lee Falk===
*[[Eleanor Allina Epstein]], mother of Lee Falk.
*[[Eleanor Allina Epstein]], mother of Lee Falk.
*[[Louise Falk]], first wife of [[Lee Falk]].
*[[Louise Falk]], first wife of [[Lee Falk]].
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*[[Conley Falk]], son of Lee Falk.
*[[Conley Falk]], son of Lee Falk.
*[[Elizabeth Moxley]], third wife of Lee Falk.
*[[Elizabeth Moxley]], third wife of Lee Falk.
*[[The Phantom|The Phantom/Kit Walker]], created by Lee Falk and Ray Moore.
*[[The Phantom|The Phantom/Kit Walker]], created by Lee Falk and Ray Moore.
===by Fred Fredericks===
====by Fred Fredericks====
*[[Ed Rhoades]], longtime phan of the Phantom.
*[[Ed Rhoades]], longtime phan of the Phantom.
==Appearances in other comics==
===by Randolp Holmes===
*In the story "And here he is.. The artist himself" by Randolp Holmes ''(Death Rattle #2 from Kitchen Sink)'' Lothar turns up. The artist said that he hired Lothar when the old Mandrake strip folded.


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Revision as of 19:13, 25 January 2020

A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance of a known person, sometimes appearing as themselves. An easter egg is an in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg).

In Mandrake stories

Several of Lee Falk's manuscripts contain elements that fall under the designations Easter Eggs or Cameos. Like names of characters whose are borrowed from people in the circle around Lee Falk, either directly or slightly rewritten. Occasionally one can find place and street names in stories that are clearly related to where Lee Falk stayed when the story was written. Now and then also the artists have added easter eggs and cameos into some panels.

Easter Eggs

by Lee Falk

by Fred Fredericks

by Fratelli Spada artists

Cameos

by Lee Falk

by Fred Fredericks

Appearances in other comics

by Randolp Holmes

  • In the story "And here he is.. The artist himself" by Randolp Holmes (Death Rattle #2 from Kitchen Sink) Lothar turns up. The artist said that he hired Lothar when the old Mandrake strip folded.