Iljustrovano chetivo

Илюстровано четиво Iljustrovano chetivo
First issue
Country/language:	Bulgaria / Bulgarian
Publishing company:
Publishing years:	1941-1943
Issues:	113 (?)
Format:

Iljustrovano chetivo - in Cyrillic characters:"Илюстровано четиво" = "Illustrated Reading" - was a Bulgarian magazine published every thursday before the Second World War.

Issue overview

Regular series

The series contained national comics creations as well as American classical comics such as "Flash Gordon", "The Lone Ranger", "Mandrake the Magician (Cyrillic "Мандрак, Царят на магията")", "Tarzan", "Mickey Mouse". The publishing was interrupted in 1943 during the war events which stopped the comic book tradition in Bulgaria for a long time.

Published Mandrake stories

Bulgarian title	Original story title	Issues	note
"Царят на магията"	"Land of the Little People"	1941: 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,32, 33, 35, 36	missing the two first strips
"Мандрак в цирка"	"The Circus People"	1942: 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80

Reprint

In 2017 the Mandrake stories were reprinted in "С перо, четка и звезди. Другите" (S pero, chetka i zvezdi. Drugite = With pen, brush and stars. The others).

Samples

Covers with Mandrake

Mandrake appared on 4 covers in this series: Issues 18, 22, 61 and 65.

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  issue 18

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  issue 65

Pages with Mandrake

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  Issue # 17

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  Issue # 18

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  Issue # 28

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  Issue # 33

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  Issue # 35

See also

• SERDIKA - Digital platform of Sofia Library: Iljustrovano chetivo (digital issues 1-2, 10-21, 95-110 and 112-113)