La Opinión

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La Opinión is an Spanish daily newspaper distributed in and around Los Angeles, California, and published since September 16, 1926 (date chosen to coincide with Mexico's Independence Day).It is the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States and, after the "Los Angeles Times", the second-most read newspaper in Los Angeles. The staff had control over both "La Prensa" and La Opinión until 1959 when La Prensa was sold. The actual publisher is the company "Impremedia" which also publishes "El Diario-La Prensa" in New York.

It published "Mandrake the Magician" Sunday strip from January 8, 1939 to October 10, 1957. These strips were released the same sundays as the American speaking versions. Some dailies were also published in 2004 (at least). Comics characters like "El Fantasma" ("The Phantom"), "Brick Bradford", "Ace Drummond", "Nancy", "Mutt and Jeff", were also published - the longest comics run of the newspaper being "Tarzan". In 1957, Mandrake has been replaced by the science-fiction series "Mundos gemelos" ("Twin Earths").


Published Sunday pages stories

# Original story title Start date End date Comment
f2 "Afternoon with Lothar" (filler page) 8 Jan 1939 8 Jan 1939
f3 "The Annoying" (filler page) 15 Jan 1939 15 Jan 1939
f4 "The Flying Pass By" (filler page) 22 Jan 1939 22 Jan 1939
f5 "The Clairvoyant" (filler page) 29 Jan 1939 29 Jan 1939
11 "City of Gold" 5 Feb 1939 6 Aug 1939
f6 "The Evil Man" (filler page) 13 Aug 1939 13 Aug 1939
f7 "Trial of Strenght" (filler page) 20 Aug 1939 20 Aug 1939
f8 "The Cure" (filler page) 27 Aug 1939 27 Aug 1939
f9 "Lothar go Fishing" (filler page) 3 Sep 1939 3 Sep 1939
f10 "The Dishonest Merchant" (filler page) 10 Sep 1939 10 Sep 1939
12 "The Ghost Bear of Glass Mountain" 17 Sep 1939 24 Dec 1939
f11 "Mandrake and Doubting Thomas" (filler page) 31 Dec 1939 31 Dec 1939
f12 "Lothar's Visit to the Dentist" (filler page) 7 Jan 1940 7 Jan 1940
f13 "Jam Session" (filler page) 14 Jan 1940 14 Jan 1940
f14 "Mandrake and the Burglar" (filler page) 21 Jan 1940 21 Jan 1940
f15 "The Music Lesson" (filler page) 28 Jan 1940 28 Jan 1940
13 "The Theatre Mysteries" 4 Feb 1940 14 Apr 1940
14 "The Flame Pearls Pt.1: Attempted Assassination" 21 Apr 1940 26 May 1940
15 "The Flame Pearls Pt.2: Magnetic Island" 2 Jun 1940 11 Aug 1940
16 "The Flame Pearls Pt.3: The Three Cows" 18 Aug 1940 22 Sep 1940
f16 "The Swordfish" (filler page) 29 Sep 1940 6 Oct 1940
17 "The Flame Pearls Pt.4: The Amazons" 13 Oct 1940 22 Dec 1940
18 "The Flame Pearls Pt.5: The Ghost Ship" 29 Dec 1940 20 Apr 1941
19 "The Flame Pearls Pt.6: The Witch of Tago" 27 Apr 1941 22 Jun 1941
20 "The Flame Pearls Pt.7: Land of the Giants" 29 Jun 1941 2 Nov 1941
21 "The Flame Pearls Pt.8: The Hungry Isles" 9 Nov 1941 12 Apr 1942
22 "Pacifica" 19 Apr 1942 1 Nov 1942
23 "Mystery of the Girls with Red Hair" 8 Nov 1942 28 Feb 1943
24 "Cloud City" 7 Mar 1943 7 Nov 1943
25 "Gloria Golden" 14 Nov 1943 23 Jan 1944
26 "The Garden of Wuzzu" 30 Jan 1944 21 May 1944
27 "The Circus Adventure" 28 May 1944 27 Aug 1944
28 "The Santa Claus Pirates" 3 Sep 1944 3 Dec 1944
29 "Fountain of Youth" 10 Dec 1944 18 Mar 1945
30 "Kingdom of the Wind" 25 Mar 1945 17 Jun 1945
31 "The Atalan Deep" 24 Jun 1945 4 Nov 1945
32 "The Twins of Karana" 11 Nov 1945 3 Mar 1946
33 "The Singing Devils" 10 Mar 1946 30 Jun 1946
34 "Roc Island" 7 Jul 1946 3 Nov 1946
35 "Kingdom of Marvel" 10 Nov 1946 7 Sep 1947
36 "The Blue Bandit" 14 Sep 1947 1 Feb 1948
37 "The Prince Who Never Smiled" 8 Feb 1948 4 Apr 1948
38 "City of Jewels Pt.1: The Polar Bear Pirates" 11 Apr 1948 20 Jun 1948
39 "City of Jewels Pt.2: The Ice Demons" 27 Jun 1948 5 Sep 1948
40 "City of Jewels Pt.3: Conclusion" 12 Sep 1948 14 Nov 1948
41 "The Raft People" 21 Nov 1948 23 Jan 1949
42 "Fear Island" 30 Jan 1949 1 May 1949
43 "The Mystery of the Big Trees" 8 May 1949 7 Aug 1949
44 "Jungle Adventure" 14 Aug 1949 4 Jun 1950
45 "The Ghost Whale" 11 Jun 1950 27 Aug 1950
46 "The Department Store Mystery" 3 Sep 1950 22 Oct 1950
47 "Curse of the Kavrun Emerald" 29 Oct 1950 14 Jan 1951
48 "The Venus Flytrap" 21 Jan 1951 11 Mar 1951
49 "Mystery of the Vanishing Homes" 18 Mar 1951 20 May 1951
50 "The Spaceship to Venus" 27 May 1951 28 Oct 1951
51 "The Caribbean Mystery" 4 Nov 1951 16 Dec 1951
52 "The Jungle Fullback" 23 Dec 1951 17 Feb 1952
53 "Taboo Land" 24 Feb 1952 6 Jul 1952
54 "The Doorway to Z" 13 Jul 1952 16 Nov 1952
55 "The Hide-out" 23 Nov 1952 18 Jan 1953
56 "The Visitors" 25 Jan 1953 7 Jun 1953
57 "The Water Champ" 14 Jun 1953 5 Jul 1953
58 "Mandrake's Magic House" 12 Jul 1953 27 Sep 1953
59 "Mandrake Plays Cupid" 4 Oct 1953 22 Nov 1953
60 "Rex (The Living Fossil)" 29 Nov 1953 4 Apr 1954
61 "The Mountain that Walked" 11 Apr 1954 23 May 1954
62 "The Tomb" 30 May 1954 18 Jul 1954
63 "The Ocean Wind" 25 Jul 1954 12 Dec 1954
64 "The Sleeping Forest" 19 Dec 1954 13 Mar 1955
65 "Isle of the Giant" 20 Mar 1955 22 May 1955
66 "Universal Love" 29 May 1955 7 Aug 1955
67 "Magnetic Island" 14 Aug 1955 20 Nov 1955
68 "The Castaway" 27 Nov 1955 12 Feb 1956
69 "City in the Deep" 19 Feb 1956 3 Jun 1956
70 "Witchmen's Peak" 10 Jun 1956 11 Nov 1956
71 "The Miss Galaxy Beauty Contest" 18 Nov 1956 9 Jun 1957
72 "The Casino" 16 Jun 1957 4 Aug 1957
73 "The Place Called X" 11 Aug 1957 incomplete, ending with the 27 Oct 1957 sunday page


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