Las Grandes Aventuras: Merlin el Mago Moderno 1
| Un Incendio en el Circo con Merlín el Mago Moderno | |
 Cover artist: unknown | |
| Country/language: |  Spain / Spanish
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| Format: | 21 x 32 cm |
| Pages: | 16 pgs, b/w |
| Publishing date: | 1942 |
| Editor: | unknown |
| Publishing company: | Hispano Americana |
| Preceded by: | Agente Secreto X-9 Oro Negro |
| Followed by: | Merlin el Mago Moderno #2 |
First Mandrake issue in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series.
Contents
Mandrake stories
- "Un Incendio en el Circo" ("The Circus People") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
Back cover
Starting in 1941 the back covers of issues from the "Las Grandes Aventuras" and the "Los Albumes Preferidos por la Juventud" (Colleción "Audaz" & Aventuras y Misterio) printed various collector cards, which could be glued into different collecting albums. These folded "Álbumes Centella" sheets could be ordered free and measured 17,5x25 cm.
back cover
Álbumes Centella #12
inside
- Sticker: Serie 03-??: ?
- Sticker: Serie 12-09: Pedro Telmo Zarraonandía Montoya, Atlético de Bilbao (squad of 1941-42)
- Sticker: Serie 13-11: Rafael Berrocal Buzac, C. de F. Sevilla (squad of 1941-42)
- Coupon to order collecting albums for the stickers (note: only for the series 1, 5, 10 and 11)
Note
The "Las Grandes Aventuras" (or other series by Hispano Americana) have no numbering or date printed on the cover or inside, thus making it difficult to make an index in chronological order. Fortunately, most of the back covers from the series "Las Grandes Aventuras" and "Los Albumes Preferidos por la Juventud" series (Colleción "Audaz" & Aventuras y Misterio) have a back-list and an ad for the next issue. Sometime also the current or next issue for the other series.
Comparing the back covers of the first print issues prior the first Mandrake issue it is possible to make a list which shows that the first Mandrake issue was #35 in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series, most likely published in July 1942.
| (Issue) | Year | Character | Title | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | 1941 | Historia de Colón | "El Mar Tenebroso" | |
| (2) | 1941 | El Hombre Enmascarado | "El Hombre Enmascarado" | |
| (3) | 1941 | El Hombre Enmascarado | "La Venganza de Singh" | |
| (4) | 1941 | Historia de Pizarro | "Sangre y Oro en el Trópico" | |
| (5) | 1941 | El Hombre Enmascarado | "El Reino Submarino" | |
| (6) | 1941 | Agente Secreto X-9 | "La Banda Siniestra" | |
| (7) | 1941 | El Hombre Enmascarado | "El Cementerio de las Ballenas" | |
| (8) | 1941 | El Hombre Enmascarado | "El Secreto del Hombre Enmascarado" | |
| (9) | 1941 | Agente Secreto X-9 | "El Reloj Infernal" | |
| (10) | 1941 | El Hombre Enmascarado | "La Ley de la Selva" | |
| (11) | 1941 | El Hombre Enmascarado | "Las Mujeres Piratas" | |
| (12) | 1941 | Agente Secreto X-9 | "El Avión Fantasma" | |
| (13) | 1941 | El Hombre Enmascarado | "Los Buscadores de Diamantes" | |
| (14) | 1941 | El Hombre Enmascarado | "El Secuestro de Diana Palmer" | |
| (15) | 1941 | Agente Secreto X-9 | "Las Joyas Egipcias" | |
| (16) | 1941 | El Hombre Enmascarado | "El Protegido del Hombre Enmascarado" | |
| (17) | 1941 | El Hombre Enmascarado | "El Hombre Enmascarado en Londres" | |
| (18) | 1941 | Don Quijote | "Don Quijote de la Mancha", I | |
| (19) | 1941 | Don Quijote | "Don Quijote de la Mancha", II | |
| (20) | 1941 | Frank Buk | "Cazando Fieras Vivas" | "Popeye y las Espinacas" was published at the same time, with an ad for the 1942 Alamanques Jorge y Fernando and Juan Centilla |
| (21) | 1941 | Frank Buk | "Una Caceria en la Selva" | "Pepín y Rufo en el Mar de los Sargazos" was published at the same time, with an ad for 1942 issues with Jorge y Fernando and Juan Centilla |
| (22) | 194? | Frank Buk | "El Tigre del Valle Perdido" | |
| (23) | 1942 | Tarzán | "El Hombre Mono" | |
| (24) | 1942 | Frank Buk | "Los Peligros de la Selva" | |
| (25) | 1942 | Tarzán | "La Hija del Sol" | |
| (26) | 1942 | Frank Buk | "El Maharaja del Nepal" | |
| (27) | 1942 | Historia de Hernán Cortés | "El Pais de los Tesoro" | |
| (28) | 1942 | Tarzán | "En el Pais de los Vikingios" | |
| (29) | 1942 | Ted Towers | "Tumba el Elefante Gigante" | |
| (30) | 1942 | Tarzán | "Y los Leones" | |
| (31) | 1942 | - | "Una Gran Hazaña" | |
| (32) | 1942 | Frank Buk | "Desafiando el Peligro" | |
| (33) | 1942 | Tarzán | "El Invencible" | |
| (34) | 1942 | Agente Secreto X-9 | "Oro Negro" |