Las Grandes Aventuras: Merlin el Mago Moderno 2
| Paulo, el Principe Extravagante con Merlín, el Rey de la Magia | |
 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: | Merlin #1 |
| Followed by: | Merlin #3 |
Paulo, el Principe Extravagante con Merlín, el Rey de la Magia is the second Mandrake issue in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series.
Contents
Mandrake stories
- "Paulo, el Principe Extravagante" ("Prince Paulo the Tyrant") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
Note
This story was first printed in the magazine Aventurero, issues 124 to 148 (1937-1938). It appears that an artist has used the images from the Aventurero pages to create a black and white re-inked version adapted to the landscape format.
Back cover
Starting in 1942 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
variant
1983 reprint
- Sticker: Serie 03-13: El Repulse
- Sticker: Serie 04-02: Delio Rodríguez Barros, professional road racing cyclist and sprinter
- Sticker: Serie 12-10: Francisco Gárate Bergareche, Atlético de Bilbao (squad of 1941-42)
- Sticker: Serie 19-11: Emilio García Martínez, C. de F. Ovieda (squad of 1941-42)
In 1983 Joaquín Esteve edited in collaboration with "Club Amigos de la Historieta" a facsimile reprint of this issue. The back cover is with only one printing plate for prussian blue. The title for the following issue is missing in the facsimile reprint.
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 this Mandrake issue it is possible to make a list which shows that the first Mandrake issue was #39 in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series, most likely published in August/September 1942.