Mandrake - Il Vascello

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Il Vascello - Mandrake was the regular series of Mandrake comic books published by the Italian publisher Fratelli Spada. Being the direct continuation of a similar series previously released by the (La Freccia) publications, it was also known as Il Vascello and Mandrake with a total of 474 issues released from 1962 to 1980. Although it was essentially the same publication for the entire run, it was relaunched with restarted numbering several times, dividing the run into four distinctive series.

History

First series (1962-1967)

The first issue is dated January 5, 1962 and the last (#140) February 19, 1967. The format was 15 × 21.5 cm for generally 32 pages but some issues had 80 pages. The title changed from #27 to Albi de Il Vascello - Mandrake. The material was mainly composed of stories drawn by Italian artists but American reprinted material was also published. A large part of the painted color covers are works by Mario Caria.

Issue overview

1962 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
1963 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
1964 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78
1965 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104
1966 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139
1967 140

Second series (1967-1971)

The first issue of this specific is dated March 4, 1967. The title was still Albi del Il Vascello - Mandrake and the same format size was kept, but the numbering restarted from #1. The number of pages was also 32 until issue #100. It increased to 48 pages from issue #100 to 110, before having 64 pages for the rest of the series. The series ended with the issue #206 dated April 18, 1971. Once again, it was mainly composed of stories drawn by Italian artists with some stories already published in the previous series. The covers sometimes represented others comic characters than the Mandrake and were less often painted. Unsold copies were later glued together and given new covers and sold as Raccolta Mandrake.

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Third series (1971-1972)

Beginning on May 9, 1971 with an issue numbered #1, it stopped on March 15, 1972 with the issue #32. This time the format size was reduced.

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Fourth series (1972-1980)

On April 16, 1972, this new start was founded on a larger format size and was entitled Albi del Il Vascello – Serie Cronologica – Mandrake, the word Mandrake being written predominantly as the main title. The Serie Cronologica issues 1-8 had a dual numbering; Serie Cronologica #1 was also Mandrake #33, continuing the numbering of the previous third series.

Until issue Serie Cronologica #40, a separate folded supplement of 8 pages was included which reproduced the Sunday stories in chronological order. These inserts were later glued together to form the four books named L'epoca d'oro di Mandrake. From issue 77 the serie was renamed to Albi del Vascello - Mandrake and the series continued until #96 on January 1, 1980.

Unsold copies were later glued together and given new covers and sold as Raccolta Super Mandrake.