Mandrake Marries Narda

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Mandrake Marries Narda
 
Start date: October 5th, 1997
End date: November 22nd, 1998
# of strips: 60
Writer: Lee Falk
Artist: Fred Fredericks
Preceded by: "Speedy"
Followed by: "The Cloud"

"Mandrake Marries Narda" is the 176th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.

Plot Summary

This story retelling the story of Mandrake. As war rages in Tibet the Duke brings his daughter, Princess Eleanora to safety in College of Magic. Some years after grandmaster Theron marries Eleanora, sadly she died shortly after giving birth to Mandrake.

Growing up in the College the young Mandrake learning various levels of magic, and from his father the highest art - hypnotic viritual reality. From his father he also learn the secrets of the amazing crystal cube. And he found that Theron himself had many secrets, he was about 385 or 400 years old and have been married 20 or 30 times. Before the beautiful Eleanora he was married with a witch, who gave birth to his son and Mandrake's big brother - Luciphor. She hated being a mother and then she hated Theron and the baby, so she fled leaving the baby at CM.

Luciphor was a angry boy and when Mandrake was born he became jealous and did try to kill his baby brother. The Council of Elders and Theron put Luciphor into a cell until he confess his crime, and after two years he was released and continued his studies.

When Mandrake was a teenager he fell in love with Allena, a girl in his class. They became sweethearts, but Allena were attracted by the now 25 years old instructor Luciphor at the same time. One day Luciphor tried to steal the college treasure, when Mandrake tried to stop him Luciphor once again tried to kill Mandrake. Grandmaster Theron turned up and managed to save Mandrake - blazing with fire. Luciphor's face were injured by the fire and Theron had to expelled him from the CM as punishment for his horrible crime.

When Mandrake was 21 it was time for the graduation day, and Mandrake had to choose whether to stay at Cm as a teacher or go out into the great outside world. Aleena had not passed all the courses but


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One-time characters

  • Eric, at CM

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Behind the scenes

  • The title for the story is lifted from the plot.
  • Theron have been married 20 or 30 times..

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications: