Mandrake and the Haunted House

Mandrake and the Haunted House
Start date:	May 16th, 1938
End date:	July 9th, 1938
# of strips:	48 (8 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"Sonny the Child Movie Star"
Followed by:	"Blozz the Champion"

"Mandrake and the Haunted House" is the 13th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

A young lady crashed into Mandrake's house on a horse. Ellen has inherited the Willows from her her grandfather, but the house is haunted.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar

One-time characters

• Ellen
• Don, Ellen's fiancé.
• Lily Bell, Ellen's housekeeper.
• Mrs. Woods, previous owner of the Willows.

Locations

• New York (?)
  • Willows at Barker Road

Behind the scenes

Title

• The title for the story is taken from the plot.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Brazil

• "A Casa Mal-Assombrada", Almanaque do Mandrake (1962)
• "O Casarão Assombrado", Mandrake, o Mágico #3 (1970)
• "A Herança", Mandrake #241 (1976)
• "A Herdeira", Mandrake Coleção #8 (1990)

Canada

• (no given title), Classic Adventure Strips #6 (1986)

Denmark

• "Mandrake og det forheksede hus", Seriebiblioteket #1 (1976)

France

• "L'homme panthère",Spécial Mandrake #44 (1967)

Italy

• "L'uomo dal viso pantera", L'Avventuroso #311 - #318 (1940)
• "L'uomo dal muso di pantera", Mandrake #27 (1948)
• "L'uomo pantera", Mandrake #37 (1963)
• "L'uomo pantera", Special Mandrake #174 (1966)
• "L'uomo pantera", Mandrake (1972)
• "La casa stregata", Mandrake (Garzanti) (1972)
• "no title", L'olimpo dei fumetti #14 (1973)
• "La casa degli spettri", Mandrake #8 (Comics Stars in the World 1976)
• "La casa degli spettri", Mandrake - New Comics Now #118 (1984)
• "La casa degli spettri", Mandrake 12 (Comic Art) (1992)
• "La casa degli spettri", Mandrake il mago Volume 2 (2015)

French Polynesia

• "La casa degli spettri", Mandrake #8 (Comics Stars in the World 1976) note: Italian text.

New Zealand

• "Mandrake and the Haunted House", Mandrake the Magician #64 (1954)

Norway

• "no title", Seriebiblioteket #1 (1976)

Portugal

• "Os Falsos Fantasmas", Ciclone #82 (196?)

Spain

• "La casa embrujada", Mandrake el mago (1981)
• "La casa de los espectros", Grandes Clásicos de los Comics del Pasado #33 - Mandrake #9 (1986)

Sweden

• no title, Seriebiblioteket #1 (1976)

Turkey

• "Tekinsiz Evin Esrarı", 1001 Roman - Özel Sayı #10 (1940)

USA

• "no title", Feature Book #19 (1946)
• "Mandrake and the Haunted House", The Golden Age of the Comics #7 (1970)
• "Mandrake in Hollywood", The Official Mandrake the Magician #2 – The Official Mandrake the Magician #3 (1988)
• "no title", Feature Books #19 (1993, reprint)
• "Mandrake and the Haunted House", Comics Revue #397-398 – #403-404 (2019)

Yugoslavia

• "Зачарана кућа" (romanized as "Začarana kuća"), Politikin Zabavnik #1167 (1974)