Mandrake the Magician 2 (Miller)

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Mandrake the Magician #2
Illustrated Comic
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Cover artist: unknown
Country/language: Mini uk.gif United Kingdom / English
Format: 18.5 × 24.5 cm
Pages: 68 pgs, b/w
Publishing date: 1959
Editor: unknown
Publishing company: L. Miller & Son
Preceded by: issue 1
Followed by: issue 3


Contents

Mandrake stories

Note

Publishing date

This issue was released without a publishing date on the cover or inside, but is likely released about February 1959.

The L. Miller triangle

When the son (Arnold Miller) left his fathers company in 1959 Leonard Miller changed the company name from "L. Miller & Son" to "L. Miller & Co". The 291 issues (from the week ending March 14, 1959) of "Marvelman" and "Young Marvelman" both have "L. Miller & Son" and the 294 issues (from the week ending April 4, 1959) have "L. Miller & Co".

Stamps

The Mandrake issue has an ad from Broadway Approvals for start packages for collecting stamps. The same ad is used in other comics like: "Western Kid" #17, "Marvelman Family" #23 (at GCD #30 is said issued in November 1959). Broadway Approvals has the adress: 486 Old Kent Rd. London, S.E.I. The lot W1 have:

  • a Large Stamp Album
  • Imported collection of stamps, 57 different: Monaco - Grace Kelly Wedding, French Antartica - First stamp from fantastic new country!, China - Great Wall Airmail, IT. Somalia - Flowers, Ethopia - Red X, Estonia - Nazi Dorpat, Red China - Imperf.
  • the "Midget Encyclopædia of stamps"
  • Australia - 1956 Olympic Seals

The OL stamps came in 4 colors: blue, red, green and purple. Other stamps depicted in the ad: