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'''Mistero''', '''Mistero!''' and '''Mistero Comics''' were series of "Mandrake" published by the Italian editor Mario Nerbini from 1947 to 1950.
{{Series
Several classical comics - such as [[The Phantom]], Tim Tyler's Luck, The Lone Ranger, Brick Bradford, Secret Agent X9, Steve Canyon and of course "Mandrake" - were published in these series, each issue being consacred to only one of them.
|Title= L'Italo Americano Illustrato<br>Mistero<br>Nuovo serie - Mistero!
|image= [[Image:Mistero-01.jpg|200 px]]<br>[[Image:Mistero-17.jpg|200 px]]
|Sample= First issues
|Country= [[Image:mini_italy.gif]] Italy / Italian  
|Publisher= [[Casa Editrice Nerbini]]
|Date= 1946-1950
|Issues= 101 <small>(?)</small>
|Format= vari, b/w (color)
|}}


== Mistero ==
==Issue overview==
The first series was weekly released in 1947, in a 20, 5 x 29 cms format, each issue having only 12 pages including the cover. The covers had an attractive color presentation when the inside contents was printed in black and white.
The "Mistero" series came out in total 101 issues devided into three series:
===L'Italo Americano Illustrato / Mistero===
*Issues 1 ''(December 8, 1946)'' to 28 ''(June 15, 1947).<br>
The "Mistero" series started with the newspaper sized "L'Italo Americano Illustrato" December 8, 1946. In the beginning the weekly magazine was bilingual, with Italian and English language. From #17 ''(March 30, 1947)'' the magazine changed name to "Mistero" - ''settimanale italiano-americano di racconti illustrati''. It printed various US and Italian series as: "And so They Were... Never Married)" by Cliff Sterrett ''(14-16)'', "Belles and Wedding Bells and then Were Maried" by Cliff Sterrett ''(13-16)'', "Captain Easy" by Walter Scott ''(22-24)'', "Difendi l'amor mio" by Maria Laura Segrè & Nicolò ''(1-19)'', "Dr Wobes" by Elliot Caplin & J N McArdie ''(7-20, 24-28)'', "Il distintissmo signore di Lino" by ? ''(17)'', "It Always Happens So" by Jimmy Hatlo ''(1-16, 20-22)'', "Johnny Hazard" by Frank Robbins ''(1-27)'', "La voce del mare" by Felisari and [[Aurelio Galleppini|Galle|pini]] ''(17-22)'', "Lone Ranger" by Fran Striker & Charles Flanders ''(1-6)'', "Polly and her Pals" by Cliff Sterrett ''(1-8)'', "The Glamour Girls" by Don Flowers ''(1-4)'' and "Tillie the Toiler" by Russ Westover ''(1-13, 17-19, 21-22)''. Issues 1-16 was re-printed in a hard-cover book by Nerbini in 1978.


=== Regular series ===
===Mistero===
<gallery perrow="6">
*Issues 29 ''(August 24, 1947)'' to 47 ''(December 28, 1947)''.<br>
Issues 29 to 47 printed various US and Italian series as: "[[The Phantom]]" by [[Guido Fantoni]] ''(29-34, 38-40, 44-46)'', "Mandrake" by [[Phil Davis]] ''(35-37, 47)'', "Tim Tyler's Luck" by Lyman Young ''(41-43)'', "Inspector Wade" by Lyman Anderson ''(29-36)'', "I banditi di Green-Rock" by F Vichi ''(37-41)'' and "Johnny Hazard" by Frank Robbins ''(42-47).
 
*Issues 1 ''(January 4, 1948)'' to 6 ''(February 8, 1948)''.<br>
In 1948 the magazine restart the numbering for the series. Issues 1 to 6 printed various US and Italian series as: "[[The Phantom]]" by G Fantoni ''(4-6)'', "Mandrake" by Phil Davis ''(1-3)'', "Johnny Hazard" by Frank Robbins ''(1-2)'' and "Petrosino" by F Vichi ''(3-6)''. The Mandrake stories were re-released in the [[Albi Economici Nerbini]] series.
====Issues with Mandrake ====
<gallery>
Image:Mistero-35.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero 35|''Mistero'' #35]]
Image:Mistero-35.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero 35|''Mistero'' #35]]
Image:Mistero-36.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero 36|''Mistero'' #36]]
Image:Mistero-36.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero 36|''Mistero'' #36]]
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Image:Mistero-47.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero 47|''Mistero'' #47]]
Image:Mistero-47.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero 47|''Mistero'' #47]]
</gallery>
</gallery>
 
<gallery>
=== Second series ===
In 1948 the magazine restart the numbering for the series. The 3 first issues ended the Mandrake story "Il lupo umano". The next 3 issues printed a 3 part [[The Phantom|Phantom]] story by [[Guido Fantoni]], before the "Mistero" series ended.
 
<gallery perrow="6">
Image:Mistero-02-01.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero 1 (second series)|''Mistero'' #1]]
Image:Mistero-02-01.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero 1 (second series)|''Mistero'' #1]]
Image:Mistero-02-02.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero 2 (second series)|''Mistero'' #2]]
Image:Mistero-02-02.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero 2 (second series)|''Mistero'' #2]]
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</gallery>


The Mandrake stories from "Mistero" first and second series were re-released in 1949 by Nerbini in his [[Albi Economici Nerbini]] series.
===Nuovo serie - Mistero!===
 
*Issues 1 ''(February 15, 1948)'' to 44 ''(December 12, 1948)''.<br>
=== Third series ===
The ''New'' series printed stories with: "The Phantom" by G Fantoni ''(1-3, 7-9, 13-15, 19-21, 25-27, 31-39, 43-44)'', "Mandrake" by Phil Davis ''(4-6, edited)'', [[Roberto Lemmi]] ''(10-12)'', A Galleppini ''(16-18, 22-24, 28-30)'' and [[Franco Donatelli]] ''(40-42)'',  "Johnny Hazard" by Frank Robbins ''(1-2)'', "Petrosino" by F Vichi ''(1, 3-6, 7-9)'', "La slida di Carlos" by [[Giove Toppi|G Toppi]] ''(10-17)'', "Gli evasi delle Guyana" by G Scudellari ''(18-28)'', "Toni il saltimanco" by G Vitelli ''(29-33)'', and "Una tragedia sui ghiacci" by G Vitelli ''(33)''. The "Nuovo serie - Mistero" was re-printed by Nerbini in about 1978.
Also known as '''Mistero! - nuova series'''. A total of 44 albums were published in 1948, of which 18 were dedicated to "[[Mandrake]]". The other albums were dedicated to [[The Phantom]]. The Mandrake material was Italian.
====Issues with Mandrake ====
 
<gallery>
<gallery perrow="6">
Image:Mistero (nuova serie) 4.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero! 4 (nuova serie)|''Mistero!'' #4]]
Image:Mistero (nuova serie) 4.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero! 4 (nuova serie)|''Mistero!'' #4]]
Image:Mistero (nuova serie) 5.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero! 5 (nuova serie)|''Mistero!'' #5]]
Image:Mistero (nuova serie) 5.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero! 5 (nuova serie)|''Mistero!'' #5]]
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Image:Mistero (nuova serie) 42.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero! 42 (nuova serie)|''Mistero!'' #42]]
Image:Mistero (nuova serie) 42.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero! 42 (nuova serie)|''Mistero!'' #42]]
</gallery>
</gallery>
====Note====
All issues from the third series, "Mistero!", was reprinted in the '70s.


===Albums===
===Albums===
23 albums retaking stories already published in the first and second series were also published but in bigger format (21.5 x 31.5 cm) and without mention of the series Mistero, and they have different covers. Mandrake are to find in 8 issues:
The issues from the "Mistero" #29 to "Nuovo serie - Mistero!" #44 were reprinted into 23 albums by dr Giuseppe Cartoni (?): "Mandrake" ''(8 issues)'' , "The Phantom" ''(14 issues)'' and "Tim Tyler's Luck" ''(1 issue)''.
 
====Issues with Mandrake ====
<gallery perrow="6">
<gallery>
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-03.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 03|''Nel vortice del diavolo'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-03.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 3|''Nel vortice del diavolo'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-07.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 07|''Il lupo umano'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-07.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 7|''Il lupo umano'']]
 
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-10.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 10|''Mandrake contro il Cobra'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-10.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 10|''Mandrake contro il Cobra'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-12.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 12|''Fra uomino monstri di un monde scomparso'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-12.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 12|''Fra uomino monstri di un monde scomparso'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-14.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 14|''Il mistero della caverna rossa'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-14.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 14|''Il mistero della caverna rossa'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-16.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 16|''L'occhio magico'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-16.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 16|''L'occhio magico'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-18.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 18|''Fra i cercatori d'oro in Alaska'']]
Image:Mistero-Raccolta-18.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero Raccolta 18|''Fra i cercatori d'oro in Alaska'']]
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</gallery>
</gallery>


== Mistero comics ==
===Mistero===
In 1949 Nerbini started a new series under the title '''Mistero comics'''. Some issues was dedicated to Steve Canyon, Lone Ranger, [[The Phantom]] and  "Mandrake". The Mandrake material was Italian made by [[Guido Fantoni]] and [[Franco Donatelli]].
*Issues 48 ''(March 26, 1950)'' to 51 ''(April 16, 1950)''. The issues 45 to 47 were probably a 3-part "Mandrake" story but it was never printed.<br>
 
The series re-started in 1950 and printed, in landscape format, "The Phantom" story "Il piano 47" by G Fantoni ''(48-51, reprint from "Il giornale dell'Uomo Mascherato")''. Issues 48 to 51 was sold between the first and second "Mistero Comics" series and continued the numbering from the "Nuovo serie - Mistero!". Strangly it is printed ''Anno III'' on the covers, same as issues from 1948 !
=== Regular series ===
<gallery perrow="6">
Image:Mistero_comics-04.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero comics 4|''Mistero comics'' #4]]
Image:Mistero_comics-08.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero comics 8|''Mistero comics'' #8]]
Image:Mistero_comics-14.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero comics 14|''Mistero comics'' #14]]
</gallery>
 
=== Second series ===
For the second year of the magazine they restart the numbering for the series. Mandrake was only to find as back-up story in one issue.
 
<gallery perrow="6">
Image:Mistero_comics-02-01.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero comics 1 (nuova serie)|''Mistero comics'' #1]]
</gallery>
 
====Albums====
The Mandrake stories from the first series were in 1948 reprinted into one album:
 
<gallery perrow="6">
Image:Mistero_comics-raccolte.jpg|<div align=center>[[Mistero comics - Mandrake L'uomo del mistero|''Mandrake<br>L'uomo del mistero'']]
</gallery>


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[[Category: Publications|Mistero]]
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Revision as of 21:23, 14 January 2019

L'Italo Americano Illustrato
Mistero
Nuovo serie - Mistero!
Mistero-01.jpg
Mistero-17.jpg
First issues
Country/language: Mini italy.gif Italy / Italian
Publishing company: Casa Editrice Nerbini
Publishing years: 1946-1950
Issues: 101 (?)
Format: vari, b/w (color)


Issue overview

The "Mistero" series came out in total 101 issues devided into three series:

L'Italo Americano Illustrato / Mistero

  • Issues 1 (December 8, 1946) to 28 (June 15, 1947).

The "Mistero" series started with the newspaper sized "L'Italo Americano Illustrato" December 8, 1946. In the beginning the weekly magazine was bilingual, with Italian and English language. From #17 (March 30, 1947) the magazine changed name to "Mistero" - settimanale italiano-americano di racconti illustrati. It printed various US and Italian series as: "And so They Were... Never Married)" by Cliff Sterrett (14-16), "Belles and Wedding Bells and then Were Maried" by Cliff Sterrett (13-16), "Captain Easy" by Walter Scott (22-24), "Difendi l'amor mio" by Maria Laura Segrè & Nicolò (1-19), "Dr Wobes" by Elliot Caplin & J N McArdie (7-20, 24-28), "Il distintissmo signore di Lino" by ? (17), "It Always Happens So" by Jimmy Hatlo (1-16, 20-22), "Johnny Hazard" by Frank Robbins (1-27), "La voce del mare" by Felisari and Galle|pini (17-22), "Lone Ranger" by Fran Striker & Charles Flanders (1-6), "Polly and her Pals" by Cliff Sterrett (1-8), "The Glamour Girls" by Don Flowers (1-4) and "Tillie the Toiler" by Russ Westover (1-13, 17-19, 21-22). Issues 1-16 was re-printed in a hard-cover book by Nerbini in 1978.

Mistero

  • Issues 29 (August 24, 1947) to 47 (December 28, 1947).

Issues 29 to 47 printed various US and Italian series as: "The Phantom" by Guido Fantoni (29-34, 38-40, 44-46), "Mandrake" by Phil Davis (35-37, 47), "Tim Tyler's Luck" by Lyman Young (41-43), "Inspector Wade" by Lyman Anderson (29-36), "I banditi di Green-Rock" by F Vichi (37-41) and "Johnny Hazard" by Frank Robbins (42-47).

  • Issues 1 (January 4, 1948) to 6 (February 8, 1948).

In 1948 the magazine restart the numbering for the series. Issues 1 to 6 printed various US and Italian series as: "The Phantom" by G Fantoni (4-6), "Mandrake" by Phil Davis (1-3), "Johnny Hazard" by Frank Robbins (1-2) and "Petrosino" by F Vichi (3-6). The Mandrake stories were re-released in the Albi Economici Nerbini series.

Issues with Mandrake

Nuovo serie - Mistero!

  • Issues 1 (February 15, 1948) to 44 (December 12, 1948).

The New series printed stories with: "The Phantom" by G Fantoni (1-3, 7-9, 13-15, 19-21, 25-27, 31-39, 43-44), "Mandrake" by Phil Davis (4-6, edited), Roberto Lemmi (10-12), A Galleppini (16-18, 22-24, 28-30) and Franco Donatelli (40-42), "Johnny Hazard" by Frank Robbins (1-2), "Petrosino" by F Vichi (1, 3-6, 7-9), "La slida di Carlos" by G Toppi (10-17), "Gli evasi delle Guyana" by G Scudellari (18-28), "Toni il saltimanco" by G Vitelli (29-33), and "Una tragedia sui ghiacci" by G Vitelli (33). The "Nuovo serie - Mistero" was re-printed by Nerbini in about 1978.

Issues with Mandrake

Albums

The issues from the "Mistero" #29 to "Nuovo serie - Mistero!" #44 were reprinted into 23 albums by dr Giuseppe Cartoni (?): "Mandrake" (8 issues) , "The Phantom" (14 issues) and "Tim Tyler's Luck" (1 issue).

Issues with Mandrake

Mistero

  • Issues 48 (March 26, 1950) to 51 (April 16, 1950). The issues 45 to 47 were probably a 3-part "Mandrake" story but it was never printed.

The series re-started in 1950 and printed, in landscape format, "The Phantom" story "Il piano 47" by G Fantoni (48-51, reprint from "Il giornale dell'Uomo Mascherato"). Issues 48 to 51 was sold between the first and second "Mistero Comics" series and continued the numbering from the "Nuovo serie - Mistero!". Strangly it is printed Anno III on the covers, same as issues from 1948 !