Pacific Stars & Stripes

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The Pacific Stars & Stripes, established in 1945, was a specific version of the national "Stars & Stripes" newspaper released in several editions for troops operating in various U.S. military theaters. Until 1963, it was printed in Tokyo, Japan, especially for the U.S. troops stationed in the country after the World War II, then later in Washington, District of Columbia (USA) until 1998.

As a full page, and a delay of several weeks when compared to the original american newspapers, and from - at least - 1965 to 1971 (however it maybe already published from 1956 but it remains to verify), "Mandrake the Magician" Sunday strip have been published in the "Pacific Stars & Stripes" in a color Sunday extra comics section (which was published as soon as 1945 but only in black and white).

In the other comics, featured each sunday, were "Bringing Up Father", "Little Abner", "Flash Gordon", "Buz Sawyer", "Mr. Abernathy", "The Lone Ranger", "Mickey Mouse" , "Blondie", "Prince Valiant" and "Snuffy Smith" when the black and white daily edition only had, as usual comics, daily strips of "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon" - war heroes -"Dick Tracy", "Blondie"and "Li'l Abner". Towards the end of the "Pacific Stars & Stripes" publishing, comics were oriented to funnier comics material.

==Published stories== ("PS&S"= "Pacific Stars & Stripes")

# Original story title Original story start Original story date Start in "PS&S" End in "PS&S" Comment
96 "The Traveller's Tale" 21 Mar 1965 22 Aug 1965 ? 10 Oct 1965 first known date in "PS&S" 4 July, 1965 (Original Sunday page 16 May, 1965)
97 "The Cobra Returns" 29 Aug 1965 3 Apr 1966 17 Oct 1965 22 May 1966
98 "The Underworld vs. Inter-Intel" 10 Apr 1966 7 Aug 1966 29 May 1966 25 Sep 1966
99 "The Astro Pirates" 14 Aug 1966 25 Dec 1966 2 Oct 1966 12 Feb 1967
100 "The Blackout Caper" 1 Jan 1967 23 Apr 1967 19 Feb 1967 11 June 1967
101 "The Meeting of Mandrake and Lothar" 30 Apr 1967 24 Sep 1967 18 June 1967 12 Nov 1967
102 "The Game of Chance" 1 Oct 1967 11 Feb 1968 19 Nov 1967 31 Mar 1968
103 "Invasion of the Babu" 18 Feb 1968 21 Jul 1968 7 Apr 1968 8 Sep 1968
104 "Second Chance" 28 Jul 1968 3 Nov 1968 15 Sep 1968 22 Dec 1968
105 "The All or Nothing Hunt" 10 Nov 1968 30 Mar 1969 29 Dec 1968 18 May 1969
106 "The Galactic Rumble" 6 Apr 1969 7 Sep 1969 25 May 1969 26 Oct 1969
107 "The Invaders" 14 Sep 1969 11 Jan 1970 2 Nov 1969 1 Mar 1970
108 "The 3D Monster" 18 Jan 1970 19 Apr 1970 8 Mar 1970 7 Jun 1970
109 "The Solar Wind" 26 Apr 1970 23 Aug 1970 14 Jun 1970 11 Oct 1970
110 "The Mystery" 30 Aug 1970 3 Jan 1971 18 Oct 1970 ? last known date in "PS&S" 27 Dec, 1971 (Original Sunday page 8 Nov, 1970)


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