Spotlight on Lee Falk - The latest scripts for Mandrake the Magician and the Phantom
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Timeline 1998-1999: Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom Stories
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MD | Big Jake & Co | Mandrake's Wedding at Xanadu | Aliens | The Fisherman | The Secret Mission | Siege at Xanadu | The Haunted Ballroom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MS | Mandrake Marries Narda | The Cloud | The Bullies | The Invisible Person | Rumble on the Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PD | Joomkar's Crown | The Crater | The Dakk Pirates | The Albee | Terror at the Opera | The Ghost Wall | The Halloween Kidnappers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PS | Waterman | The Vanished Village | The Floradon Mystery | The Kidnappers | The Wharf Rats | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
colors | parts based on previous stories written by Lee Falk | based on previous stories written by Lee Falk | written /finished by Elizabeth Falk |
Dailies - Mandrake the Magician
Sundays - Mandrake the Magician
What is most striking about the Sunday stories is that the three stories "The Cloud", "The Bullies" and "The Invisible Person" are reuses of three daily stories from 1983-1984. Most of the art (and text) are actually identical. In 1972, Fred Fredericks said that he drew the Sunday strips ten weeks in advance. If it was still like that in 1998, he should have received a script from Lee Falk for the story after "Mandrake Marries Narda" sometime before the beginning of September 1998. But it seems he never got any more scripts from Lee Falk for the Sundays.