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Super Albo
Special Mandrake
Super Albo 001.jpg
First issue
Country/language: Mini italy.gif Italy / Italian
Publishing company: Edizioni Fratelli Spada
Publishing years: 1962–1967
Issues: 157 + 37
Format: 17×24 cm,
b/w & color


Super Albo was a series of Mandrake comic books published by the Italian publisher Fratelli Spada from January 1962 to February 1967.

Issue overview

Until the Super Albo issue 157, only the even numbered issues were devoted to "Mandrake the Magician", and the uneven numbered issues were devoted to "The Phantom". After issue 157, the series was split into two separate parts : Super Albo which continued printing only "The Phantom", while "Mandrake" was continued in a new series entitled Special Mandrake.

Almost all issues featured reprints of American newspapers stories, mainly daily stories. The format size was 17 × 24 cm with 64 or 80 pages. The issues also contained reprints of other comic like "Tim Tyler's Luck", "Rip Kirby" and so on.

Super Albo

Issues with Mandrake

Up to issue 24 the stories were "redrawn" (16, 18, 20, 22 and 48) and "Lucidanto" (polished) by Domenico Mirabella.

1962
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
 
1963
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
 
1964
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118
1965 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157  

Albums

Unsold copies of the first series were later glued together and given new covers and sold as Super Albo Raccolta.

Special Mandrake