The City Jungle
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| The City Jungle | |
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| Start date: | April 2, 1962 |
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| End date: | June 9, 1962 |
| # of strips: | 60 (10 weeks) |
| Writer: | Lee Falk |
| Artist: | Phil Davis |
| Preceded by: | "The Peddler" |
| Followed by: | "Narda's TV Show" |
"The City Jungle" is the 115th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.
Plot Summary
A large park in a big city should be a place to enjoy and relax. Instead people are beeing terrorized by muggers, even in the daytime. Mandrake suggest to the Police Chief a secret weapon to clean up the city jungle. His friend Lothar, the master of the jungle.
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- Pete, a park mugger.
- Mike, a park mugger.
- Johnny, a man in the park.
- Mike, most popular cop on the force.
Locations
- New York
Organizations
- Red Arrow Mob, toughest croed in town.
Behind the scenes
- The title for the story taken from the strip of April 3, 1962 (Beginning: The City Jungle).
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Australia
- "no title", Mandrake the Magician #30 (1964 (?))
Brazil
- "Os Assaltantes do Parque", Mandrake #75 (1962)
France
- "Panique dans la ville", Mandrake #126 (1967)
Greece
- "O Κεραυπoσ τηε Zoυγκλασ", ΒΕΛΟΣ #75 (1969)
Italy
- "Panico nella metropoli", Mandrake #20 (1962)
- "Panico nella metropoli", I Classici dell'Avventura #57 (1964)
- "Panico nella metropoli", Mandrake - New Comics Now #105 (1984)
Spain
- "Terror en el parque", Coleccion Héroes Modernos #33c (1964)
- "Terror en el parque", Coleccion Héroes Modernos Album de Rip Kirby (1964)
- "Terror en el parque", Biblioteca Eterna - Coleccion Héroes Modernos #7C (1970)
Turkey
- "Parktaki Dehşet", Mandrake #175 & #176 (1977)
- "Parktaki Dehşet", Mandrake Albüm #56 & #57 (1977)
- "Parktaki Dehşet", Mandrake Albüm #56 & #57 (1977)
- "Parktaki Dehşet", Mandrake Albüm #152 & #153
United Kingdom
- "The City Jungle", Mandrake the Magician #20 (1962)
Remake
- "Menace of the City Jungle" by Don Heck and André LeBlanc.