The Crater World

The Crater World
Start date:	June 7th, 1982
End date:	October 16th, 1982
# of strips:	114 (19 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Fred Fredericks
Preceded by:	"Haunted Road"
Followed by:	"The Evil Spirit of the East Wind"

"The Crater World" is the 179th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.

Plot Summary

Leaving the witch traveling to the town Mandrake and Lothar comming to a vulcano. Inside they discovers a strange world where plants and insects are gigantic, while mammals and humans is small. The opposite of the normal world.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar

One-time characters

• Dun Dum, leader of the small people inside the vulcano.

Locations

• The landscape near the College of Magic .

Behind the scenes

• The title for the story is lifted from the plot.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Brazil

• "O Vulcão da Morte", Almanaque do Mandrake #13 (1983)

India

• "The Scary Wonderland", Indrajal Comics Vol. 21 No. 42 (1984)

Italy

• "La valle dei mostri", Mandrake - New Comics Now #107 (1984)

Spain

• "El Extraño Mundo", Mandrake #30 (1998)

Turkey

• "Garip Yolculuk", Mandrake Albüm #229 & #230
• "Garip Yolculuk", Mandrake Süper Albüm #22 #23
• "Garip Yolculuk", Mandrake Süper Albüm #2

Yugoslavia

• "Pakleni krater" and "U zemlji džinova", Super EKS Almanah #61 and #62 (1984 and 1985)