The Mysterious Birds
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| The Mysterious Birds | |
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| Start date: | February 11th, 1979 |
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| End date: | June 17th, 1979 |
| # of strips: | 19 (19 weeks) |
| Writer: | Lee Falk |
| Artist: | Fred Fredericks |
| Preceded by: | "Mandrake and Ali-Petro" |
| Followed by: | "The Sky Pirates" |
"The Mysterious Birds" is the 139th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.
Plot Summary
A pilote, forced of course by a storm, takes aerial photos of an unknown vally. He submits them to the famed explrore and anthropologist Lenore, Mandrake's sister. Excited about the opportunity to explore the ruins of an unknown civilization Lenore heading the jungle. A few days after her injured pilot talking about crazy birds and says Lenore have disappered..
Appearances
Behind the scenes
- At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "The Mysterious Birds", which is lifted from the plot.
Signifiant covers
India
Italy
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
France
- "Les oiseaux mystérieux", Mandrake #450 (1980)
India
- "The Mystery of the Unknown Valley", Indrajal Comics #344 (1980)
Italy
- "Gli uccelli misteriosi", Mandrake #95 (1980)
- "Gli uccelli misteriosi", Mandrake - New Comics Now #399 (1997)
Turkey
- "Kuşların Esrarı", Mandrake Albüm #84 #85
- "Esrarengiz Kuşlar", Mandrake #20
- "Esrarengiz Kuşlar", Mandrake Süper Albüm #5
- "Esrarengiz Kuşlar", Mandrake Süper Albüm #42 #43