Witchmen's Peak

Witchmen's Peak
Start date:	June 10, 1956
End date:	November 11, 1956
# of strips:	23 (23 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"City in the Deep"
Followed by:	"The Miss Galaxy Beauty Contest"

"Witchmen's Peak" is the 70th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

On safari in Africa Lenore hears a strange tale about the Witchmen's Peak, the place where the wich doctors are trained in black magic. And behind every throne in the jungle stands a witchman, the real power. Lenore writes in a letter a to her brother that she intends to explore the mysterious Witchmen's Peak. The letter is a month old Mandrake has not heard from her afterwards and think something must have happened.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar, hereditary King of the mighty Federated Tribes.
• Narda, In US only.
• Lenore

One-time characters

• A trader
• Taji, the grand witchman.

Locations

• US
• Africa
  • Witchmen's Peak

Behind the scenes

• The title for the story is given in the strip of June 3, 1956 (Next Week: "Witchmen's Peak").
• Interesting the name Witchmen's Peak was used again in a 1971 Sunday story for The Phantom --> PhantomWiki: The Tale of the Gooley-Gooley Witch, see also PhantomWiki: Witchmen's Peak

Signifiant covers

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  Brazil

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  Portugal

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Brazil

• "no title", Mandrake #25 (1957)

France

• "Le royaume des sorciers", Mandrake #3 (1962)
• "Le royaume des sorciers", Mandrake #180 (1968)
• "Le royaume des sorciers", Mandrake #262 (1970)

Italy

• "Il picco degli stregani", Il Vascello #40 (1960)
• "Il picco degli stregoni", I Classici dell'Avventura #11 (1962)
• "no title", Mandrake #130 (1969)
• "Il picco degli stregoni", Mandrake - New Comics Now #274 (1991)

Norway

• "Heksetoppen", Fantomet #24 (1998)

Portugal

• "O Monte Sagrado", Condor Popular Vol. 17 N.° 10 (1958)

Spain

• "La Cumbre de los Brujos", Mandrake el Mago: Sundays pages 1956–1959 (Dolmen Editorial) (2021)

Sweden

• "Häxtoppen", Fantomen #24 (1998)

Turkey

• "Kara Büyünün Sırrı", Mandrake #104 & #105 (1976)
• "Kara Büyünün Sırrı", Mandrake Albüm #35
• "Kara Büyünün Sırrı", Mandrake Albüm #114

USA

• "Witchmen's Peak", Mandrake the Ultimate #1 (1989)