MandrakeWiki - User contributions [en]

Pacifica

2015-10-06T21:22:56Z

Stripar: Pasifica = Pacifica etc

{{Newspaperbox
|Title= Pacifica
|image= [[Image:ms-19420419.jpg|250px|border]]
|Start= April 19th, 1942
|End= November 1st, 1942
|Strips= 29 (29 weeks)
|Writer= [[Lee Falk]]
|Artist= [[Phil Davis]]
|Preceded= "[[The Flame Pearls Pt.8: The Hungry Isles|The Flame Pearls Pt.8:<br>The Hungry Isles]]"
|Followed= "[[Mystery of the Girls with Red Hair]]"
|}}

'''"Pacifica"''' is the 22nd Mandrake [[Sunday story]].
The story was written by [[Lee Falk]] and drawn by [[Phil Davis]].

== Plot Summary ==
Mandrake returning from a scientific expedition to the South Pacific, looking for ''flame colored pearls''. Now they have reached a small outpost island of Pacifica, a group of American-owned islands. Approaching the outpost isle there is a strange lifeless silence, where everything lies in ruins. The Argos travelers have been far away from civilization, and know nothing of the colossal conflict that has shaken the Earth..

===Appearances===
<div style="float:left; width:40%;">
'''Recurring characters'''
*[[Mandrake]]
*[[Lothar]]

'''One-time characters'''
*[[Colonel Barton]]
*June, daughter of Colonel Barton.
*Major Gallant, the marine commandant at Pacifica.
*Private Jimmy, a marine.
*The Jap naval chief.
*The Jap commander.

</div><div style="float:right; width:40%;">
'''Locations'''
*South Pacific.
*Pacifica Island.
'''Vehicles'''
*S.S.[[Argos]], Colonel Barton's yacht.
</div><br clear="all">

==Behind the scenes==
*At the [http://www.deepwoods.org deepwoods.org] index the title for this story is '''"Pacifica"''', which is lifted from the plot.
*The strip of October 25 ends with: ''And so the Argos leaves Pacifica !'', and indicates the end of the story. The strip of November 1 is more like a ''filler page'', where our friends think of ''"how nice it is to be back in the safe big city again"'' versus how many risks that pop up in a big city.

== Reprints ==
This story has been published in the following publications:

=== [[Image:mini_usa.gif]] USA ===
*[[King Comics (magazine)|King Comics]] (1943-1944)

=== [[Image:mini_kingdomyugoslavia.png|border]] [[Image:mini_yugoslavia.png|border]] Yugoslavia ===
*"Bitka na Pacifiku", [[Biblioteka Nostalgija 8|''Biblioteka Nostalgija'' #8]] (1988)

[[Category:Sunday stories|Pacifica]]

Louise Falk

2015-10-06T16:19:38Z

Stripar: i = in

{{Creator
|name=Louise Falk
|image=[[Image:Louise_Kanasireff-1936.jpg|200px]]
|Born= October 25, 1911
|Died= August 4, 1999
|Nationality= [[Image:mini_usa.gif]] American
|Occupation=
|Website=
|}}

'''Louise Falk''' (née Kanazireff) was the first wife of [[Lee Falk]] from 1935 until 1944 ''(1945 ?)''. The surname has been written slightly differently as a result of the transliteration from Bulgarian Cyrillic orthography to the Latin alphabet.

== Biography ==
Louise is the daughter of Vladimir and Lillian ''(née Rooch)'' Kanazireff. They married in 1910 when her father was the Bulgarian Consul in Paris. Louise was born in St. Louis when her mother visited her family. In 1921 the family moved permanently to St. Louis, and changed the spelling of their surname to Kanasireff.

After graduate Roosevelt High School Louise attended the Washington University. She married Lee Falk in 1935, and after graduating in 1936 they moved to New York City. In NY Louise studying with Frances Robinson Duff, but the newly married couple also traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East the next two years.

In 1939 Louise made her debut in the '''Farragut Playhouse''' at Rye Beach (New Hampshire) as part of their resident company. Louise and Lee's daughter Valerie was born May 23, 1940. This year Lee Falk had been involved in the '''Cambridge Summer Theatre''' and Louise acted as part of their resident company from 1941. Due to Lee Falk's WWII obligation Louise also took care of Lee's responsibilities at the Cambridge Summer Theatre in the years 1942 to 1944.

Louise changed her acting name to '''Louise Valery''' in 1943. Lee Falk and Louise were divorced, and in 1945 Louise remarried with Richard Hart. After the death of her husband in 1951 Louise remarried Peter Cadby.

==Behind the scenes==
Louise have been used as name for characters in Mandrake strips once:
{| {{table}}
!Year !!Daily/Sunday !!Title !! Comments
|-
|1956 || [[Sunday stories|Sunday]] || "[[The Miss Galaxy Beauty Contest]]" || as Louisa of Bulgarn
|-
|}

==References==
*[http://home.ancestry.com/ Ancestry.com]; Passenger Lists, U.S. School Yearbooks, Census and Voter Lists
*Roosevelt High School - Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO) - Class of 1932
*Portsmouth Herald: August 2, 1939 p6; August 23, 1939 p6.
*The Harvard Crimson; Playgoer articles
*Billboard magazines 1940-1946
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hart_%28actor%29 Richard Hart]

==See also==
[[Spotlight on Lee Falk - The Theatre Years]]

[[Category: Cameos, parodies and imitations|People]]

Louise Falk

2015-10-06T15:51:34Z

Stripar:

{{Creator
|name=Louise Falk
|image=[[Image:Louise_Kanasireff-1936.jpg|200px]]
|Born= October 25, 1911
|Died= August 4, 1999
|Nationality= [[Image:mini_usa.gif]] American
|Occupation=
|Website=
|}}

'''Louise Falk''' (née Kanazireff) was the first wife of [[Lee Falk]] from 1935 until 1944 ''(1945 ?)''. The surname has been written slightly differently as a result of the transliteration from Bulgarian Cyrillic orthography to the Latin alphabet.

== Biography ==
Louise is the daughter of Vladimir and Lillian ''(née Rooch)'' Kanazireff. They married in 1910 when her father was the Bulgarian Consul i Paris. Louise was born in St. Louis when her mother visited her family. In 1921 the family moved permanently to St. Louis, and changed the spelling of their surname to Kanasireff.

After graduate Roosevelt High School Louise attended the Washington University. She married Lee Falk in 1935, and after graduating in 1936 they moved to New York City. In NY Louise studying with Frances Robinson Duff, but the newly married couple also traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East the next two years.

In 1939 Louise made her debut in the '''Farragut Playhouse''' at Rye Beach (New Hampshire) as part of their resident company. Louise and Lee's daughter Valerie was born May 23, 1940. This year Lee Falk had been involved in the '''Cambridge Summer Theatre''' and Louise acted as part of their resident company from 1941. Due to Lee Falk's WWII obligation Louise also took care of Lee's responsibilities at the Cambridge Summer Theatre in the years 1942 to 1944.

Louise changed her acting name to '''Louise Valery''' in 1943. Lee Falk and Louise were divorced, and in 1945 Louise remarried with Richard Hart. After the death of her husband in 1951 Louise remarried Peter Cadby.

==Behind the scenes==
Louise have been used as name for characters in Mandrake strips once:
{| {{table}}
!Year !!Daily/Sunday !!Title !! Comments
|-
|1956 || [[Sunday stories|Sunday]] || "[[The Miss Galaxy Beauty Contest]]" || as Louisa of Bulgarn
|-
|}

==References==
*[http://home.ancestry.com/ Ancestry.com]; Passenger Lists, U.S. School Yearbooks, Census and Voter Lists
*Roosevelt High School - Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO) - Class of 1932
*Portsmouth Herald: August 2, 1939 p6; August 23, 1939 p6.
*The Harvard Crimson; Playgoer articles
*Billboard magazines 1940-1946
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hart_%28actor%29 Richard Hart]

==See also==
[[Spotlight on Lee Falk - The Theatre Years]]

[[Category: Cameos, parodies and imitations|People]]

Angelo Todaro

2015-10-05T09:47:42Z

Stripar: Date and place of birth, according Wikipedia

{{Creator
|name= Angelo Raffaele Todaro
|image=
|Born= Fragagnano, December 17, 1945
|Died=N/A
|Nationality= [[Image:Mini_italy.gif]] Italian
|Occupation=[[:Category:Artists|Artist]]
|Website=[http://www.angelotodaro.it/index.php?/ Official website]
|}}
'''Angelo Todaro''' is an Italian artist.

== Biography ==
Born in the Italian Province of Taranto in 1945, Angelo Todaro moved to Rome in the early sixties to attend the Artistic High School.
In 1967 he worked for the [[Fratelli Spada]], drawing many stories "[[Mandrake the Magician]]" aswell as some "[[The Phantom|Phantom]]" stories. Also for Fratelli Spada, he did some episodes of "Rip Kirby" signed under the pseudonym of '''Al Todd'''.

After this period, he worked with the Studio Giolitti. The Studio was directed by Alberto Giolitti, an Italian artist that had done comic strips in South America and in the USA, like the well-known "Turok, son of Stone", "Star Trek" and "Gunsmoke", on which Angelo Todaro was in charge of inking.

Angelo Todaro also have worked on comics series as "FBI", "Lasso" and "Buffalo Bill" for the German editor Bastei Verlag. He made a series of albums for the Italian publisher Editore Ediperiodici under the pseudonym '''Paul Bennett''' and from the seventies to the nineties drew stories of typical Italian productions "Oltretomba", "Terror", and "Terror Blu".

== Mandrake Stories by Angelo Todaro ==
=== [[Fratelli Spada stories]] ===
{| {{table}}
!# !!Title !! Note
|-
|1|| "[[Pioggia malefica (Spada)|Pioggia malefica (I)]]" ||
|-
|2|| "[[La vittoria di Mandrake (Spada)|La vittoria di Mandrake (II)]]" ||
|-
|3|| "[[Safari mortal (Spada)|Safari mortal]]" ||
|-
|4|| "[[Il guerriero senza testa (Spada)|Il guerriero senza testa]]" ||
|-
|5|| "[[La regina dei rettili (Spada)|La regina dei rettili]]" ||
|-
|6|| "[[L'ultimo avvertimento (Spada)|L'ultimo avvertimento]]" ||
|-
|7|| "[[Un salto nel passato (Spada)|Un salto nel passato]]" ||
|-
|8|| "[[Il signore del gelo (Spada)|Il signore del gelo]]" ||
|-
|9|| "[[Le lettere magnetiche (Spada)|Le lettere magnetiche]]" ||
|-
|10|| "[[Una morsa di ghiaccio (Spada)|Una morsa di ghiaccio]]" ||
|-
|11|| "[[Tu ucciderai (Spada)|Tu ucciderai]]" ||
|-
|12|| "[[Il fantasma della piramide azteca (Spada)|Il fantasma della piramide azteca]]" ||
|-
|13|| "[[I pirati (Spada)|I pirati]]" ||
|-
|14|| "[[Un rompicapo da cento milioni (Spada)|Un rompicapo da cento milioni]]" ||
|-
|15|| "[[L'iceberg fantasma (Spada)|L'iceberg fantasma]]" ||
|-
|16|| "[[Mandrake e il chitarrista beat (Spada)|Mandrake e il chitarrista beat]]" ||
|-
|17|| "[[L'hobby del miliarderio (Spada)|L'hobby del miliarderio]]" ||
|-
|18|| "[[Il mistero insolubile (Spada)|Il mistero insolubile]]" ||
|-
|19|| "[[La minaccia di megafumo (Spada)|La minaccia di megafumo (I]])" || signed TOD
|-
|20|| "[[Fumo contro Fumo (Spada)|Fumo contro Fumo (II)]]" || signed TOD
|-
|21|| "[[La statuetta di carne (Spada)|La statuetta di carne]]" || signed TOD
|-
|22|| "[[Il nouvo vicino (Spada)|Il nouvo vicino]]" || [+ Felmang]
|-
|23|| "[[Lo sterminatore (Spada)|Lo sterminatore]]" || signed TOD
|-
|24|| "[[Suspence a sud-ovest delle Caroline (Spada)|Suspence a sud-ovest delle Caroline]]" || [+ Felmang]
|-
|25 || "[[La mano malefica (Spada)|La mano malefica]]" || signed A. Tod
|-
|26|| "[[Viaggio nel XXII secolo (Spada)|Viaggio nel XXII secolo]]" ||
|-
|27|| "[[Anonima streghe (Spada)|Anonima streghe]]" ||
|-
|28|| "[[La rete del Cobra (Spada)|La rete del Cobra]]" || signed A. Todaro
|-
|}

==Mandrake covers by Angelo Todaro==
=== Fratelli Spada covers ===
====Mandrake - Albi de Il Vascello - nouvo serie====
<gallery>
Image:Ilvascellomandrake-02-085.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 85|''Mandrake'' #85]]</center>
Image:Ilvascellomandrake-02-086.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 86|''Mandrake'' #86]]</center>
Image:Ilvascellomandrake-02-087.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 87|''Mandrake'' #87]]</center>
Image:Ilvascellomandrake-02-088.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 88|''Mandrake'' #88]]</center>
Image:Ilvascellomandrake-02-089.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 89|''Mandrake'' #89]]</center>
Image:Ilvascellomandrake-02-090.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 90|''Mandrake'' #90]]</center>
Image:Ilvascellomandrake-02-099.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 99|''Mandrake'' #99]]</center>
</gallery>

===Editions des Remparts covers===
====Mandrake - Mondes Mystérieux ====
<gallery perrow="6">
Image:mmm-201.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 201|''Mandrake'' #201]]</center>
Image:mmm-202.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 202|''Mandrake'' #202]]</center>
Image:mmm-206.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 206|''Mandrake'' #206]]</center>

Image:mmm-213.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 213|''Mandrake'' #213]]</center>
Image:mmm-238.jpg|<center>[[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 238|''Mandrake'' #238]]</center>
</gallery>

[[Category:Cover artists|Todaro, Angelo]]
[[Category: Artists|Todaro, Angelo]]

Salvatore Stizza

2015-10-05T09:43:10Z

Stripar: Date and place of birth and death, according to Italian obituary in "La tribuna de Treviso" 9/19/2008

{{Creator
|name=Salvatore Stizza
|image=
|Born= Venice, 1931
|Died= Ponte di Piave, September 16, 2008
|Nationality=[[Image:mini_italy.gif]] Italian
|Occupation=[[:Category:Artists|Artist]]
|Website= n/a
|}}

=== Biography ===
'''''Salvatore Stizza''''' was an italian artist. He worked for Fratelli Spada on Mandrake and signed some stories with his pen '''S. Totty'''.

===Mandrake Stories===

{| {{table}}
!Title !! note
|-

|}

[[Category:Artists|Stizza, Salvatore]]

File:Rade Tovladijac signature.jpg

2015-10-04T22:26:51Z

Stripar: Rade Tovladijac's signature

[[Rade Tovladijac]]'s signature

Rade Tovladijac

2015-10-04T21:44:21Z

Stripar: A photo

{{Creator
|name=Rade Tovladijac
|image=[[Image:Rade Tovladijac.jpg|200px]]
|Born= August 1, 1961
|Died= N/A
|Nationality= [[Image:Mini_serbia.gif]] Serbian
|Occupation= [[:Category:Cover artists|Cover artist]]
|Website= http://www.betterflystudio.com
|}}
'''Rade Tovladijac''' (born August 1, 1965) is a Serbian fantasy and comic book artist, illustrator, painter and architect. He is current president of Association of Serbian comics artists, lives in Belgrade.

==Biography==

He was born in Ulcinj, Yugoslavia (now in Montenegro), and grew up in Čačak (in Serbia). He obtained his degree at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade with project "Celestial City - Orbital Station in Lagrange stationary point - L5."

He debuted in Yugoslav comics industry in 1983, as member of "Bauhaus 7" art group, together with Zoran Tucić, Vujadin Radovanović and Saša Živković.

Tovladijac is especially known for his painted covers for popular Yugoslav magazines and collections ''Nostalgija'', ''Gigant'', ''Horor'', ''Tajne'', featuring [[The Phantom]], [[Mandrake]], Modesty Blaise, James Bond, Batman and other popular characters.

Among his main comics series are "Ljudi za zvezde" written by Aleksandar Timotijević (Sci-Fi, in ''YU strip magazine''), "Smešna strana srpske stvarnosti" written by Mihailo Medenica (satirical Saturday page in ''Press'' daily, Belgrade).

He has exhibited in group exhibitions in the former Yugoslavia, the UK, Greece and Hungary.

==External links==
*[http://www.betterflystudio.com/ Tovladijac's "Betterfly Studio", official website, Belgrade]
* [http://www.comicvine.com/rade-tovladijac/4040-80479/images/ Gallery at Comicvine]

== Mandrake work by Rade Tovladijac ==
=== Covers ===
<gallery>
Image:Biblioteka Nostalgija-13.jpg|[[Biblioteka Nostalgija 13]] cover
</gallery>

[[Category:Cover artists|Tovladijac, Rade]]
[[Category: Artists|Tovladijac, Rade]]

File:Rade Tovladijac.jpg

2015-10-04T21:42:53Z

Stripar: Rade Tovladijac (born August 1, 1965), Serbian fantasy and comic book artist. Current president of Association of Serbian comics artists. Source: [http://www.usus.org.rs/clanovi-2/47-rade-tovladijac Official biography] CC 3.0 Unported

Rade Tovladijac (born August 1, 1965), Serbian fantasy and comic book artist. Current president of Association of Serbian comics artists. Source: [http://www.usus.org.rs/clanovi-2/47-rade-tovladijac Official biography] CC 3.0 Unported

Rade Tovladijac

2015-10-04T21:41:50Z

Stripar: Adaptation form English Wikipedia

{{Creator
|name=Rade Tovladijac
|image=
|Born= August 1, 1961
|Died= N/A
|Nationality= [[Image:Mini_serbia.gif]] Serbian
|Occupation= [[:Category:Cover artists|Cover artist]]
|Website= http://www.betterflystudio.com
|}}
'''Rade Tovladijac''' (born August 1, 1965) is a Serbian fantasy and comic book artist, illustrator, painter and architect. He is current president of Association of Serbian comics artists, lives in Belgrade.

==Biography==

He was born in Ulcinj, Yugoslavia (now in Montenegro), and grew up in Čačak (in Serbia). He obtained his degree at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade with project "Celestial City - Orbital Station in Lagrange stationary point - L5."

He debuted in Yugoslav comics industry in 1983, as member of "Bauhaus 7" art group, together with Zoran Tucić, Vujadin Radovanović and Saša Živković.

Tovladijac is especially known for his painted covers for popular Yugoslav magazines and collections ''Nostalgija'', ''Gigant'', ''Horor'', ''Tajne'', featuring [[The Phantom]], [[Mandrake]], Modesty Blaise, James Bond, Batman and other popular characters.

Among his main comics series are "Ljudi za zvezde" written by Aleksandar Timotijević (Sci-Fi, in ''YU strip magazine''), "Smešna strana srpske stvarnosti" written by Mihailo Medenica (satirical Saturday page in ''Press'' daily, Belgrade).

He has exhibited in group exhibitions in the former Yugoslavia, the UK, Greece and Hungary.

==External links==
*[http://www.betterflystudio.com/ Tovladijac's "Betterfly Studio", official website, Belgrade]
* [http://www.comicvine.com/rade-tovladijac/4040-80479/images/ Gallery at Comicvine]

== Mandrake work by Rade Tovladijac ==
=== Covers ===
<gallery>
Image:Biblioteka Nostalgija-13.jpg|[[Biblioteka Nostalgija 13]] cover
</gallery>

[[Category:Cover artists|Tovladijac, Rade]]
[[Category: Artists|Tovladijac, Rade]]