Mandrake le Magicien (Nemo Editions)
| Mandrake le Magicien (Nemo Editions) | |
 Cover artist: Phil Davis (from story art) | |
| Country/language: |  France / French
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| Format: | 21 × 29,5 cm |
| Pages: | 52 pgs, b/w |
| Publishing date: | January, 2025 |
| Editor: | Nemo Editions |
| Publishing company: | Nemo Editions |
| Preceded by: | none |
| Followed by: | none] |
| 979-10-91942-01-0 | |
Mandrake le Magicien (Nemo Editions) is a French collectors' limited edition published in 2025 by Nemo Editions. It is modelled after the BD V.F. issues published between 1980 and 1984.
Contents
Mandrake stories
- "Les pirates du Père Noël" ("The Santa Claus Pirates") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
- "La fontaine de jouvence" ("Fountain of Youth") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
- "Le roi du vent" ("Kingdom of the Wind") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
Written texts
- "Préface" ("Preface"): a two pages text, signed "Nemo", about the French Mandrake publications and recalling, in particular, the previous issues of the BD V.F. series in the '80. It tells how this 2025 limited edition for collectors make the link between the four volumes of the L'âge d'or – Mandrake - stories # 1 to # 27 (1935 to 1944) - and the five volumes of the "BD V.F." series - stories # 31 to # 56 (1945 to 1953). Here is printed the three missing stories between in these two series: stories # 28 to # 30 (1944-1945), a kind of "Volume 0" according the BD V.F. chronology.
- A list of all the Sunday pages from 1935 to 2002 (3 pages).
