The Lunar Trip

The Lunar Trip
Start date:	March 27th, 1938
End date:	September 18th, 1938
# of strips:	26 (26 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"The Treasure Hunt"
Followed by:	"Mandrake and Lothar at the Carnival"

"The Lunar Trip" is the 8th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

By a complex rearrangement of atomic structures, Prof. Thursby has created Thuren, a substance that is not affected by gravity. It resists gravity and falls up instead of down. Now he has build a rocket ship powered with Thuren, heading for the Moon.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar

One-time characters

• Prof. Thursby, a scientist.
• Laura, daughter of Thursby.
• Star-dust, the rocket ship.
• Moon-men,
• Garo, a Moon-man.
• Hyra, a Moon-man.
• Fire people,

Locations

• US ?
  • A remote section of the rockies.
• The Moon
  • Lunatopia, city on the other side of the Moon.
• Atlantis, built by the Moon-men.

Behind the scenes

• At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "The Lunar Trip", which is lifted from the plot.

Signifiant covers

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  Brazil
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  Italy
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  Spain
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  Turkey
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  USA

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "Mandrake meets the Moon Men", The Supercomic Series #10 (1948)

Belgium

• "(no title)", Story# 179 to Story# 204 (1948-1949)

France

• "Mandrake sur la Lune", Robinson #127 to Robinson #152 (1938-1939)
• "La cité lunaire", Collection merveilleuse #13 (1940)
• "Mandrake sur la Lune", Mandrake #37 (1964)
• "L'autre côté de la lune", Mandrake roi de la magie #2 (1964)
• "L'autre côté de la lune", Mandrake roi de la magie #23 (1967)
• "Mandrake sur la Lune", Spécial Mandrake #83 (1970)
• "Mandrake sur la Lune", L'âge d'or Mandrake #2 (1980)

Italy

• "Mandrake sulla Luna", Albo avventuroso 1 - Mandrake #8 and *"La rivolta dell macchine", Albo avventuroso 2 - Mandrake #9 (1948)
• "Mandrake sulla Luna", Mandrake #66 (1964)
• "Mandrake sulla Luna", L'epoca d'oro di Mandrake #2 (1980)

Norway

• "Mandrake i Lunatopia", Skippern (1948)

Poland

• "??", Świat Przygód #142-167 (1938-1939)

Spain

• "no given title", Aventurero Almanaque #1940 (1939)
• "La ciudad Lunar", Merlin el Mago Moderno #6 (1943)
• "La Expedición Lunar", Mandrake #4 (1999)

Turkey

• no title, 1001 Roman - Özel Sayı #69 (1945) Note: starts half-way through the original adventure.
• "Ayda", 1001 Özel #67 (1953) Note: Traced editions of 1001 Roman - Özel Sayı 69.

USA

• "(no title)", King Comics #34, King Comics #35, King Comics #36, King Comics #37, King Comics #38, King Comics #39, and King Comics #40 (1939)
• "In the Fire World", Feature Book #46 (1946)

Yugoslavia

• "Mandrake putuje na Mjesec", Jutarnji list January 23, 1939 – March 30, 1939 (in daily format)
• "Mandrak na Mesecu", Biblioteka Nostalgija #3 (1985)