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*"O Roubo de Energia Elétrica", [[Mandrake 319 (RGE)|''Mandrake'' #319]] (1982)
*"O Roubo de Energia Elétrica", [[Mandrake 319 (RGE)|''Mandrake'' #319]] (1982)
*"O Apagão", [[Coleção King Komix 3 |''Coleção King Komix'' #3]] (2001)
*"O Apagão", [[Coleção King Komix 3 |''Coleção King Komix'' #3]] (2001)
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*"Le secret du docteur Zède", [[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 415|''Mandrake'' #415]] (1974)
*"La grande panne", [[Le Journal de Mickey|''Le Journal de Mickey'' #1174 to #1180]]
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*"Il segreto del dottor Zeta", [[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 33|''Mandrake'' #33]] (1967)
*"Il segreto del dottor Zeta", [[Mandrake - Il Vascello – Serie Cronologica 61|''Mandrake'' #61]] (1974)


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=== [[Image:mini_sweden.gif]] Sweden ===
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=== [[Image:mini_yugoslavia.png|border]] Yugoslavia ===
*"Tajni projekt", [[Plavi Vjesnik 702|''Plavi Vjesnik'' #702]] (1968)
*"Grad u tami", [[Super EKS Almanah 40|''Super EKS Almanah'' #40]] (1983)
*"Grad u tami", [[Super EKS Almanah 40|''Super EKS Almanah'' #40]] (1983)


[[Category:Sunday stories|Blackout Caper, The]]
[[Category:Sunday stories|Blackout Caper, The]]

Revision as of 19:30, 27 June 2013

The Blackout Caper
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Start date: January 1st, 1967
End date: April 23rd, 1967
# of strips: 17 (17 weeks)
Writer: Lee Falk
Artist: Fred Fredericks
Preceded by: "The Astro Pirates"
Followed by: "The Meeting of Mandrake and Lothar"

"The Blackout Caper" is the 100th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.

Plot Summary

A mysterious doctor gather gangster chiefs from several cities, offering them two hours complete darkness for 500 miles in every direction -if they pay him 2 millions in cash.

During the two hours blackout it was chaos and crimes. But strangly during the blackout the generators kept working. Was the blackout a cover for stealing the power, if so - why ?

Appearances

Recurring characters

One-time characters

  • Doctor Zed, inventor of a thermonuclar reactor. And a mad scientist.
  • Dudley, works for dr. Zed.
  • Scar, a gangster chief.
  • Finger, a gangster chief.
  • Helmsman, a police man.

Locations

  • Xanadu
  • Goat Island, formerly state hospital, now hide out for dr. Zed.


Behind the scenes

  • The story title is from the strip of January 1st, 1967 (Continued: The Blackout Caper).
  • On tv, a Phantom movie.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

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