Employment Agency

Employment Agency
Start date:	March 3, 1958
End date:	May 24, 1958
# of strips:	72 (12 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"The New-Type Radio"
Followed by:	"Narda's Adventure"

"Employment Agency" is the 96th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

Mrs. Turner came to the police station to report an employment agency. Across sthe street she have something strange. All day people go in, mostly young, but only the old ones came back out.

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• The Police Chief
• Narda

One-time characters

• Mrs. Turner,
• Jerry, a police man.

Locations

• New York
  • S.S. Div.
• Cyni 2, a planet about eight light years from Earth.

Behind the scenes

• The title for this story is taken from the strip of March 3, 1958 (Beginning: Employment Agency).
• A mystery: When Mandrake suggest he and Narda could pretend to be a married couple her response is: As it happens we're not a married couple and then -icy silence. Else, the story provides no understanding that marriage is an issue between them.

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  March 26, 1958

Signifiant covers

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  Brazil
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  Italy
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  Spain

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "Employment Agency", Mandrake the Magician #9 (1961 (?))

Brazil

• "Agência de Empregos", Mandrake #35 (1958)
• "Agência de Empregos!", Mandrake #304 (1981)
• "Agência de Empregos", Mandrake Coleção #22 (1991)

France

• "SOS Terre", Les héros du mystère - Extra issue Summer 1967 (1967)
• "L'agence pour l'emploi", Mandrake le Magicien (Collection Clair de lune) Volume 3 - 1957 à 1961 (2012)

Italy

• "S.O.S. Terra", Il Vascello #30 (1960)
• "S.O.S. Terra", I Classici dell'Avventura #33 (1963)
• "S.O.S. Terra", Mandrake - New Comics Now #347 (1995)

Spain

• "Civilizacion extraña", Merlin el Mago Moderno #8 (1958)
• "Civilizacion extraña", Merlin el Mago Moderno - Album de Lujo #2 (1959)
• "Extraña Civilización", Mandrake #43 (1998)

United Kingdom

• "Employment Agency", Mandrake the Magician #3 & #4 (1958/1959)