The Trade Commission

The Trade Commission
(original art)
Start date:	September 16th, 1962
End date:	March 10th, 1963
# of strips:	26 (26 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"Task Test"
Followed by:	"The Ghost Lover"

"The Trade Commission" is the 91st Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

A few years ago "operation way-out", a communications project for outer space, sent out a satellite. When the satellite is captured by some strange aliens the signals suddenly stops.

Appearances

Recurring characters

One-time characters

Col Carlson, chief of "operation way-out".
Mac, an astronaut.
Jim, a farmer.
Captain Jim, owner of a boat.
The President of the United States.
Ugo, a alian on a trade mission hoping to sell suchi crystals.
Tubo, a alian on a trade mission hoping to sell suchi crystals.

Locations

US
- Washington
  - The White House
Deep space
- The Blue Planet

Vehicles

Mercury twelve, a space capsule orbiting Earth.

Behind the scenes

The story title is taken from the strip of September 23, 1962 (Beginning: The Trade Commission). A similar title is at the end of the strip of September 9th, 1962 (Next Week: Trade Commission).
Note: At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "The Trade Commission (The Blue Planet)".