Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux)
Mandrake was a French comic book dedicated to Mandrake published by Editions des Remparts from June 1962 to August 1980.
History
Mandrake (subtitle Mondes mystérieux = "Mysterious Worlds") was the first regular Mandrake publication of Editions des Remparts. It was based on the Italian publisher Fratelli Spada's Mandrake series.
The Mandrake stories were supplemented by American comics such as "Tim Tyler's Luck", "Rip Kirby" and "Ben Bolt", and Italian comics.
Each issue from #355 to #417 contained a 8 pages supplement (except for #417 having a limited 4 pages supplement) - with a format of 38 cm x 50 cm - reproducing Sunday pages published between February 3, 1935 and August 27, 1944. Those supplements were later collected, first in two albums, then next in 1980 into four albums entitled L'âge d'or (The Golden Age).
A total of 451 issues were published from 1962 to 1980. Strangely, it seems that issue #431 never was printed.
Unsold copies were later glued together with a new outer cover and sold as "albums", at first in an initial run of at least 10 albums (from 1963 to 1965) then with a new longer run of 54 albums from 1967 to 1975.
Issue overview
Regular series
Albums (initial series)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||||
Albums (new series)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | ||||||
Mandrake Kangourou
Le Fantôme Kangourou 1
Le Fantôme Kangourou 2
Le Fantôme Kangourou 3
See also
- Mandrake in Italy.
