Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux)

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Mondes Mystérieux
Mandrake
Mmm-001.jpg
First issue
Country/language: Mini france.gif France / French
Publishing company: Editions des Remparts
Publishing years: 1962–1980
Issues: 451
Format: 15×21 < 19×26 cm,
b/w & color


Issue overview

Regular series

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 and published in France from June 1962 to August 1980. The Mandrake stories were supplemented by American comics such as "Tim Tyler's Luck", "Rip Kirby" and "Ben Bolt", and Italian comics. A total of 451 issues were published from 1962 to 1980. Strangely, it seems that issue #431 never was printed.

1962 0 1 2 3 4 5 6  
1963 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  
1964 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48  
1965 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73  
1966 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99  
1967 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144  
1968 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192  
1969 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244  
1970 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297
1971 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314  
1971   315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346  
1972 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354  
1972   355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385  
1973 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414  
1974 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424  
1975 425 426 427 428  
1976 429 430  
1977 431 432 433 434 435 436  
1978 437 438 439 440 441 442 443  
1979 444 445 446 447 448 449  
1980 450 451  

Supplement

Mandrake Kangourou

The "Kangouro" issues were supplement to issues 324, 328 and 342. Inside the supplement there was a poster and one back issue of both a "Mandrake" and "The Phantom" comics. The Phantom series also had a similar "Kangouro" series.

Sunday pages

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).

Collector binder

Two collector binders with the Sunday pages supplement were issued.

Albums

Albums (initial series)

Unsold copies of the "Mandrake" and the "Spécial Mandrake" series from 1963 to 1967 were glued together with a new outer cover and sold as "albums", at first in an initial run of at least 16 albums.

Albums (new series)

Unsold copies of the "Mandrake" series from 1967 to 1975 were glued together with a new outer cover and sold as "Mandrake Album". The issues inside the albums may vary due to how many copies the publisher had of each unsold issue. Issues from the Phantom series, and other series, sometime replaced Mandrake issues. Album issues 20 to 25 have widely varying content, also due to the change in format and pages of the regular Mandrake series.

L'âge d'or – Mandrake

"L'âge d'or" (= The Golden Age) collected the eight-page Sunday page supplements originally published in "Mandrake" issues 355 to 416. A total of 499 Sunday pages were reprinted in four albums.