Mandrake (Tay)

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Mandrake was the regular series of Mandrake comic books published by the Turkish publisher Tay Yayınları. A total of 316 issues were released from 1974 to late 1980's. Cover illustrations were by Turkish artists, the most prolific being Aslan Şükür.

History

First series (1974-1979)

The first issue is dated July 8, 1974 and the last (#250) on May 13, 1979. The issues in this weekly publication had 52, 44 and 34 pages. The stories have been newspaper strip stories.

Unsold issues were collected in albums later with 3 issues included in each album.

After the weekly run of the magazine ceased, the albums continued (#82 to #231) their run with reprints and occasional brand new adventures of Fred Fredericks, Phil Davis and a few stories from Fratelli Spada artists for several additional years.

Issue overview

Regular series

1974 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  
1975 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 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78  
1976 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131
1977 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183  
1978 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235  
1979 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250  

Second series

This weekly series did not have any printed publishing dates. On the covers one find the text KDV Dahil. Turkey introduced value-added tax (VAT) from the 1st of January 1985, so the second Mandrake series was published after this date.

Issues in this series had 52 pages with newspaper stories by Lee Falk and Fred Fredericks. Unsold issues were collected into Süper Albüms later.

After the weekly run of the magazine ceased, the Süper Albüms continued (#21 to #80) their run with reprints and occasional brand new adventures of Fred Fredericks and Phil Davis.

Süper Albüms had one more series (#1 to #33).

Issue overview

Regular 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 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66