Spécial Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux)

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Mandrake Spécial was the title of two French comic series dedicated to "Mandrake".

Issue overview

The first series was based on the Italian series Mandrake Super Albo and was published in France by Les Editions des Remparts, a French comics editor based in Lyon, but it was in fact translated and printed in Italy by Fratelli Spada. It was also occasionally distributed in Quebec, Canada by Presses Selection Limitée in Montreal.

99 issues were published from 1963 to 1972, in a larger format than the regular Mandrake series, and was monthly for most of its run.

Unsold copies were later glued together with a new outer cover and sold as "albums" under two different series : firstly, there were 16 albums, containing issues # 5 to 46, followed by 21 other albums, containing issues # 47 to 97. However, in some of these albums, the inside regular issues have been retaken in an erratic order when not simply missing...

The issues featured dailies and Sundays, from Phil Davis to Fred Fredericks, and occasionally other back-up comics.

Regular series

1963 1 2 3 4  
1964 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
1965 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
1966 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
1967 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
1968 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
1969 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75  
1970 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86  
1971 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95  
1972 96 97 98  
1973 99  

Albums (initial running)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Albums (new running)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Second series

Mandrake Spécial Nouvelle Série #2 to #5 have the same covers and format as the Italian I Quaderni del Fumetto series, but with other Mandrake stories. Strangly enough, it seems that # 6 never was printed. #7 to #22 are identical with #4 to #19 from the Italian Mandrake Selezione series.

One find various back-up stories with; Agent X9, Big Ben Bolt, Captain Kate, Cino e Franco, Cisci Kid, Flash Gordon and Rip Kirby.

After the last issue (#22) the series (from #7) was collected into Album Mandrake Spécial with "new" covers.

Albums

See also