The Menomonee Falls Gazette

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The Menomonee Falls Gazette was a weekly tabloid, published by Street Entreprises that reprinted newspaper comic strips from USA and UK.

History

The first issue was put out in December 1971, with the final issue coming out in March 1978. All together, there were 232 issues (the latter one being misnumbered 234) with smaller format for the last three issues. All covers were black and white, except for the issue #100 (which also received an extra-size cover in color) and for the issue #52 (sepia).

The tabloid was printed in big size (28,5 x 44,5 cm) and was ordinary folded but it is now often found unfolded. Comic daily strips (6 strips each comic hero on one page) reprinted in this publication normally fell into the adventure and soap-opera category. Some Sunday pages material was also published on the centrefold pages. Its sister publication, The Menomonee Falls Guardian, published humorous strips.

Numerous classical comics were published (The Phantom amongst them) coming from various comics syndicates. Mandrake appeared from the first issue to issue #223 and was featured on the front cover of issues #23, 45, 70, 94, 147, 180, 214 and 223.

Issue overview

1971 1 2 3  
1972 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  
1973 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 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 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107
1974 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159  
1975 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211  
1976 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226  
1977 227 228 229 230 231  
1978 234  

Mandrake stories in The Menomonee Falls Gazette

# Title Start End Weeks
148 "Magic Man" 1 2 2 last weeks
149 "The Rogues" 3 17 15
150 "The Mission" 18 30 13
151 "Trail of the Pusher" 31 46 16
152 "Dr Xoz Prof. of Smells" 47 58 12
153 "The Ratmen of Rodencia" 59 74 16
154 "The Incredible Thief" 75 92 18
155 "Tale of Aleena" 93 111 19
156 "Super-Elec" 112 121 10
157 "The Bug Man" 122 139 18
158 "The Cobra and the Cube" 140 152 13
159 "The Search for the Cobra" 153 163 11
160 "The Thieves" 164 193 30
161 "Super Shark" 194 204 (?) 13
162 "The Frame-Up" 207 119 13
163 "The Evil Twin" 220 223 4 first weeks

Covers with Mandrake