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=== [[Image:mini_france.gif]] France ===
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*"L'homme taupe", [[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 133|''Mandrake'' #133]] & [[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 134|''Mandrake'' #134]] (1967)
*"L'homme taupe", [[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 133|''Mandrake'' #133]] & [[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 134|''Mandrake'' #134]] (1967)
*"La taupe", [[Le Journal de Mickey 1 (Hors-série)|''Le Journal de Mickey'' #1]] (2005)


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Revision as of 11:51, 30 April 2013

The Mole
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Start date: August 16th, 1964
End date: March 14th, 1965
# of strips: 31 (31 weeks)
Writer: Lee Falk
Artist: Phil Davis and Martha Davis
Preceded by: "The Castaway"
Followed by: "The Traveller's Tale"

"The Mole" is the 95th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

A series of mysterious and impossible robberies, where it looked like a giant mole had come into the well-guarded vault, awakened Mandrake's interest.

In the gould vault of Fort Knox Mandrake faces one of the strangest and most deadly thief in the history of crime, The Mole.

Appearances

Recurring characters

One-time characters

  • Fluff, a dog.

Locations

  • An army camp.
  • New York.
  • Fort Knox.

Objects

  • The green egg, the world's largest emarald.
  • The Mogul ruby, a priceless ruby.


Behind the scenes

  • Lothar occurs only in the second week of this story.
  • Phil Davis died of a heart attack on December 16, 1964. His wife and assistant Martha Davis continued the art, as seen from early 1965.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

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