The Three Brothers

The Three Brothers
Start date:	July 24th, 1977
End date:	October 16th, 1977
# of strips:	15 (15 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Fred Fredericks
Preceded by:	"Mysterious Bigfoot"
Followed by:	"Mr Ttazz"

"The Three Brothers" is the 135th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.

Original drawing (First Sunday page)

Plot Summary

Mandrake and Lothar have reached a small town. Mandrake is going to call Narda and get some sleep at a the hotel. Lothar is not sleepy and want to look in at a carnival.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Narda, mentioned only.
• Lothar

One-time characters

• Waldo, a strong man at the carnival.
• Great Boris, Waldo's big brother.
• Gorganza, Waldo and Boris' biggest brother.

Locations

• The mountains
  • A small town.
    • A carnival.

Behind the scenes

• At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "The Three Brothers", which is lifted from the plot.

Signifiant covers

• 
  Italy
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  Portugal

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Argentina

• "Titanes de Cartón", Sandokan #16 (1983)

France

• "Lothar à la foire", Mandrake #443 (1978)
• "La fête foraine", Le Journal de Mickey #1397-#1401 (1979)
• "La fête foraine", Mandrake (Les récits du Journal de Mickey) Volume 1 (2015)
• "La fête foraine", Mandrake, intégrale du journal Mickey (Volume 1) (2016 or 2017)

India

• "Lothar the Mighty", Indrajal Comics #331 (1979)

Italy

• "Il ladro di quadri", Mandrake #88 (1978)
• "Lotta libera", Mandrake - New Comics Now #376 (1997)

Portugal

• "Lotário na Feira", Êxitos da TV #10 (1979)
• "Lotário na Feira", Êxitos da TV (ca 1979)

Turkey

• "Gençlik İksiri", Mandrake #211 & #212 (1978)
• "Gençlik İksiri", Mandrake Albüm #68 & #69 (1978)
• "Gençlik İksiri", Mandrake Albüm #168
• "Gençlik İksiri", Mandrake Süper Albüm #59