Volume One: the complete newspaper dailies 1934-1936

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Volume One: the complete newspaper dailies 1934-1936

Cover artist: from Phil Davis art
Country/language: USA / English
Format: 20.5 × 30.5 cm
Pages: 288 pgs, bl. & w, color
Publishing date: 2024
Editor: Daniel Herman
Publishing company: Hermes Press
Preceded by: The Complete Newspaper Dailies: Volume 1934-1936
Followed by: Volume Two : the complete newspaper dailies 1936-1938
978-1-61345-261-5


Mandrake the Magician / Volume One: the complete newspaper dailies 1934-1936 (exact title without capital letters) is a hardcover book published by "Hermes Press" in March 2024. Each page has two dailies strips in large format.

It is presented as reprints of the "Mandrake the Magician" daily stories initially published by "King Features Syndicate" from 1934 to 1936.

In fact this book was pre-ordered since at least 2020/2021 under the projected edition The Complete Newspaper Dailies: Volume 1934-1936 but not finally released in at the time (then only cover and exact title being different).

Contents

Mandrake stories

Articles

  • "Introduction - The Mandrake Mystique" by Arne R.Flaten from Purdue University (article how the Mandrake character appears in comics, movies, press and radion serial worlds)
  • "Production Note" (unsigned) : a note about the difficulties to find readable material from the first stories as some strips have to be combined from different sources. It also emphasies that, the "future volumes of the series will see this issue fade away as tear sheets become more complete". Also noted that there are some sizing differences of varying reproductions in some pages where the strips do not fit perfectly into the book layout.

Working cover