Mandrake The Magician

#175: D003 The Monster of Tanov Pass From 25 Feb 1935 To 15 Jun 1935

2011-02-24T08:32:00.009-10:00

Posting after a while. One more Daily that has a weird professor keeping monsters as pets.

Nice imaginative story here.

Thanks to the Australian Women's weekly archives for having this story published and made available. Thanks to Venkit Subramanian for extracting the scans from the PDFs and cleaning them.

This particular strip shows how brave Lothar is, I would guess nobody would like to be in his situation facing a monster snake.

The scans are much more readable...As always, liked the drawings of Phil Davis. Enjoy.

On another note, regarding World Cup Cricket 2011, this coming weekend India plays England at Bangalore, how do you see India's chances at winning the game? Are you all watching cricket on a daily basis or only following particular teams?

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Lee Falk the Story Teller a very good article

2011-02-15T09:42:00.003-10:00

Found an excellent article on Phantom and Mandrake and wanted to share with you all.

Really well written and what a good blog this one is.

Enjoy reading....

http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2009/06/lee-falk-storyteller.html

#174: D002 The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda) From 26 Nov 1934 To 23 Feb 1935

2011-01-29T12:39:00.010-10:00

What a story this is! Mandrake meets Narda for the first time. She does quite a lot to Mandrake which I had never known until now....well I won't give away the story.

With all the recent chaos in Egypt, it is such a coincidence that Mandrake and Lothar in the story are in Alexandria, Egypt.

Thanks to the Australian Women's weekly archives for having this story published and made available. Thanks to Venkit Subramanian for extracting the scans from the PDFs and cleaning them.

For, the first time, the story in black and white has a few colored panels. I guess, Phil Davis was experimenting how it would turn out. The black and white scans were back soon enough.

So many magic tricks in this story are very creative of Lee Falk.

Also, I had never seen Mandrake use some harsh language on Lothar before. The last panel was a little disrespectful.

The scans are barely readable, but these are the first ones I can find for this daily in English. I have the PDFs of the story if someone wants to read it that way.

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Missing Page in Feature Book 46 Mandrake On The Moon

2011-01-29T12:08:00.005-10:00

Thanks to Venkit Subramanian for pointing out that I had a page missing in the story.

Here is the page.

I have updated the CBR file with this page. You can download the entire file again or add the missing page to your CBR file.

#173: Mandrake The Magician in the Fire World

2011-01-26T21:44:00.004-10:00

Hope you are all doing well.

Wishing you a belated Happy New Year.

Due to various reasons, was unable to post any stories for a long time.

Found some missing pages I needed to complete the scans of this feature book, most are in color just 4 of them in black and white but the story is now complete.

Three Classic Sundays are in this book with a couple of filler pages.

S008 The Lunar Trip From 27 Mar 1938 To 18 Sept 1938 26 Weeks
S010 The Haunted Range From 30 Oct 1938 To 25 Dec 1938 9 Weeks
S011 City of Gold From 5 Feb 1939 To 6 Aug 1939 27 Weeks

Enjoy.

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#172: S071 The Miss Galaxy Beauty Contest From 18 Nov 1956 To 9 Jun 1957

2010-05-14T09:01:00.003-10:00

Here is a long time Sunday where Narda is chosen as the Miss Galaxy. Scans not one of the best I could find. Readable scans. I have clipped these from Newspaper archives and microfiche film from the library. Missing 3 weeks. Let me know if anyone has it. Enjoy.

Getting ready for my vacation to India. Will be in Bangalore and Mysore, have not decided where I will be spending my time the most. Plan to catchup on old friends and family.

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#171: S023 Mystery of the Girls with Red Hair From 8 Nov 1942 to 28 Feb 1943

2010-05-01T07:12:00.011-10:00

Been a little late in posting some stories...Hope you can bear the wait.

Here is a very rare Sunday story presented by our first South American contributor Carlos from Brazil. Thanks a lot for making this available to all of us. A hearty welcome to you.
Hope we can one day be able to read all the Sundays and Dailies in English.

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#170: D047 Cinderella of the Sea From 22 Mar 1948 to 17 Jul 1948

2010-04-20T22:13:00.004-10:00

Been busy with stuff lately. Here is another good daily. Thanks to Tom Williams for sharing these. I filled in some missing ones and was lucky enough to get them.
Enjoy...

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#169: D046 The Ghost Plane From 5 Jan 1948 To 20 Mar 1948

2010-04-03T21:19:00.007-10:00

Presenting a never before read story again, this time Mandrake finds himself in an action packed adventure trying to find the identity of an unknown plane. Thrilling story that has a great ending. Narda and Lothar are on a dangerous trip above in the ghost plane and make the story interesting. I wish they could come up with such story lines nowadays.

Let me know if you liked this story. This has been a contribution from Tom Williams, who has been generous to share these scans from Toronto Star newspapers. Many thanks to him from all of us.

Does anyone have a subscription to the archives? Many dailies stories I have are in different languages, but if English scans are available, it would help. I think the archives of Toronto Star have these, not one of the greatest sources as the scans are just readable and we can at least complete reading the stories for those of us who can only read English... it is sad since publishers in Italian, Swedish, French, Serbian and others produced many stories which English readers cannot read them to enjoy. Let me know if you would like to help.

I hope someone is out there to trying find a way to translate comic strips in other languages to English and those non english readers must be having the same issue trying to find a way to convert English into the language of their choice. There has to be a software solution to do this.

What do you think?

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Enhanced Scans For S066 Universal Love From 29 May 1955 To 7 Aug 1955

2010-04-02T08:06:00.003-10:00

Thanks to Myron again, he has provided a set of his enhanced scans of this story.

You can download them here.

#168: D011 Mandrake in Hollywood From 31 Jan 1938 To 2 Apr 1938

2010-03-31T09:13:00.006-10:00

Here is another classic daily for those folks who may have missed reading this. I liked the ending in this daily. Enjoy. Thanks to an unknown scanner.

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#167: S066 Universal Love From 29 May 1955 To 7 Aug 1955

2010-03-30T08:10:00.011-10:00

How often can one witness aliens being wed on Earth?
An interesting sunday story published by Egmont, scanned by Ajay Mishra. Many thanks to him for providing this story. Enjoy. Nice story line and art work.

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#166: D010 Mandrake in America From 13 Sep 1937 To 29 Jan 1938

2010-03-26T10:24:00.005-10:00

Here is an old classic strip that readers can enjoy for those of you who have not read this yet. Thanks to an unknown scanner. Lothar shows amazing skills in fighting a lion and the part I really liked was that lion having a few gallons of wine, had never heard of it. Lee Falk was indeed a very good story teller. Enjoy.

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#165: S166 The Million Dollar Tour From 20 Oct 1991 To 19 Apr 1992

2010-03-24T08:49:00.006-10:00

While we all want to see more magic, why not read a comic strip where Mandrake performs magic tricks to help a Children's Hospital. This is one of the more recent Sundays Strips that is complete and available in English. Many thanks to Magnus for providing these scans. Enjoy.

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S067 Magnetic Island 14 Aug 1955 20 Nov 1955 Enhanced Scans

2010-03-22T07:21:00.003-10:00

Many Thanks to Myron for enhancing the quality of the scans. The scans have been brightened and colors appear better in this version.
Here is the link to download the story.

#164: KING Comics #9 The Terror From Outer Space

2010-03-18T10:12:00.005-10:00

Presenting yet another classic a must have for Mandrake Fans (or Phans as the case maybe).
Nice fictional stuff. Thanks to an unknown scanner and Ajnaabi for sharing this. Lothar is only shown on the cover.

Page 29 has a section called Secrets of Magic and I liked the way it is written for a novice person learning Magic tricks. I ought to learn some magic to entertain my kids sometimes when mommy is busy working. My son loves magic. I will ask him to read this for sure.

There is also a small strip of Brick Bradford. It appears he looks so much similar to Flash Gordon.

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#163: KING Comics #8 The Telltale Doll

2010-03-16T07:06:00.005-10:00

Here is remaining set of the unfinished KING Comic series #8. Many Thanks to an unknown scanner and thanks to Ajnaabi for sending this as well. Nice plot and good color. Enjoy.

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#162: D045 Sky Acres From 3 Nov 1947 to 3 Jan 1948

2010-03-14T00:14:00.005-10:00

Mandrake confronts Desiree, the richest and the most beautiful woman in the world at that time. He causes her to become bankrupt and go into foreclosure, all in a matter of few days, because of her arrogance. Nice story, enjoy, these scans are from Toronto Star Daily, readable scans, if someone has any better quality, let me know. It is very difficult to come across very good scans of these early strips. Thanks to Tom Williams for the scans.

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#161: D009 In the Cobra's Grip From 19 Apr 1937 to 11 Sep 1937

2010-03-12T20:57:00.004-10:00

Here is another classic that every Mandrake Fan will enjoy having a copy and one of the best early stories I have read. Thanks to an unknown scanner and Tom Williams for sending this to me. The plot is very good and it is filled with suspense and adventure till the end. Enjoy. Only part I don't like is Lothar being introduced as a servant. I am amazed at how Lee Falk envisioned the power of hypnotism. Was he interested to become a hypnotist? I also wonder if there is any publisher out there thinking of printing these stories. What a collection one could have if they were available.

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#160: D024 The Mystery of the Striped Orchid From April 7, 1941 to June 21, 1941

2010-03-10T23:33:00.004-10:00

Here is another good classic that every Mandrake Fan will want to read. Hope you will like it. Thanks to an unknown scanner.

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#159: D258 Idol With No Name From 2009.08.03 to 2010.03.06

2010-03-06T23:45:00.009-10:00

Here i s the latest daily having Mandrake face the wheel man from the Land of X and Derek. Very nice plot. Enjoy. Thanks to KFS and Fred Fredericks. Does anyone know if there are plans by any publisher to produce Mandrake comics?

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#158: D247 - Footsteps from the Past 02-23-2004 to 08-14-2004

2010-03-03T19:28:00.007-10:00

Here's a good one. Liked the part where Mandrake tricks the Police Chief. Thanks to KFS. See the transition from B/W to Color. Grando story never appeared in Indrajal comics I think. Pioneer comics had the story published in #15, will post that later. Enjoy the nice plot. A very dangerous adversary to Mandrake.

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#157: D064 The Conquerors From 17 Sep 1951 To 17 Nov 1951

2010-02-26T11:14:00.005-10:00

Have you ever heard of Googies? The unknown conquerors of the Earth.

Many thanks to Myron and Rick Hy for making available another Mandrake daily story to those of us who could never have read them anywhere. I do not think it appeared in any comic books either. Let me know if it did.

This is another good daily, where Mandrake is overwhelmed by little people. After reading this story everybody will be on the lookout for little people whom we can barely see. Never knew or read this story before. Little people can cause problems for bigger people.

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#156: S067 Magnetic Island 14 Aug 1955 20 Nov 1955

2010-02-20T22:37:00.006-10:00

Here's another nice Sunday scanned by Ajay Mishra, many thanks to Ajay for providing the scans. This was published by Egmont along with a Phantom story, don't remember the title.

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#155: S184 The Bank Mystery From 18 Mar 2001 To 22 Jul 2001

2010-02-19T06:44:00.006-10:00

Hi Folks,
Hope the new year is giving you folks a good time so far. It is hard not to post a Mandrake strip when you have just read one that I did not know I had. Life's been too busy for me with work & kids activities. Just wanted to start posting again. Hope you will like this one. All the panels are not complete in this story as my friend Magnus could only find so much. Many Thanks to Magnus for sharing the scans.
If any of you have the complete strip please send me a copy and I will appreciate your contributions.
Enjoy.

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#154: D126 Return of the Mirror People From 24 Aug 1964 To 2 Jan 1965

2009-11-19T14:13:00.011-10:00

Many Thanks to John Weathers for sharing this story. You will need a mirror to enjoy this story. Thanks to Terry Hill a long time Mandrake Fan and collector for coming up with the last 2 panels to complete the story.

Have this story in color in better scan quality, but not in English. Will put that one up as well. If any of you come across better scans of this story, please do send me. Thanks.

D126 Return of the Mirror People From 24 Aug 1964 To 2 Jan 1965

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#153: S186 Return of the Tourist From 9 Dec 2001 To 12 May 2002

2009-11-10T08:34:00.004-10:00

Many Thanks to Rick Hy for sharing these with Mandrake fans around the world. Enjoy.
Wanted to post this in May but never found time to do it.

S186 Return of the Tourist From 9 Dec 2001 To 12 May 2002

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#152: D148 Magic Man From 13 Sep 1971 To 18 Dec 1971

2009-11-05T22:11:00.004-10:00

Howdy Folks.....

Am back again. Looked up this story in my library and found it interesting. Hope you will like it.
Enjoy. Thanks to Magnus for sharing this story.

Does Anyone have stories D146 & D147 in English? Appreciate sharing them.

146	Narda and The Cats	8 Mar 1971	29 May 1971	12
147	The Wonder that Amazed the World	31 May 1971	11 Sep 1971	15

D148_Magic_Man_13 Sep 1971_18 Dec 1971

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#151: D-257 One Wizard Too Many From 2008.12.15 to 2009.08.01

2009-09-08T20:15:00.005-10:00

Hi Folks,
Long time since I posted a story. Most of you may have read this but just wanted to post something after a long gap caused by many reasons. Nevertheless passion for reading Mandrake is always there within. I think many of the frequent visitors must have deserted the blog. Enjoy.

One Wizard Too Many

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#150: Diamond Comics No.33 & No.34 The Duplicate President

2009-05-29T11:19:00.003-10:00

Presenting some Diamond Comics scans provided by the very familiar pioneer Ajay Mishra. Thanks a lot. Enjoy. This post marks the 150th comic post.
DiamondComics33&34_TheDuplicate

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#149: KING Comics #7 Jungle Drums

2009-05-26T10:11:00.007-10:00

Here's another KING release #7 Lothar's story. Enjoy.

Mandrake the Magician Jungle Drums

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#148: KING Comics #6 Incredible Space Menace

2009-05-19T21:50:00.009-10:00

Another interesting story from King Comics, has been released as an Indrajal Comic.
Thanks to an unknown Mandrake fan for scanning this. Enjoy.

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#147: S094 The Castaway From 26 Jan 1964 To 9 Aug 1964

2009-05-15T07:49:00.004-10:00

Thanks to Myron & Rick Hy for sharing this story. Missing one sunday, not a problem. Very good story indeed. Enjoy

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#146: S094 - The Castaway -La Tierra en Peligro in Spanish

2009-05-14T06:03:00.002-10:00

Many Thanks to Emile Schwarz for sending this one. Nice sunday story. Enjoy.

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#145:D090 The Chess Kings From 24 Dec 1956 To 2 Mar 1957

2009-05-12T11:54:00.009-10:00

Presenting another nice daily story about the Kings of Gambita & Philador, the cousins who we saw in the previous post and their madness for the game of Chess. Thanks a ton to Myron and Rick Hy for providing the scans.

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#144: KING Comics #5 Cape Cod Caper & The Fear Mongers

2009-05-10T16:23:00.012-10:00

Presenting a King Features release. Thanks to an unknown scanner. Mandrake encounters Pirates from sea and air. 2 Nice stories. Enjoy. I wish there was Mandrake patrolling the Somali seas where piracy is flourishing.

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#143: S150 The Cloud Men From 27 Feb 1983 To 4 Sep 1983

2009-05-08T11:51:00.007-10:00

Another interesting sunday story, Mandrke with the anti gravity belt and the cloud men, what a concept. Enjoy. Scans provided by the pioneer Ajay Mishra. Thanks a lot.

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#142: S085 Sky Raid From 11 Dec 1960 to 5 Feb 1961

2009-05-06T10:41:00.009-10:00

Presenting a classic sunday story compliments of Myron & Rick. Enjoyed the story. I hope you do as well. Narda is taken as a hostage and has an active role in this story.

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News of Yore 1949: Mandrake Art a Family Affair From a Blog

2009-05-06T06:58:00.008-10:00

Very Nice Article on Phil & Martha Davis's Work from http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/

Interesting to know how Mandrake comic strip survived through all those tough years.

Thanks to Thomas Grimaldi for emailing me the article... I thought this warrants to have a post by itself.

Found a good link on Phil Davis: http://lambiek.net/artists/d/davis_p.htm

Some More info from s9.com:

1906 - born on the 4th of March in St. Louis, Missouri.

- Davis became interested in drawing when he was six years old. "I had a mania for parades," he recalled. "I drew every parade I could see.

- His first professional artwork was for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and he left the newspaper to do magazine illustrations and advertising art before eventually landing at King Features Syndicate.

1934 - He met Lee Falk, the two collaborated on Mandrake the Magician.

- One of Davis' assistants was Ray Moore, who later became the first artist on Falk's other comic strip, The Phantom.

1964 - Davis died.

News of Yore 1949: Mandrake and Narda Look Like Creators

by Ogden J. Rochelle (E&P, 1/22/49)

Cartoonists often draw heroes (i.e. principal characters) that resemble themselves.

This statement is trite, with varying degrees of accuracy, but it is doubly true in the case of "Mandrake the Magician," drawn for King Features Syndicate by Phil Davis.

Not only can Davis put on silk topper and cloak and pass for Mandrake, but Mrs. Davis can slip into one of the fashionable frocks of Narda, the heroine, and Mandrake fans would see the resemblance.

Mrs. Davis, as a matter of fact, often draws Narda. An artist in her own right, and a fashion illustrator for a St. Louis department store until early in War II, Martha Davis got in the habit of drawing Narda—and sometimes the entire strip — when her husband was working with the Curtiss-Wright Corp., illustrating Air Force manuals.

"Without her help," says Davis, "Mandrake probably would have folded."

Mrs. Davis enjoyed her work on the strip so much she stayed on after the War. Now the couple produce it as a joint effort, but Phil usually does Mandrake and Martha usually does Narda. They work in a studio in downtown St. Louis, move out into the Ozarks in the Summer.

The strip was hatched when Lee Falk, a St. Louis advertising agency executive, asked Davis to draw a dozen panels on a speculative basis. Davis agreed and in 1934 Falk took the idea to New York and sold it. Falk has continued to supply the continuity. Artist and continuity writer are no longer geographically close. Falk, now a New Yorker, spends his summers in Massachusetts, where he is co-owner of Cambridge Summer Theater.

Mandrake is another strip with double-appeal—to the men for adventure action, and to the women because of the accurate modishness of Narda's wardrobe.

Davis denies any resemblance, especially Mandrake's lust for strenuous exercise.

"When I get the desire to exercise," he says, "I just lie down for awhile until it passes."

#141: D255 The Unknown Island From 2008.01.07 to 2008.06.14

2009-05-04T16:06:00.005-10:00

Here's an another recent daily of Fred Fredricks. Narda comes through dangers in her trip without Mandrake's help. Another one of those stories where Narda has a major role. Enjoy.

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Missing Strips in the Bookworm Story...

2009-05-04T06:37:00.009-10:00

I did not realize I had 4 days strips missing in the Bookworm story. Emile Schwarz has provided me the strips and here they are. Thanks a lot for the research and providing the missing strips.

The missing strips are Mandrake_2008-06-17.gif, Mandrake_2008-06-21.gif, Mandrake_2008-07-11.gif and Mandrake_2008-08-30.gif

I hope all of you know how to include them into the CBR file. If not, let me know and I can help you.

#140: Mandrake & L'uomo Mascherato Italian Scans

2009-05-01T08:33:00.013-10:00

Presenting Italian scans I came across looking for Mandrake. Thanks to Unknown scanners.
The book has 2 Phantom stories and 1 Mandrake Daily. Nice coloring...

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Since, I have the Mandrake Daily D010 in English , I am going to post it here as many people may not know Italian.

D010 - Mandrake in America 09-13-1937 to 01-29-1938

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#139: S182 High Climb to Danger From 4 Jun 2000 To 24 Sep 2000

2009-04-29T03:40:00.005-10:00

Presenting a Mandrake Sunday compliments of Magnus. Many thanks for scanning and sharing.
Mandrake's great adventure to go to Xanadu by foot. What a trip to go through all those obstacles to keep away villians and he has to find a way to get through them to reach Narda.
Interesting story. Enjoy.

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#138: Indrajal Comic 146 Mandrake and the Cobra (High Quality Scans)

2009-04-24T12:22:00.007-10:00

One of the old Indrajal Comics, I believe the first of the Cobra adventures. Enjoy.

Thanks to Venkit for scanning the comic in higher scan resolution.
Cover scanned by Ajay Mishra & Chandoba, added some photoshop effect.

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Ennio Morricone The Maestro

2009-04-24T09:09:00.003-10:00

Enjoy the great music of Ennio Morricone...Thanks to Tom Williams for letting me know of this blog. A very nice blog indeed and a must visit site for all Morricone fans.

http://enniomorricone-ilmaestro.blogspot.com/

#137: Happy Earth Day To All Visitors

2009-04-21T19:22:00.018-10:00

Wishing you all a very Happy Earth Day. I have some fantastic news to report. The blog's attempt to reach out to individuals having rare stories and panels of Mandrake has paid off I feel. I am very lucky to be able to get in touch with those elite few. Please join me in welcoming 2 new contributors Einar johnskås from Norway and John Weathers from US.

John has been kind enough to share the return of the mirror people story in English from his collection and will be made available here soon after Indrajal Comics are completed. Thanks a lot. Einar johnskås has been able to locate the first 2 weeks of Lothar the Champ story in English!!! Many thanks to him for his efforts and in sharing his treasure.

So, on Earth day this year, how are you celebrating? Recycling or walking somewhere instead of driving or trying to find ways to reduce your carbon footprint? I know how I am going to contribute, by not printing anything today and going to drive less today. I recycle as much as I can and encourage my kids to do the same.

Ohh I forgot, the blog visits has crossed 100,000!!!
Many Thanks to ALL readers and contributors that have made the blog a success. Keep visiting and let us have a goodtime reading a story.... Scans provided by Ajay Mishra, the pioneer contributor. Many Thanks for your time.

V22N23_1985_Mandrake_the_Predator_Star

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Found this nice document and thought why not include this on Earth Day post. Indeed some excellent photos by Astronaut Sunita Williams. Many thanks to the person who has shared this on Scribd.
Pictures of Earth
Pictures of Earth Kosla Vepa Awesome

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New Blog Created For Three Investigators....

2009-04-20T20:22:00.003-10:00

Announcing a new blog for reading three investigators stories online, always wanted to do this.

Have you read this series?

Here is the first post. The Secret of Terror Castle. Enjoy...

#136 D256 Beware The BookWorm From June 16, 2008 To Dec 13th, 2008 Enjoy Online

2009-04-17T06:31:00.012-10:00

Trying a new thing from Scribd.com. Let me know if you like this format as compared to uploading each file into imageshack.

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Need some scans 8 pages in English to have the comic book completed.

2009-04-14T10:51:00.017-10:00

ONE MORE UPDATE: Biblioteka Nostalgija Post has been updated. I had it wrongly labelled as Yugoslav Mandrake. Anon visitor has corrected me. It is Serbian Mandrake. Thanks for pointing it out.

UPDATED:
Indrajal Comic Vol 22 No. 39 The Claws of Treachery is now available.

Today is the The Comic Project Blog's 4th Anniversary. Please visit the blog and congratulate the author for his efforts in scanning and bringing the Indrajal Comics to the web and make it available to the fans.

A lot of the comic scans were made available to him later were from Ajay Mishra.
Many thanks to him as always.

http://thecomicproject.blogspot.com/2009/04/comic-236-mandrake-claws-of-treachery.html

These scans are contributions from Tom Williams who has just retired and is enjoying his retirement by listening to music and watching movies. Nice Life, Enjoy.

Unfortunately his copy is missing these pages. Does Anyone have these 8 pages in English? If so, a monthly magazine of Pioneer would be complete, I have the remaining pages in English. I really would appreciate your contribution.

From The Xanadu Web Site the scans are part of the daily strip md-027 or D-026(deepwoods) :

Lothar the Wrestler - part 1 issue 1 1989 md-027 Lothar the Champ

md-027 D-026 Lothar the Champ From 1941.11.10 To 1942.07.11 35 Weeks

Also please tell me what language these are in if you know. Thanks.

#135: Indrajal Comic Vol 20 No 32 The Avaricious Prince

2009-04-10T09:46:00.006-10:00

Presenting yet another masterpiece from Ajay Mishra. Thanks to him for his time and initiative.

Enjoy.

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#134: Indrajal Comics Vol 22 No 50 and Vol 22 No 51 The Evil Genius Parts 1 & 2

2009-04-10T08:49:00.006-10:00

Presenting some treasures provided by the Indrajal Comcs Pioneer Ajay Mishra.

Many many thanks to him for taking the time to scan and making the scans available for the Mandrake Fan Community.

The time has come for all of us to start enjoying these treasures now and we the bloggers are all on pace to see completion of the Indrajal Comics project very soon. Exciting news for the readers I bet.

Download V22N50-1985-Mandrake-The Evil Genius Part I.cbr

Password is PM420WHYSCANWHENUCANSTEAL

NOTE TO PM AND PEOPLE LIKE HIM: PASSWORD IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE AT BLOG AUTHOR'S DISCRETION (So, WHOEVER YOU MAY BE YOU better start thinking twice before stealing the link and the password)

Download V22N51-1985-Mandrake-The Evil Genius Part II.cbr

Password is READBUTDONTSTEALFROMBLOGS

NOTE TO PM AND PEOPLE LIKE HIM: PASSWORD IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE AT BLOG AUTHOR'S DISCRETION (So, WHOEVER YOU MAY BE YOU better start thinking twice before stealing the link and the password)

#133: Indrajal Comic Vol 22 No 37 The Weird Bank Robberies (Reprinted version of No 155)

2009-04-09T10:22:00.010-10:00

Have you heard, the SCI FI channel is doing a project on Phantom. Why can't someone portray Phantom the way the world knows him for the last 70 years?

Take a look....

http://io9.com/5203921/syfy-modernizes-bastardizes-the-phantom

Presenting an Indrajal compliments of Ajay Mishra, thanks for scanning this excellent story. The Indrajal #155 was posted here as well in case you missed it.

http://mandrake-comics.blogspot.com/2007/11/068-indrajal-comic-no155-flying-saucers.html

Enjoy by downloading now...

What's Happening I don't provide download link last post now I do, hmmmm, you know what to do.

Download V22N37-1985-Mandrake-The Weird Bank Robberies (Reprinted version of 155)

Password: The Weird Bank Robberies

#132: S181 The Trick Stealer From 6 Feb 2000 to 28 May 2000

2009-04-07T09:53:00.007-10:00

I am so bored with all the discussions going on regarding stealing links, copyright issues, fights getting personal and so on. If I hear from KFS I will ask them to please provide me a copy of all the stories published and only then I will shut this blog if they persist as these stories are not available for me to read even in libraries. Speaking of Libraries I will have another post about this later. This story was provided to me by Magnus, many thanks to him for scanning and making them available. He has promised me more later.
Enjoy the story. I liked this story.
Thanks to Imageshack so that we can read online. No need for download links, hahahahahaha so much for the PM blog.

Where Is the Download Link ????
It is up to you now.....hahahahahaha What do you think PM/Manish/Anyone and what are you going to do now?????? LMAO

Have a burning question inside me, Can you help?

2009-04-06T07:04:00.007-10:00

Thought of putting this question as a comment. Decided to make it a post, as many people may not wish to see or read comments (such as the Invisible Thief/PM/MANISH SRIVASTAV??(don't know him/her/it)/anybody else.

I am about to begin a post thanking the Invisible Thief (he/she/it). I hope people are not going to be angry at me. I do not want any curse on me please.

Thanks to PM/MANISH SRIVASTAV/Anybody (he/she/it) for exposing our vulnerability that is the willingness to share our comic treasures freely which we all love and we do that by spending our time and resources. None of us are compensated for what we do. It can also be a thankless job if people don't take a couple of minutes to comment when it takes a couple of hours to scan and post it. Why are we doing it? I don't like what I am about to say, I am thinking we should all stop sharing our treasure (ease of providing download links) to the rest of the world.
Guess what, eventually somebody will sell these scans in some format or another and it may already be happening. I am beginning to understand the value of private comic sharing clubs now.Some folks pay money for providing an FTP server and owner of the group provides access to the team. The server costs are shared by all for a nominal annual fee.

Why not create such a team? The only problem is who takes the initiative and how commited can that team be? The last one I joined did not have many Mandrake fans and they had no material to scan. The group was primarily devoted to Phantom & other characters. I will not name the group publicly but you know who. The owner is one of the greatest Phans I have come across and I will always remember his efforts.

Luckily Indrajal comic fans are plenty and have the material for scanning. Now that Indrajal comics are almost done, where do I find a team having interest in Mandrake scans?
At least, I have a few books and good contributors. That was the reason I started this blog to get Mandrake Fans come together and build the library with time. I did not expect thieving minds to take away the download links and post them elsewhere (without my consent)

Sure, scanning a comic can be considered plagiarism if and only if I am using the story as a template to create a new version or any story using those characters and if I sell that story and make some money without giving any to King Features. I do not think we are falling into that category. I hope somebody who knows more can enlighten us.

In that aspect, the blog from now on will need to just talk about the comic or the story and all sharing has to be off limits to such blogs that the Invisible Thief or people like him wants to gain from us. Let me know if this will be the right approach. I am sorry for the genuine comic fan but there are other ways.

My question to the Invisible Thief is he/she/it created the blog for people who come to just download and later may sell it he/she/it is making it even more easier, WHY?
Unless he/she/it is one among them.

The Good The Bad and The Ugly by Ennio Morricone

2009-04-03T11:29:00.005-10:00

Many of you have read what has been happening. It does not mean the end of this blog.
People like PM has shown his true colors. Isn't it? It does not matter to me. The aim of this project has not changed. I have different ways of tackling the links issue. While myself and other friends are working out the logistics, this is a good break time for me to consolidate my contributors scans and organize them.

There is a saying in Kannada (Nayi boghaladare, deva loka hallayatha?) means some dog barks, is the heaven affected? You are what you are, PM.

Also, it brings me to share some music that I happened to find on my hard drives. The movie is one of my favorites and although I have seen it 20 times it is forever refreshing.
Now let's see if he wants to post these links as well.... (I could care much less for his blogging)

Better yet I have a great project for him if he is interested. Why not go to each and every comic blog or site in the world and compile a universal comics listing and compile a global comics list that includes the language, the scans if available and where available, the resolution quality, location of the physical comic, who the publisher is, when it was published, and much more information and you get the idea. If you don't email me. Have this all loaded in a searchable database that every comic fan (an avid reader like you) would love to access and read. This can give you a life besides going after compiling download links from a few blogs. What do you say, avid reader, I hope you understand what I am saying that is GET A LIFE AND USE SOME COMMON SENSE TO COME UP WITH YOUR OWN IDEA FOR BLOGGING.

The Good part is we are all united against PM the link stealer. The Bad part is PM and his cheap concept of stealing links from existing blogs, the UGLY part is all other fans are affected by his actions. At least thanks for the warning, because forewarned is forearmed. Remember that quote from Indrajal comics? He is like the Trick Stealer the Sunday Mandrake story which I enjoyed, will provide later on.

I am ready for the weekend I hope everyone will have some peace and quiet.
Time to enjoy some music that I love and would like to share.

Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Expanded
01 - Il Buono, Il Cattivo, Il Brutto (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly) (Main Title)
02 - Il Tramonto (The Sundown)
03 - Sentenza
04 - Fuga A Cavallo
05 - Il Ponte Di Corde
06 - Il Forte (The Strong)
07 - Inseguimento
08 - Il Deserto (The Desert)
09 - La Carrozza Dei Fantasmi (The Carriage Of The Spirits)
10 - La Missione San Antonio
11 - Padre Ramirez
12 - Marcetta (Marcia)
13 - La Storia De Un Soldato (The Story Of A Soldier)
14 - Il Treno Militare
15 - Fine Di Una Spia
16 - Il Bandito Monco
17 - Due Contro Cinque
18 - Marcetta Senza Speranza (Marcia Without Hope)
19 - Morte Di Un Soldato (The Death Of A Soldier)
20 - L'estasi Dell'oro (The Ecstasy Of Gold)
21 - Il Triello [The Trio) (Main Title)

No More Download Links...Sorry Readers I hope you will agree with what I am about to do

2009-04-02T10:49:00.006-10:00

It is been painful to hear that an Invisible Thief has been lurking from the past couple of days maybe a few months went into his planning on how to steal from comic blogs and eventually kill them. If you read my last post did I not give you a hint that I will reveal it later. So here comes the Invisible Thief AKA Peeyoush Mishra who has had plenty of comments for his "great work" of stealing download links and putting them in his blog for which a great deal of effort goes in. He may be reading it and playing aloof. I would like to let him know a little history first. This effort of providing comics online is not done with any compensation of any kind, it is done purely out of love for reading the comics we all grew up with.
It used to be so hard to afford a comic given that pocket money/allowance which we got was in limited quantity and was never enough to buy as many as we could. Eventually, we would borrow/exchange from friends and build our collection of comics.
I remember at one time I had about 200 comics mostly Phantom & Mandrake, but in the process of moving houses, changing schools, my collection vanished and now have a few left. I got hooked on to reading online comics with the one and only blog that offered it, you guessed it, The Comic Project, it was so much fun trying to be the first one to comment and a healthy discussion of current events, comic storyline, sports, etc. I came across Misraji ("The Pioneer Ajay Mishra") in reading his scans and wanted to get in touch with him someday. Eventually we crossed our paths and I am forever greatful for all his efforts in making them available to people like me who had no Indrajals while in the US. Then came the ICC blog which was a daily ritual to visit during lunch time to get more of Indrajals. At that point I saw there was no site dedicated for Mandrake Comic strips and hence started this project. I have been very lucky to come across several contributors and friends with similiar interests and it has taken a long time to build a community that is actively involved in pursuit of acquiring as many dailies and sundays we can find. Mandrake comic strips have not been as popular and readily available as compared to the Phantom because of the fan base and more publishers willing to publish those strips.
I then started hunting what I could find and even started buying on EBay, again was lucky to get a considerable set of books, some of which I have scanned and posted. In the process of building this fan community I came across a few contributors who came forward to provide me scans for this project, whom I would not have come across if this blog did not exist. The end result is we have all been enjoying reading various sundays & dailies stories & Indrajals. I have also gotten in contact with new friends who have a similar liking. It's been an enjoyable ride until now.

Now comes Invisible Thief AKA Peeyoush Mishra who intends to put only the download links of any comics he finds from the different blogs hosting Indrajal comics and strips into his blog attempting to create a mirror because he is too lazy to go to each blog and read about a comic or strip and then download it from that blog. To me, it means he does not value the efforts taken by the owner of the comic or strip to scan each page, perform some cleanup to make it more readable/enjoyable, upload files and finally provide a download link. It is like taking the icing out of the cake. I have emailed him and left comments on his "blog" and have no respnses.

So, to conclude, am not going to provide any download links on the blog as it does not justify the time and true efforts of the contributors and myself from now on. I can be reached by email you all know and is listed on the blog. Please contact me and I will provide you depending on whether I can trust you to not deliver the link to the Invisible Thief. I knew this would happen sooner or later as there are these folks who just want to download the strip and move on without any consideration to thank and appreciate the efforts taken by the scanner and the blogger.

Mandrake The Magician: #131: Indrajal Comic Vol 22 No 29 The Invisible Thief

2009-04-01T11:26:00.000-10:00

Mandrake The Magician: #131: Indrajal Comic Vol 22 No 29 The Invisible Thief

#131: Indrajal Comic Vol 22 No 29 The Invisible Thief

2009-04-01T11:00:00.005-10:00

Presenting another marvellous set of high quality scans from Ajay Mishra, this time the invisible thief. Never know when you may encounter him, matter of fact he may be hiding behind you....
Will reveal who it may be later. For now, enjoy the comic. Many thanks to Ajay Mishra for his relentless effort to scan all Indrajals and move on to other projects. I had always hoped I would someday see high quality scans of this comic.

Download V22N29-1985-Mandrake-The Invisible Thief

#130: Indrajal Comic Vol 25 No 36 The Captive Sleuths

2009-03-31T06:15:00.010-10:00

UPDATE: The Phantom Comic Strips Blog (http://phantomcomicstrips.blogspot.com/) will no longer be updated....(Not an Apr 1 Joke) . Thanks to all who uploaded files and Mediafire for allowing bandwidth to download.

Presenting another Indrajal scan from Ajay Mishra, the story is nice and it takes the duo of captive sleuths to capture the Loan Shark. At a time, when there is a credit crunch for businesses in the current economy, such loan sharks may exist today. Beware of Unscrupulous Lending!!!! Many thanks to Ajay Mishra, once again for providing so many scans.
Quiz Time: Can Anyone Solve Question 2 on Page 30? Nice question indeed. Take a guess and let me know as well.

Download Indrajal Comic Vol 25 No 36 The Captive Sleuths

#129: S180 Rumble on the Road 17 Oct 1999 to 30 Jan 2000 16 Weeks

2009-03-30T11:23:00.004-10:00

Good news to report. A new contributor Richard Hy has taken pains to scan the complete story that was not available to me a few weeks ago. Thanks a lot for all your efforts.
This is the same story posted in #118. Magnus will be very happy to read this story.
Here is the complete story. Enjoy.

Download S180 Rumble on the Road From 17 Oct 1999 To 30 Jan 2000