A CHRONICLE OF RESEARCH AND MUSINGS ON PRE-WAR & WARTIME COMICS & COMICS TIE-INS (Note: Unless otherwise noted, all Turkish and British editions referred to in this blog are from my personal collection. I kindly expect proper references to this blog when using info on and scans of the Turkish and the British editions posted here. I myself care to list the sources I use with regards to background info.)
Thursday, November 26, 2009
DEBUT OF MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN COMICS IN TURKEY
Mandrake the Magician's Turkish debut came in 1935, less than a year after the strip's debut in the US. A weekly actuality magazine titled Büyük Gazete began to serialize Mandrake in its back covers beginning with its no. 30 on 13.5.1935. This makes Mandrake's Turkish debut one of the earliest known appearance of this hero outside newspapers anywhere in the world.
Below are scans of the beginning of Mandrake's first-ever adventure from its Turkish edition in Büyük Gazete, featuring the first-ever appearances of not only Mandrake and Lothar, but also of their arch-nemesis Cobra.
I'm proud to say: no. :-) Mandrake apparead first in Italy, with this story, beginning on weekly magazine "L'Avventuroso", from no. 15 (january 20, 1935). In the next future on my blog (www.annitrenta.blogspot.com)
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Leonardo
Thnx for the tip. I've revised my wording as "one of the earliest". cheers
ReplyDeleteThanks to you. Wonderful blog, very interesting, with a lot of never seen before material.
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Leonardo
Hello!
ReplyDeleteAs promised, the first italian edition of Mandrake, in early 1935, on my blog:
http://annitrenta.blogspot.com/2010/05/lavventuroso-6-arriva-mandrake-1935.html
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