Mandrake the Magician 2 (Miller)
| Mandrake the Magician #2 Illustrated Comic | |
 Cover artist: unknown | |
| Country/language: |  United Kingdom / English
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| Format: | 18.5 × 24.5 cm |
| Pages: | 68 pgs, b/w |
| Publishing date: | 1958 |
| Editor: | unknown |
| Publishing company: | L. Miller & Son |
| Preceded by: | issue 1 |
| Followed by: | issue 3 |
The cover is printed by The Manton Press, Baylis Road, London S.E.1. The text is printed by the Monument Press, 270 North Circular Road, Dublin.
Contents
Mandrake stories
- "The Chess Kings" ("The Chess Kings") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
- "Lothar's Day" ("Lothar's Day") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
- "The Western" ("The Western") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
Indication of the release date
This issue was released without a publishing date on the cover or inside, but is likely released autumn 1958.
The L. Miller triangle
When the son (Arnold Miller) left his fathers company in 1959 Leonard Miller changed the company name from "L. Miller & Son" to "L. Miller & Co".
The 291 issues (from the week ending March 14, 1959) of "Marvelman" and "Young Marvelman" both have "L. Miller & Son" and the 294 issues (from the week ending April 4, 1959) have "L. Miller & Co".
One can also see the triangle changes from Son to Co at other series like "Kid Montana" (issues 55 vs 56), "Maverick Marshal" (issues 51 vs 52) and "Front-Line Combat" (2 vs 3), to name a few others.
Ad
Stamps
The Mandrake issue has an ad from Broadway Approvals for a start package for collecting stamps.
Broadway Approvals has the adress: 486 Old Kent Rd. London. The address they had until January 1959, when they moved to 50 Denmark Hill. London. The lot W1 have:
- a Large Stamp Album
- Imported collection of stamps, 57 different: Monaco - Grace Kelly Wedding, French Antartica - First stamp from fantastic new country!, China - Great Wall Airmail, IT. Somalia - Flowers, Ethopia - Red X, Estonia - Nazi Dorpat, Red China - Imperf. The newest stamps here are from 1956.
- the "Midget Encyclopædia of stamps"
- Australia - 1956 Olympic Seals
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lot W1 -
Stamp Album -
1956 OL - red print -
1956 French Antarctica -
1956 Monaco
The same ad is used in other comics like: "Jim Bowie" #17, "Marvelman Family" #23 (at GCD #30 is said issued in November 1959), "Pancho Villa" #55 and "Western Kid" #17.