Super Albo / Special Mandrake
| Super Albo Special Mandrake | |
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| Country/language: |  Italy / Italian
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| Publishing company: | Edizioni Fratelli Spada |
| Publishing years: | 1962–1967 |
| Issues: | 157 + 37 |
| Format: | 17×24 cm, b/w & color |
Super Albo was a series of comic books published by the Italian publisher Fratelli Spada from January 1962 to February 1967.
Issue overview
Super Albo
The series is album-like where the covers are made of thicker cardboard and the format size was 17 × 24 cm with 64 or 80 pages.
The main stories and the sub titles alternated between "The Phantom" and "Mandrake" in every other issue with Mandrake in the even numbers. Almost all issues featured reprints of American newspapers stories, mainly daily stories. Up to issue 24 the stories were "redrawn" (16, 18, 20, 22 and 48) and "Lucidanto" (polished) by Domenico Mirabella. The issues also contained reprints of other comic like "Tim Tyler's Luck", "Rip Kirby" and so on.
After issue 157, Mandrake was spun off into a new series with the title Special Mandrake while the Super Albo series continued printing only "The Phantom".
The series has a supplemental subseries using the same layout but containing the first twenty-two stories featuring Rip Kirby. These were published monthly, starting in October 1963 and ending with issue twenty in June 1965.
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1963
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issue 27
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1964
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issue 119
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issue 157
The Phantom
Special Mandrake
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1967
Super Albo - Raccolta
The Super Albo - Raccolta was unsold copies from the Super Albo / Special Mandrake series glued together and with a new cover. At least two supplement album was released as a supplementary album in the "I Giganti" series.
