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The '''San Francisco Examiner''' is an [[USA|American]] newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and published since 1863 as a media of Hearst Corporation chain since 1880. 
It published "[[Mandrake the Magician]]" [[daily strip]] from November 12, 1934 (illustrated announcement the day before) to April 10, 1959 and [[Sunday strip]] from February 3, 1935 to October 30, 1960.

==Published daily strips stories==
The Mandrake strips started in the 6 colums format, splitted into two half and printed spanning 3 columns. 
{| {{table}} 
!# !!Original story title!! Start date !! End date !! Comment
|-
| 1 || "[[The Cobra (Daily story 1934)|The Cobra]]" || 12 Nov 1934 || 24 Nov 1934 || starting in week 23
|-
| 2 || "[[The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda)]]" || 26 Nov 1934 || 23 Feb 1935 || printed spanning 5 columns from January 7, 1935
|-
| 3 || "[[The Monster of Tanov Pass]]" || 25 Feb 1935 || 15 Jun 1935 || 
|-
| 4 || "[[Saki, the Clay Camel]]" || 17 Jun 1935 || 2 Nov 1935 || 
|-
| 5 || "[[The Werewolf]]" || 4 Nov 1935 || 29 Feb 1936 || 
|-
| 6 || "[[The Return of the Clay Camel]]" || 2 Mar 1936 || 18 Jul 1936 || 
|-
| 7 || "[[The Slave Traders of Tygandi]]" || 20 Jul 1936 || 28 Nov 1936 || 
|-
| 8 || "[[Mandrake in the Lost World]]" || 30 Nov 1936 || 17 Apr 1937 || 
|-|
| 9 || "[[In the Cobra's Grip]]" || 19 Apr 1937 || 11 Sep 1937 || 
|-
| 10 || "[[Mandrake in America]]" || 13 Sep 1937 || 29 Jan 1938 || 
|-
| 11 || "[[Mandrake in Hollywood]]" || 31 Jan 1938 || 2 Apr 1938 || 
|-
| 12 || "[[Sonny the Child Movie Star]]" || 4 Apr 1938 || 14 May 1938 || 
|-
| 13 || "[[Mandrake and the Haunted House]]" || 16 May 1938 || 9 Jul 1938 
|-
| 14 || "[[Blozz the Champion]]" || 11 Jul 1938 || 10 Sep 1938 || 
|-
| 15 || "[[Mandrake in Love]]" || 12 Sep 1938 || 3 Dec 1938 || 
|-
| 16 || "[[Visitors from Space]]" || 5 Dec 1938 || 4 Feb 1939 || 
|-
| 17 || "[[The Deep South]]" || 6 Feb 1939 || 13 May 1939 || 
|-
| 18 || "[[Mandrake in Cockaigne]]" || 15 May 1939 || 2 Sep 1939 || 
|-
| 19 || "[[Mandrake in North Africa]]" || 4 Sep 1939 || 23 Dec 1939 || 
|-
| 20 || "[[The Mountain Bandits]]" || 25 Dec 1939 || 20 Jan 1940 || 
|-
| 21 || "[[The Museum Mystery]]" || 22 Jan 1940 || 4 May 1940 || 
|-
| 22 || "[[The Octopus Ring]]" || 6 May 1940 || 21 Dec 1940 || 
|-
| 23 || "[[Dr Griff's Invention]]" || 23 Dec 1940 || 5 Apr 1941 || 
|-
| 24 || "[[The Mystery of the Striped Orchid]]" || 7 Apr 1941 || 21 Jun 1941 || 
|-
| 25 || "[[The Great Grando]]" || 23 Jun 1941 || 8 Nov 1941 || 
|-
| 26 || "[[Lothar the Champ]]" || 10 Nov 1941 || 11 Jul 1942 || 
|-
| 27 || "[[The Rumor Factory]]" || 13 Jul 1942 || 12 Sep 1942 || 
|-
| 28 || "[[Baron Kord]]" || 14 Sep 1942 || 10 Apr 1943 || 
|-
| 29 || "[[The Witch of Kaloon]]" || 12 Apr 1943 || 23 Oct 1943 || printed spanning 4 columns from September 27, 1943 
|-
| 30 || "[[The Earthshaker]]" || 25 Oct 1943 || 29 Jan 1944 || 
|-
| 31 || "[[The Dome]]" || 31 Jan 1944 || 24 Jun 1944 || 
|-
| 32 || "[[Doctor Congo]]" || 26 Jun 1944 || 7 Oct 1944 || 
|-
| 33 || "[[The Mirror People]]" || 9 Oct 1944 || 16 Dec 1944 || 
|-
| 34 || "[[The Ice Lady]]" || 18 Dec 1944 || 31 Mar 1945 || 
|-
| 35 || "[[The Old Ones]]" || 2 Apr 1945 || 30 Jun 1945 || 
|-
| 36 || "[[The Mysterious Prince]]" || 2 Jul 1945 || 13 Oct 1945 || 
|-
| 37 || "[[The Sleeping Beauty]]" || 15 Oct 1945 || 12 Jan 1946 || 
|-
| 38 || "[[Pleasant Valley]]" || 14 Jan 1946 || 23 Mar 1946 || 
|-
| 39 || "[[Medusa]]" || 25 Mar 1946 || 1 Jun 1946 || 
|-
| 40 || "[[The Jinx]]" || 3 Jun 1946 || 3 Aug 1946 || 
|-
| 41 || "[[Felina]]" || 5 Aug 1946 || 14 Dec 1946 || 
|-
| 42 || "[[The Brass Monkey]]" || 16 Dec 1946 || 22 Mar 1947 || 
|-
| 43 || "[[HRH Cuddles]]" || 24 Mar 1947 || 2 Aug 1947 || 
|-
| 44 || "[[Wolf Valley]]" || 4 Aug 1947 || 1 Nov 1947 || 
|-
| 45 || "[[Sky Acres]]" || 3 Nov 1947 || 3 Jan 1948 || 
|-
| 46 || "[[The Ghost Plane]]" || 5 Jan 1948 || 20 Mar 1948 || 
|-
| 47 || "[[Cinderella of the Sea]]" || 22 Mar 1948 || 17 Jul 1948 || 
|-
| 48 || "[[Queen Ebony]]" || 19 Jul 1948 || 2 Oct 1948 || 
|-
| 49 || "[[The Big Tyme]]" || 4 Oct 1948 || 25 Dec 1948 || 
|- 
| 50 || "[[Derek (Daily story 1948/49)|Derek]]" || 27 Dec 1948 || 23 Apr 1949 || 
|-
| 51 || "[[The Amazing Ray]]" || 25 Apr 1949 || 30 Jul 1949 || 
|-
| 52 || "[[Lady Ermine]]" || 1 Aug 1949 || 1 Oct 1949 || 
|-
| 53 || "[[Mystery Taxi]]" || 3 Oct 1949 || 26 Nov 1949 || 
|-
| 54 || "[[Mystery at the Bar-J Ranch]]" || 28 Nov 1949 || 11 Feb 1950 || 
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| 55 || "[[Deadman's Gulch]]" || 13 Feb 1950 || 11 Mar 1950 || 
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| 56 || "[[The Beauty Collector]]" || 13 Mar 1950 || 27 May 1950 || 
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| 57 || "[[The Dark One]]" || 29 May 1950 || 19 Aug 1950 || 
|-
| 58 || "[[The Mystery of Uncle Ed]]" || 21 Aug 1950 || 14 Oct 1950 || 
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| 59 || "[[The Haunted Farm]]" || 16 Oct 1950 || 2 Dec 1950 || 
|-
| 60 || "[[Swami]]" || 4 Dec 1950 || 17 Mar 1951 || 
|-
| 61 || "[[Lenore (story)|Lenore]]" || 19 Mar 1951 || 9 Jun 1951 || 
|-
| 62 || "[[Mandrake's Birthday]]" || 11 Jun 1951 || 14 Jul 1951 || 
|-
| 63 || "[[The Face Mystery]]" || 16 Jul 1951 || 15 Sep 1951 || 
|-
| 64 || "[[The Conquerors]]" || 17 Sep 1951 || 17 Nov 1951 || 
|-
| 65 || "[[The Million Dollar Loaf]]" || 19 Nov 1951 || 19 Jan 1952 || 
|-
| 66 || "[[The Mysterious Phone Booth]]" || 21 Jan 1952 || 1 Mar 1952 || 
|-
| 67 || "[[The Silly Stuff Department]]" || 3 Mar 1952 || 12 Apr 1952 || 
|-
| 68 || "[[Cleopatra's Treasure]]" || 14 Apr 1952 || 26 Jul 1952 || 
|-
| 69 || "[[Out of Nowhere]]" || 28 Jul 1952 || 4 Oct 1952 || 
|-
| 70 || "[[The Impostor]]" || 6 Oct 1952 || 27 Dec 1952 || 
|-
| 71 || "[[The Jungle Witch]]" || 29 Dec 1952 || 18 Apr 1953 || 
|-
| 72 || "[[The Vanishing Rocket]]" || 20 Apr 1953 || 20 Jun 1953 || 
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| 73 || "[[The Mysterious Mr Beam]]" || 22 Jun 1953 || 26 Sep 1953 || 
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| 74 || "[[The Monsters]]" || 28 Sep 1953 || 12 Dec 1953 || 
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| 75 || "[[The Haunted Slope]]" || 14 Dec 1953 || 6 Feb 1954 || 
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| 76 || "[[The Royal Suitor]]" || 8 Feb 1954 || 29 May 1954 || 
|-
| 77 || "[[The Deep Sea Mystery]]" || 31 May 1954 || 28 Aug 1954 || 
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| 78 || "[[The Museum Theft]]" || 30 Aug 1954 || 9 Oct 1954 || 
|-
| 79 || "[[The Enchantress]]" || 11 Oct 1954 || 1 Jan 1955 || 
|-
| 80 || "[[The Tourist]]" || 3 Jan 1955 || 2 Apr 1955 || 
|-
| 81 || "[[The Inventor]]" || 4 Apr 1955 || 21 May 1955 || 
|-
| 82 || "[[Return of the Clay Camel (1955 story)|Return of the Clay Camel]]" || 23 May 1955 || 16 Jul 1955 || 
|-
| 83 || "[[U-Hunt]]" || 18 Jul 1955 || 3 Sep 1955 || 
|-
| 84 || "[[The Experiment]]" || 5 Sep 1955 || 12 Nov 1955 || 
|-
| 85 || "[[Michael]]" || 14 Nov 1955 || 21 Jan 1956 || 
|-
| 86 || "[[The New Neighbors]]" || 23 Jan 1956 || 21 Apr 1956 || 
|-
| 87 || "[[The Decoy]]" || 23 Apr 1956 || 30 Jun 1956 || 
|-
| 88 || "[[The Little Fog]]" || 2 Jul 1956 || 20 Oct 1956 || 
|-
| 89 || "[[Tub's Gang]]" || 22 Oct 1956 || 22 Dec 1956 || 
|-
| 90 || "[[The Chess Kings]]" || 24 Dec 1956 || 2 Mar 1957 || 
|-
| 91 || "[[The Western]]" || 4 Mar 1957 || 18 May 1957 || 
|-
| 92 || "[[The Penthouse Mystery]]" || 20 May 1957 || 27 Jul 1957 || note 1
|-
| 93 || "[[Lothar's Day]]" || 29 Jul 1957 || 31 Aug 1957 || note 1
|-
| 94 || "[[Jami]]" || 2 Sep 1957 || 21 Dec 1957 || note 1
|-
| 95 || "[[The New-Type Radio]]" || 23 Dec 1957 || 1 Mar 1958 || note 1
|-
| 96 || "[[Employment Agency]]" || 3 Mar 1958 || 24 May 1958 || note 1
|-
| 97 || "[[Narda's Adventure]]" || 26 May 1958 || 26 Jul 1958 || note 1
|-
| 98 || "[[Tale of Detru]]" || 28 Jul 1958 || 20 Sep 1958 || note 1
|- 
| 99 || "[[The Invisible Bandit]]" || 22 Sep 1958 || 6 Dec 1958 || note 1
|-
| 100 || "[[The Dollmaker]]" || 8 Dec 1958 || 14 Mar 1959 || note 1
|-
| 101 || "[[Queen of the Cats]]" || 16 Mar 1959 || 11 Apr 1959 || note 1, interupted
|-
| style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"| 
|-
| 103 || "[[The Spaceman Mystery]]" || 4 Oct 1959 || 18 Oct 1959 || note 2, 3 last weeks only
|-
| 104 || "[[Shirlana]]" ||| 25 Oct 1959 || 3 Jan 1960 || 
|-
| 105 || "[[Secret of the Sargasso]]" || 10 Jan 1960 || 27 Mar 1960 || 
|-
| 106 || "[[Spooks]]" || 3 Apr 1960 || 19 Jun 1960 || 
|-
| 107 || "[[The Thief|The Thief (The Time Traveller)]]" || 26 Jun 1960 || 11 Sep 1960 || 
|-
| 108 || "[[The Ambassador]]" || 18 Sep 1960 || 22 Oct 1960 || interupted after 7 weeks
|-
|}
*note 1: Starting 7 July 1957 the Sunday edition reprinted the daily stips of a week ''(strip of June 19-22 and 24-25)''. The last ''reprint'' in the Sunday issue was on 26 April 1959 ''(strip of April 7 to 11 - (only 5 strips, and the strip of April 7 was also in the newspaper on Sunday 19 April)''.
*note 2: From 4 October 1959 the Sunday editions reproduce a whole week of dailies strips on a page.

==Published Sunday pages stories==
The first and second run printed the [[Spotlight on newspaper strip layout|tabloid version]] of the strip.
{| {{table}} 
!# !!Original story title!! Start date !! End date !! Comment
|-
| 1 || "[[The Hidden Kingdom of Murderers]]" || 3 Feb 1935 || 26 May  1935 || interupted
|-
| 2 || "[[Land of the Fakirs]]" || 9 June 1935 || - || interupted
|-
| style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"| 
|-
| 24 || "[[Cloud City]]" || 2 May 1943 || 16 May 1943 || two pages only
|-
| style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"| || style="background: silver;"|
|-
| 72 || "[[The Casino]]" || July 7, 1957 || 4 Aug 1957 || 
|-
| 73 || "[[The Place Called X]]" || 11 Aug 1957 || 29 Dec 1957 || 
|-
| 74 || "[[The Invaders]]" || 5 Jan 1958 || 20 Apr 1958 || 
|-
| 75 || "[[The Mesa]]" || 27 Apr 1958 || 6 Jul 1958 || 
|-
| 76 || "[[The Birthday Party]]" || 13 Jul 1958 || 30 Nov 1958 || 
|-
| 77 || "[[The Invisible Thief]]" || 7 Dec 1958 || 15 Mar 1959 || 
|-
| 78 || "[[The Watcher]]" || 22 Mar 1959 || 5 Jul 1959 || 
|-
| 79 || "[[The Old West Revisited]]" || 12 Jul 1959 || 30 Aug 1959 || 
|-
| 80 || "[[The Horse Thief]]" || 6 Sep 1959 || 15 Nov 1959 || 
|-
| 81 || "[[The Abominable Snowman]]" || 22 Nov 1959 || 1 May 1960 || 
|-
| 82 || "[[The Demon Photographer]]" || 8 May 1960 || 24 Jul 1960 || 
|-
| 83 || "[[The Radio Telescope]]" || 31 Jul 1960 || 7 Aug 1960 ||
|-
| 84 || "[[The Water Pirates]]" || 14 Aug 1960 || 10 Oct 1960 || interupted
|-
|}

==== Samples ====
<gallery>
Image:San- Francisco- Examiner.Logo.png|''Newspaper Logo / "Monarch of the Dailies"...''
Image:San-Francisco-Examiner.1934-11-12.png|''first daily strip / Nov.12, 1934''
Image:San-Francisco-Examiner.1938-05-07.png|''daily strip / May 7, 1938''
Image:San-Francisco-Examiner.1942-08-16.jpg|''Sunday page August 16,1942 (original in color)''
Image:San-Francisco-Examiner.1946-10-16.png|''daily strip / Oct. 16, 1946''
Image:San-Francisco-Examiner.1954-03-01.png|''daily strip / March 1, 1954'' 
Image:San-Francisco-Examiner.Ad for comics.jpg|''Ad for comics''
</gallery>

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