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|Title= The Crater World
|image= [[Image:md-1982-06-07.png|400 px]]
|Start= June 7th, 1982
|End= October 16th, 1982
|Strips= 114 (19 weeks)
|Writer= [[Lee Falk]]
|Artist= [[Fred Fredericks]]
|Preceded= "[[Haunted Road]]"
|Followed= "[[The Evil Spirit of the East Wind]]"
|}}
'''"The Crater World"''' is the 179th Mandrake [[daily story]]. 
The story was written by [[Lee Falk]] and drawn by [[Fred Fredericks]].

== Plot Summary ==
Leaving the [[Haunted Road|witch]] traveling to the town Mandrake and Lothar comming to a vulcano. Inside they discovers a strange world where plants and insects are gigantic, while mammals and humans is small. The opposite of the normal world.

===Appearances===
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'''Recurring characters'''
*[[Mandrake]]
*[[Lothar]]

'''One-time characters'''
*Dun Dum, leader of the small people inside the vulcano.
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'''Locations'''
*The landscape near the [[Collegium Magikos|College of Magic]] .
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==Behind the scenes==
*The title for the story is lifted from the plot.

== Reprints ==
This story has been published in the following publications:

=== [[Image:mini_brazil.gif]] Brazil ===
*"O Vulcão da Morte", [[Almanaque do Mandrake 13|''Almanaque do Mandrake'' #13]]  (1983)

=== [[Image:mini_india.gif]] India ===
*"The Scary Wonderland", [[Indrajal Comics Vol. 21 No. 42|''Indrajal Comics'' Vol. 21 No. 42]] (1984)

=== [[Image:mini_italy.gif]] Italy ===
*"La valle dei mostri", [[New Comics Now 107|''Mandrake - New Comics Now'' #107]] (1984)

=== [[Image:mini_spain.gif]] Spain ===
*"El Extraño Mundo", [[Mandrake 30 (Euroclub Magerit)|''Mandrake'' #30]] (1998)

=== [[Image:mini_turkey.gif]] Turkey ===
*"Garip Yolculuk", [[Mandrake Albüm 229 (Tay)|''Mandrake Albüm'' #229]] & [[Mandrake Albüm 230 (Tay)| #230]]
*"Garip Yolculuk", [[Mandrake Süper Albüm 22 (Tay)|''Mandrake Süper Albüm'' #22]]  [[Mandrake Süper Albüm 23 (Tay)| #23]]
*"Garip Yolculuk", [[Mandrake Süper Albüm 2 (Tay 33 issues)|''Mandrake Süper Albüm'' #2]]

=== [[Image:mini_yugoslavia.png|border]] Yugoslavia ===
*"Pakleni krater" and "U zemlji džinova", [[Super EKS Almanah 61|''Super EKS Almanah'' #61]] and  [[Super EKS Almanah 62| #62]] (1984 and 1985)

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