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|Title= The Department Store Mystery
|image= [[Image:ms-19500903.jpg|250px|border]]
|Start= September 3, 1950
|End= October 22, 1950
|Strips= 8 (8 weeks)
|Writer= [[Lee Falk]]
|Artist= [[Phil Davis]]
|Preceded= "[[The Ghost Whale]]"
|Followed= "[[Curse of the Kavrun Emerald]]"
|}}
'''"The Department Store Mystery"''' is the 46th Mandrake [[Sunday story]]. 
The story was written by [[Lee Falk]] and drawn by [[Phil Davis]].

== Plot Summary ==
Every night the department store are robbed, but by whom ?

===Appearances===
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'''Recurring characters'''
*[[Mandrake]]
*[[Lothar]]
*[[Narda]]
*[[Chief Bradley|The Police Chief]]
'''One-time characters'''
*Mac, the watchman in the department store
*Joe, a thief
*Ed, a thief
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'''Locations'''
*New York City
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==Behind the scenes==
*The title for this story is taken from the strip of September 3, 1950 (Beginning: The Department Store Mystery.).

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

=== [[Image:mini_argentina.gif]] Argentina ===
*"El misterio de la tienda", [[Biblioteca Clarín de la Historieta 20|''Biblioteca Clarín de la Historieta'' #20]] (2004)

=== [[Image:mini_france.gif]] France ===
*"Le magasin ensorcelé", [[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 22|''Mandrake'' #22]] (1963)
*"Le magasin ensorcelé", [[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 321|''Mandrake'' #321]] (1971)
*"Le magasin ensorcelé", [[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 428|''Mandrake'' #428]] (1975)
*"Le mystère du grand magasin", [[BD V.F. - Mandrake le Magicien 4|''Mandrake le Magicien'' #4]] (1982)

=== [[Image:mini_italy.gif]] Italy ===
*"Il magazzino stregato", [[Mandrake - Il Vascello 36|''Mandrake'' #36]] (1963)
*"Il magazzino stregato", [[Mandrake - Il Vascello – Serie Cronologica 74|''Mandrake'' #74]] (1975)
*"Il magazzino stregato", [[New Comics Now 169|''Mandrake - New Comics Now'' #169]] (1986)
*"Il magazzino stregato", [[Mandrake Speciale (Comic Art) 4|''Mandrake'' #4]] (1994)

=== [[Image:Mini_nz.png]] New Zealand ===
*"The Department Store Mystery", [[Mandrake the Magician 51 (Feature Productions) |''Mandrake the Magician #51'']] and [[Mandrake the Magician 52 (Feature Productions) |''Mandrake the Magician #52'']] (1953)

=== [[Image:mini_norway.gif]] Norway ===
*"Mysteriet i stormagasinet", [[Skippern]] (1954-1955)

=== [[Image:mini_spainunderfranco.gif]] [[Image:mini_spain.gif]] Spain ===
*"Misterio en los grandes almacenes", [[ Mandrake el Mago: Sundays pages 1949–1953 (Dolmen Editorial)]] (2019)

=== [[Image:mini_sweden.gif]] Sweden ===
*"Den förtrollade affären", [[Fantomen - Den vandrande vålnaden 5|''Den vandrande vålnaden'' #5]] (1996)

=== [[Image:mini_usa.gif]] USA ===
*"The Department Store Mystery", [[The Official Mandrake Sundays 4|''The Official Mandrake Sundays'' #4]] (1989)

[[Category:Sunday stories|Department Store Mystery, The]]