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|Title= The Galactic Rumble
|image= [[Image:ms-19690406.jpg|280px|border]]
|Start= April 6, 1969
|End= September 7, 1969
|Strips= 23 (23 weeks)
|Writer= [[Lee Falk]]
|Artist= [[Fred Fredericks]]
|Preceded= "[[The All or Nothing Hunt]]"
|Followed= "[[The Invaders (1969 story)|The Invaders]]"
|}}
'''"The Galactic Rumble"''' is the 106th Mandrake [[Sunday story]]. 
The story was written by [[Lee Falk]] and drawn by [[Fred Fredericks]].

This story exist in three variations. Fredericks drew the strips with three rows in landscape format which scaled down to fit half a newspaper page. By cutting the top row, the strip fills a third of a newspaper page. By rearranging the panels to portrait format, the strip fit a tabloid page.

== Plot Summary ==
At Xanadu a tri-dem of Rodon the High Marshal of the Central Galaxy; telling Mandrake that Alpha and Beta heads two rival gangs. Each numbering a million or more. They terrorize whole planets, sell protection, promote vice, smuggle, rob, kill. Recently they divded the gallaxy peacefully, but because of the "stupid wager" they became furious at each other and started a space war. Mandrake and Lothar joined Rodon on his giantic flagship to help finding the space criminals.

=== Appearances ===
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'''Recurring characters'''
*[[Mandrake]]
*[[Lothar]]
*[[Narda]]
*[[Magnon]]
*[[Rodon]], High Marshal of the Central Galaxy.
'''One-time characters'''
*Philon, of I.G. (Inter Galactic Security).
*Alpha
*Beta
*A "Space Thing", a enormous meat eater living in space.

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'''Locations'''
*New York City
**[[Xanadu]]
*In space
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== Behind the scenes ==
*The story title is from the strip of April 6, 1969 (Beginning: The Galactic Rumble).

== Related stories ==
=== Follows ===
[[The All or Nothing Hunt]]

== Signifiant covers ==
<gallery>
Mandrake160rge.png|[[Image:mini_brazil.gif]] Brazil
Mandrake320rge.png|[[Image:mini_brazil.gif]] Brazil
Gibiglobo05.png|[[Image:mini_brazil.gif]] Brazil
Ilvascellomandrake-02-171.jpg|[[Image:mini_italy.gif]] Italy
Mundodeav-02-116.jpg|[[Image:mini_portugal.gif]] Portugal
Mandrake-el-mago-dolmen-02.jpg|[[Image:mini_spain.gif]] Spain
</gallery>

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

=== [[Image:mini_argentina.gif]] Argentina ===
*"Los Gangsters del Espacio", [[Super Sandokan 11|''Super Sandokan'' #11]] (1983)

=== [[Image:mini_brazil.gif]] Brazil ===
*"A Guerra Espacial", [[Mandrake 160 (RGE)|''Mandrake'' #160]] (1970)
*"Guerra no Espaço", [[Mandrake 320 (RGE)|''Mandrake'' #320]] (1982)
*"Guerra nas Estrela", [[Gibi 5 (Globo)|''Gibi'' #5]] (1993)

=== [[Image:mini_france.gif]] France ===
*"La piste spatiale", [[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 416|''Mandrake'' #416]] (1974)

=== [[Image:mini_italy.gif]] Italy ===
*"La pista spaziale", [[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 171|''Mandrake'' #171]] and [[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 172| #172]] (1970)
*"La pista spaziale", [[Mandrake - Il Vascello – Serie Cronologica 62|''Mandrake'' #62]] (1974)
*"La pista spaziale", [[Mandrake Selezione 2|''Mandrake Selezione'' #2]] (1976)

=== [[Image:mini_portugal.gif]] Portugal ===
*"no given title", [[Mundo de Aventuras 116 (second series)|''Mundo de Aventuras'' #116]] (1975)

=== [[Image:mini_spain.gif]] Spain ===
*"La pista especial", [[Pocket de Ases 38|''Pocket de Ases'' #38]] (1984)
*"Reyerta en el espacio", [[ Mandrake el Mago: Sundays pages 1968–1972 (Dolmen Editorial)]] (2019)

=== [[Image:mini_sweden.gif]] Sweden ===
*"Kosmisk vadhållning", [[Fantomen 13/1970|''Fantomen'' #13]] (1970)

=== [[Image:mini_turkey.gif]] Turkey ===
*"Ganster Savaşı", [[Mandrake 102 (Tay)|''Mandrake'' #102]] & [[Mandrake 103 (Tay)| #103]] & [[Mandrake 104 (Tay)| #104]] (1976)
*"Ganster Savaşı", [[Mandrake 33 (Tay second series)|''Mandrake'' #33]] & [[Mandrake 34 (Tay second series)| #34]] & [[Mandrake 35 (Tay second series)| #35]]
*"Ganster Savaşı", [[Mandrake Süper Albüm 9 (Tay)|''Mandrake Süper Albüm'' #9]]
*"Ganster Savaşı", [[Mandrake Süper Albüm 46 (Tay)|''Mandrake Süper Albüm'' #46]]

=== [[Image:mini_uk.gif]] United Kingdom ===
*"The Galactic Rumble", ''[[Mandrake the Magician - The Sundays Volume 1: The Meeting of Mandrake and Lothar]]'' (2018)

=== [[Image:mini_yugoslavia.png|border]] Yugoslavia ===
*"Dvoboj na asteroidu", [[Super EKS Almanah 44|''Super EKS Almanah'' #44]] (1983)

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