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{{Newspaperbox 
|Title= Radio Telescope
|image= [[Image:ms-1960-07-31.jpg|200px|border]]
|Start= July 31st, 1960
|End= August 7th, 1960
|Strips= 2 (2 weeks)
|Writer= [[Lee Falk]]
|Artist= [[Phil Davis]]
|Preceded= "[[The Demon Photographer]]"
|Followed= "[[The Water Pirates]]"
|}}
'''"Radio Telescope"''' is the 83rd Mandrake [[Sunday story]]. 
The story was written by [[Lee Falk]] and drawn by [[Phil Davis]].

== Plot Summary ==
Mandrake and Narda visiting an observatory to have a look at the great radio-telescope. While talking with the director a coded signal coming in from Siridanis.

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

'''One-time characters'''
*An astronomer.
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'''Locations'''
*New York City
*Siridanis, a star about eight light years away.
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==Behind the scenes==
*The story title is taken from the strip of July 24, 1960 (Next Week: Radio Telescope). A better title would be '''The Message from Outer Space''', the intro in the strip of July 31, 1960.

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

=== [[Image:mini_brazil.gif]] Brazil ===
*"''no title''", [[Mandrake 57 (RGE)|''Mandrake'' #57]] (1961)
*"Contrabando de Água", [[Mandrake 208 (RGE)|''Mandrake'' #208]] (1973)

=== [[Image:mini_france.gif]] France ===
*"Le message des étoiles", [[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 2|''Mandrake'' #2]] (1962)
*"Les voleurs d’eau", [[Les héros du mystère - Extra issue Christmas 1967|''Les héros du mystère - Extra issue Christmas 1967'']]  (1967)

=== [[Image:mini_italy.gif]] Italy===
*"Il messaggero delle stelle", [[Il Vascello 65 (second series)|''Il Vascello'' #65]] (1961)
*"Il messaggero delle stelle", [[New Comics Now 319|''Mandrake - New Comics Now'' #319]] (1993)

=== [[Image:mini_portugal.gif]] Portugal ===
*"O cavalo ladrão", [[Condor Popular 3506|''Condor Popular'' vol. 35 #6]] (1962)

=== [[Image:mini_spainunderfranco.gif]] [[Image:mini_spain.gif]] Spain ===
*"Piratas modernos", [[Novelas Gráficas presenta en su serie Amarilla 42|''Serie Amarilla'' #42]] (1959)
*"El radiotelecopio", [[Mandrake el Mago: Sundays pages 1959-1962 (Dolmen Editorial)]] (2021)

=== [[Image:mini_turkey.gif]] Turkey ===
*"''no title''", [[Mandrake 162 (Tay)|''Mandrake'' #162]] (1977)

=== [[Image:mini_usa.gif]] USA ===
*"The Radio Telescope", [[The Missing Years 59|''The Missing Years'' #59]] (2010)

=== [[Image:mini_yugoslavia.png]] Yugoslavia ===
*"Невидљиви крадљивци"/"Nevidljivi kradljivci", [[Politikin Zabavnik 1010|''Politikin Zabavnik'' #1010]] (1971)

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