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Arriving towards the South Pole, Miss Dory Survin, an aviator, faces a wall of mists. Mandrake and Lothar | Arriving towards the South Pole, Miss Dory Survin, an aviator, faces a huge wall of mists and her plane dissappears. When informed of this tragic event, Mandrake and Lothar fly off to help her. | ||
At the pole and after landing on the snow, they are suddenly attacked by a prehistoric man. The man has seen Miss Survin but tries to escape them; in fact he managed to trap Mandrake and Lothar in a pit. By hypnotically stretching the wild man's hair, Mandrake manage to use it as a rope and get out of the hole in which they were fallen down. Finally they find Dory and return to civilization with her. | |||
Mandrake and Lothar in a pit. By hypnotically stretching the wild man's hair, Mandrake manage to use it as a rope and get out of the hole | |||
in which they were fallen down. Finally they find Dory and return to civilization with her. | |||
===Appearances=== | ===Appearances=== | ||
Latest revision as of 07:13, 6 June 2024
| Avventura al Polo Sud | |
 French version | |
| 1st publication: | I Classici dell'Avventura #49/1963 |
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| # of pages: | 9 pgs |
| Writer: | unknown |
| Artist: | Domenico Mirabella |
| Producer: | Fratelli Spada |
"Avventura al Polo Sud" is an Italian made Mandrake story from 1962.
Plot summary
Arriving towards the South Pole, Miss Dory Survin, an aviator, faces a huge wall of mists and her plane dissappears. When informed of this tragic event, Mandrake and Lothar fly off to help her. At the pole and after landing on the snow, they are suddenly attacked by a prehistoric man. The man has seen Miss Survin but tries to escape them; in fact he managed to trap Mandrake and Lothar in a pit. By hypnotically stretching the wild man's hair, Mandrake manage to use it as a rope and get out of the hole in which they were fallen down. Finally they find Dory and return to civilization with her.
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- Miss Dory Survin, aviator
- the airport's chief
- A primitive man
Locations
- the South Pole.
Behind the scenes
The story is a short, redrawn version of the daily story "Mandrake in the Lost World" by Lee Falk and Phil Davis. Most of the panels are edited. Mandrake and Lothar are cut out and replaced with new art, looking more like Phil Davis art from the 50s.
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
France
- "Aventure au Pôle Sud", Les héros du mystère #10 (1967)
- "Aventure au Pôle Sud", Les héros du mystère Album #4 (1968)
Italy
- "Avventura al Polo Sud", Mandrake #12 (1962)
- "Avventura al Polo Sud", I Classici dell'Avventura 49 (1963)