Australian Women's Weekly

The Australian Women's Weekly
Issues with Mandrake
First:	December 1, 1934
Last:	n/a
Country:	Australia
Website:	n/a

The Australian Women's Weekly is an Australian monthly women's magazine published by ACP Magazines, a division of PBL Media based in Sydney. Audited circulation in 2009 exceeded 500,000 copies monthly, making it the largest magazine in Australia.

History

The magazine was started in 1933 by Frank Packer as a weekly publication. In 1982, publication frequency was reduced from weekly to monthly.

It became responsible for introducing Mandrake to Australian audiences, when it unveiled their new comic strip character on December 1, 1934. Mandrake quickly became one of the Weekly's most popular features - a feat no doubt helped by the magazine's policy of replacing any mentions of American place names and idioms with their Australian equivalents, thus persuading readers that Mandrake was, in fact, an Australian character.

Mandrake's peak of popularity coincided with World War Two. When the Weekly was forced to reduce its page count as a wartime paper rationing measure, Mandrake was dropped from the magazine for a week - before readers' protests prompted the Weekly to bring him back in the next issue!

In the 40s the publisher of the Weekly, Consolidated Press, did produced some large black & white Mandrake the Magician comic books.

Daily

Original story title	Start	End	Comments
"The Cobra"	#1/12-1934	#18/5-1935	edited
"The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda)"	#25/5-1934	#20/7-1935	edited
"The Monster of Tanov Pass"	#27/7-1935	#12/10-1935	edited
"Saki, the Clay Camel"	#19/10-1935	#21/3-1936	edited
"The Werewolf"	#28/3-1936	#8/8-1936	edited
"The Return of the Clay Camel"	#15/8-1936	#23/1-1937	edited
"The Slave Traders of Tygandi"	#30/1-1937	#3/7-1937	edited
"Mandrake in the Lost World"	#10/7-1937	#18/12-1937	edited
"In the Cobra's Grip"	#25/12-1937	#11/6-1938	edited
"Mandrake in America"	#18/06-1938	#26/11-1938	edited
"Mandrake in Hollywood"	#26/11-1938	#11/2-1939	edited
"Sonny the Child Movie Star"	#11/2-1938	#1/4-1939	edited
"Mandrake and the Haunted House"	#1/4-1939	#3/6-1939	edited
"Blozz the Champion"	#3/6-1939	#18/8-1939	edited
"Mandrake in Love"	#18/8-1939	#25/11-1939	edited
"Visitors from Space"	#25/11-1939	#10/2-1940	edited
"The Deep South"	#10/2-1940	#1/6-1940	edited
"Mandrake in Cockaigne"	#1/6-1940	#19/10-1940	edited
"Mandrake in North Africa"	#19/10-1940	#5/4-1941	edited
"The Mountain Bandits"	#5/4-1941	#17/5-1941	edited
"The Museum Mystery"	#17/5-1941	#11710-1941	edited
"The Octopus Ring"	#18/10-1941	#19/9-1942	edited
"Dr Griff's Invention"	#26/9-1942	#27/2-1943	edited
"The Mystery of the Striped Orchid"	#6/3-1943	#5/5-1943	edited
"The Great Grando"	#12/6-1943	#11/12-1943	edited
"Lothar the Champ"	#18/12-1943	#25/11-1944	edited
"The Rumor Factory"	#25/11-1944	#25/11-1944	only first strip
"Baron Kord"	#25/11-1944	#29/9-1945	edited

Sundays

Original story title	Start	End	Comments
"Prince Paulo the Tyrant"	#6/10-1945	#26/01-1946	edited
"The Treasure Hunt"	#2/02-1946	#6/07-1946	edited
"The Lunar Trip"	#13/07-1946	#14/12-1946	edited
"The Haunted Range"	#21/12-1946	#15/02-1947	edited
"The Ghost Bear of Glass Mountain"	#22/02-1947	#24/05-1947	edited, some extra panels added by unknown artist
"The Theatre Mysteries"	#31/05-1947	#26/07-1947	edited, one extra panel added by unknown artist
"The Flame Pearls Pt.1: Attempted Assassination"	#2/08-1947	#6/09-1947	edited
"The Flame Pearls Pt.2: Magnetic Island"	#6/09-1947	#18/10-1947	edited, missing the strips of June 30 and July 7, 1940
"The Flame Pearls Pt.3: The Three Cows"	#25/10-1947	#29/11-1947	edited
"The Swordfish (filler page)"	#29/11-1947	#6/12-1947
"The Flame Pearls Pt.4: The Amazons"	#13/12-1947	#14/02-1948	edited
"The Flame Pearls Pt.5: The Ghost Ship"	#14/02-1948	#22/05-1948	edited
"The Flame Pearls Pt.6: The Witch of Tago"	#22/05-1948	#10/07-1948	edited
"The Flame Pearls Pt.7: Land of the Giants"	#10/07-1948	#23/10-1948	edited
"The Flame Pearls Pt.8: The Hungry Isles"	#30/10-1948	#19/03-1949	edited
"The Singing Devils"	#26/03-1949	#16/07-1949
"The Atalan Deep"	#23/07-1949	#29/10-1949
"The Twins of Karana"	#5/11-1949	#28/01-1950
"Roc Island"	#4/02-1950	#29/04-1950
"Kingdom of Marvel"	#6/05-1950	#2/12-1950
"The Blue Bandit"	#9/12-1950	#24/03-1951
"The Prince Who Never Smiled"	#31/03-1951	#5/05-1951
"City of Jewels Pt.1: The Polar Bear Pirates"	#12/05-1951	#27/06-1951
"City of Jewels Pt.2: The Ice Demons"	#4/07-1951	#22/08-1951
"City of Jewels Pt.3: Conclusion"	#29/08-1951	#10/10-1951
"The Raft People"	#17/10-1951	#28/11-1951
"Fear Island"	#5/12-1951	#6/02-1952
"The Mystery of the Big Trees"	#13/02-1952	#16/04-1952
"Jungle Adventure"	#23/04-1952	#19/11-1952	in color from #2/07-1952
"The Ghost Whale"	#26/11-1952	#14/01-1953
"The Department Store Mystery"	#21/01-1953	#25/02-1953
"Curse of the Kavrun Emerald"	#4/03-1953	#29/04-1953
"The Venus Flytrap"	#6/05-1953	#10/06-1953
"The Spaceship to Venus"	#17/06-1953	#9/09-1953
"Mystery of the Vanishing Homes"	#16/09-1953	#21/10-1953
"The Caribbean Mystery"	#28/10-1953	#18/11-1953
"The Jungle Fullback"	#25/11-1953	#23/12-1953
"Taboo Land"	#30/12-1953	#24/03-1954
"The Doorway to Z"	#31/03-1954	#23/06-1954
"The Hide-out"	#30/06-1954	#4/08-1954
"The Visitors"	#11/08-1954	#3/11-1954
"The Water Champs"	#10/11-1954	#24/11-1954
"Mandrake's Magic House"	#1/12-1954	#19/01-1955
"Mandrake Plays Cupid"	#26/01-1955	#2/03-1955
"Rex (The Living Fossil)"	#9/03-1955	#25/05-1955
"The Mountain that Walked"	#1/06-1955	#29/06-1955
"The Tomb"	#6/07-1955	#3/08-1955
"The Ocean Wind"	#10/08-1955	#9/11-1955
"The Sleeping Forest"	#16/11-1955	#21/12-1955
"Isle of the Giant"	#28/11-1955	#29/02-1956
"Universal Love"	#7/03-1956	#18/04-1956
"Magnetic Island"	#25/04-1956	#4/07-1956
"The Castaway"	#11/07-1956	#5/09-1956
"City in the Deep"	#12/09-1956	#28/11-1956
"Witchman's Peak"	#5/12-1956	#8/05-1957
"The Miss Galaxy Beauty Contest"	#15/05-1957	#27/11-1957
"The Casino"	#4/12-1957	#22/01-1958
"The Place Called X"	#29/01-1958	#25/06-1958
"The Invaders"	#2/07-1958	#15/10-1958