Gloria Golden

Gloria Golden
Start date:	November 14th, 1943
End date:	January 23rd, 1944
# of strips:	11 (11 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"Cloud City"
Followed by:	"The Garden of Wuzzu"

"Gloria Golden" is the 25th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was probably written by someone else than Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

After three attempts the kidnappers succeeds to kidnap Gloria Golden, the famous Hollywood star.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar, one panel only.
• The Police Chief

One-time characters

• Gloria Golden, a famed Hollywood star.
• Kidnapper #1
• Kidnapper #2
• Tiny, eks director and now a kidnapper.
• Ronald Ronald, a Hollywood star.
• Ma Macree, a Hollywood star.

Locations

• Hollywood ?

Behind the scenes

• At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "Gloria Golden", which is lifted from the plot.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

France

• "Le metteur en scène clandestin", L'âge d'or Mandrake #4 (1980)

Italy

• "Il regista clandestino", Mandrake #50 (1963)
• "Il regista clandestino", I Classici dell'Avventura #103 (1965)
• "Il regista clandestino", L'epoca d'oro di Mandrake #4 (1980)
• "Il regista clandestino", Mandrake - New Comics Now #42 (1981)

Spain

• "El loco de Hollywood", Almanaque Aventurero #1946 (1946)

USA

• King Comics (1945)

Yugoslavia

• "Otimač filmskih zvezda", Biblioteka Nostalgija #8 (1988)