Las Grandes Aventuras: Merlin el Mago Moderno 9

El Misterio de la Orquídea
Cover artist: unknown
Country/language:	Spain / Spanish
Format:	21 x 32 cm
Pages:	16 pgs, b/w
Publishing date:	1943 (1944 ?)
Editor:	unknown
Publishing company:	Hispano Americana
Preceded by:	Merlin el Mago Moderno #8
Followed by:	Merlin el Mago Moderno #10

Contents

Mandrake stories

• "El Misterio de la Orquídea" ("The Mystery of the Striped Orchid") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.

Back cover

Starting in 1941 the back covers of issues from the "Las Grandes Aventuras" and the "Los Albumes Preferidos por la Juventud" (Colleción "Audaz" & Aventuras y Misterio) printed various collector cards, which could be glued into different collecting albums. These folded "Álbumes Centella" sheets could be ordered free and measured 17,5x25 cm.

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  back cover

• Sticker: Serie 06-03: Alfonso Aparicio Gutiérrez, Atlético Aviación (squad of 1943-44)
• Sticker: Serie 11-13: Stan Laurel, actor
• Sticker: Serie 22-12: Oliver Hardy, actor
• Coupon to order collecting albums for the stickers (note: only for the series 1 to 15, 17, 18, 21, 23 and 24)

Note

Following the back covers these issues were released between the Mandrake issues:

(Issue)	Year	Character	Title	Note
(79)	1943	Merlín	"El Mago del Deporte"
(80)	1943	-	"El Loto Rojo"	número extraordinario (2,5 Ptas.)
(81)	1943	El Hombre Enmascarado	"Los Chacales del Desierto"
(82)	1943	Doctor Brande	"La Rendición de Venia"
(83)	1943	Tarzán	"El Enemigo de Tarzan"
(84)	1943	Juan Y Lois	"El Lago De Los Caimanes"	ad for Almanaque 1944: Merlín, Yumbo, Centella and Jorge y Fernando; ad for Album: Flas Gordon (1-2), Merlín (1), Tarzán (1-2) and El Hombre Enmascarado (1-3)
-	1943	Merlín	"Almanaque Merlín 1944"
(85)	1944	Flas Gordon	"Los Hombres Selváticos"	número extraordinario (2,5 Ptas.)