City of Jewels Pt.2: The Ice Demons

City of Jewels Pt.2: The Ice Demons
Start date:	June 27th, 1948
End date:	September 5th, 1948
# of strips:	11 (11 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"City of Jewels Pt.1: The Polar Bear Pirates"
Followed by:	"City of Jewels Pt.3: Conclusion"

"City of Jewels" Pt.2: "The Ice Demons" is the 39th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

On the ice field Mandrake and Narda find a fainting girl tide to a stake nearby a hole in the ice. In the hut of her father they hear of the ice-demons, living beneath the ice. Each day the villagers leave food offering at the ice-holes, and once a year a girl.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Narda
• Lothar
• Arlen Blaine
• Munden, an explorer

One-time characters

• Teemah, a native girl
• Father of Teemah
• Sugon, a native man
• The Ice Demons, fur-bearing dwarfs - human ants
• King of the Ice Demons

Locations

• The polar region
  • A village
  • A anthill-like colony beneath the ice

Vehicles

• Argus, Blaine's yacht.

Behind the scenes

• The title for this story is taken from the strip of April 4 and 11, 1948 (Next Week = "The City of Jewels" & Beginning: The City of Jewels.). The subtitle is lifted from the plot.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "City of Jewels", Mandrake Comic #2 (1953)

Belgium

• "(no title given)", Story# 225 to Story#230 (1949)

Brazil

• "A Cidada das Jóias", Mandrake #98 (1965)

France

• "Enfer blanc", Spécial Mandrake #61 (1968)
• "Enfer blanc", Spécial Mandrake Album #5 (1968)
• "La ville des joyaux", Mandrake #424 (1974)
• "La cité de cristal", Mandrake le Magicien #3 (1981)
• "L'enfer blanc", Mandrake le Magicien - L'intégrale 2 (Soleil) (1993)

Italy

• "La città dei gioielli", L'Avventura Albo tascabile #10 (1950)
• "Inferno bianco", Mandrake #25 (1962)
• "Inferno bianco", Special Mandrake #191 (1967)
• "La citta del gioielli", Mandrake #70 (1974)
• "Inferno bianco", Mandrake #2 (1994)
• no title, Mandrake - La rotta delle meraviglie (2004)

New Zealand

• "City of Jewels Pt.2: The Ice Demons", Mandrake the Magician #44 and Mandrake the Magician #45 (1953)

Norway

• "Mandrake i juvelbyen", Skippern (1951-1952)

Portugal

• "A Cidade de Cristal", Antologia da BD Clássica #1 (1982)

Serbia

• "Grad dragulja", Biblioteka Nostalgija #1 (2014)

USA

• "City of Jewels", The Official Mandrake Sundays #3 (1989)