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====Stamps====
====Stamps====
The Mandrake issue has an ad from Broadway Approvals for ''start packages'' for collecting stamps.  
The Mandrake issue has an ad from Broadway Approvals for ''start packages'' for collecting stamps. The same ad is used in other comics like: "Western Kid" #17, "Marvelman Family" #23 ''(at GCD #30 is said issued in November 1959)''. Broadway Approvals has the adress: 486 Old Kent Rd. London, S.E.I.
The lot W1 have:  
The lot '''W1''' have:  
*a Large Stamp Album
*a Large Stamp Album
*Imported collection of stamps, 57 different: Monaco - ''Grace Kelly Wedding'', French Antartica - ''First stamp from fantastic new country!'', China - ''Great Wall Airmail'', IT. Somalia - ''Flowers'', Ethopia - ''Red X'', Estonia - ''Nazi Dorpat'', Red China - ''Imperf''.  
*Imported collection of stamps, 57 different: Monaco - ''Grace Kelly Wedding'', French Antartica - ''First stamp from fantastic new country!'', China - ''Great Wall Airmail'', IT. Somalia - ''Flowers'', Ethopia - ''Red X'', Estonia - ''Nazi Dorpat'', Red China - ''Imperf''.  
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Image:Miller-mtm-02-ad-BA-W1.jpg|lot W1
Image:Miller-mtm-02-ad-BA-W1.jpg|lot W1
Image:Broadway-A-SA.jpg|''Stamp Album''
Image:Broadway-A-SA.jpg|''Stamp Album''
Image:W1-56-OL-10-r.jpg|1956 OL - ''red print''
</gallery>
The OL stamps came in 4 colors: blue, red, green and purple. Other stamps depicted in the ad:
<gallery>
Image:W1-41-Es-30.jpg|1941 Estonia
Image:W1-45-Et-5.jpg|1945 Ethiopia
Image:W1-48-Ch-20000.jpg|1948 China
Image:W1-49-Ch-10.jpg|1949 China
Image:W1-55-So-001.jpg|1955 Somalia
Image:W1-56-FrA-05.jpg|1959 French Antarctica
Image:W1-56-Mo-01.jpg|1956 Monaco
</gallery>
</gallery>


[[Category:Mandrake the Magician (Miller) issues|Mandrake the Magician 02]]
[[Category:Mandrake the Magician (Miller) issues|Mandrake the Magician 02]]

Latest revision as of 08:09, 24 April 2023

Mandrake the Magician #2
Illustrated Comic
Miller-mtm-02.jpg
Cover artist: unknown
Country/language: Mini uk.gif United Kingdom / English
Format: 18.5 × 24.5 cm
Pages: 68 pgs, b/w
Publishing date: 1959
Editor: unknown
Publishing company: L. Miller & Son
Preceded by: issue 1
Followed by: issue 3


Contents

Mandrake stories

Note

Publishing date

This issue was released without a publishing date on the cover or inside, but is likely released about February 1959.

The L. Miller triangle

When the son (Arnold Miller) left his fathers company in 1959 Leonard Miller changed the company name from "L. Miller & Son" to "L. Miller & Co". The 291 issues (from the week ending March 14, 1959) of "Marvelman" and "Young Marvelman" both have "L. Miller & Son" and the 294 issues (from the week ending April 4, 1959) have "L. Miller & Co".

Stamps

The Mandrake issue has an ad from Broadway Approvals for start packages for collecting stamps. The same ad is used in other comics like: "Western Kid" #17, "Marvelman Family" #23 (at GCD #30 is said issued in November 1959). Broadway Approvals has the adress: 486 Old Kent Rd. London, S.E.I. The lot W1 have:

  • a Large Stamp Album
  • Imported collection of stamps, 57 different: Monaco - Grace Kelly Wedding, French Antartica - First stamp from fantastic new country!, China - Great Wall Airmail, IT. Somalia - Flowers, Ethopia - Red X, Estonia - Nazi Dorpat, Red China - Imperf.
  • the "Midget Encyclopædia of stamps"
  • Australia - 1956 Olympic Seals

  • lot W1

  • Stamp Album

  • 1956 OL - red print

The OL stamps came in 4 colors: blue, red, green and purple. Other stamps depicted in the ad:

  • 1941 Estonia

  • 1945 Ethiopia

  • 1948 China

  • 1949 China

  • 1955 Somalia

  • 1959 French Antarctica

  • 1956 Monaco

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