The Unknown Island

The Unknown Island
Start date:	January 7th, 2008
End date:	June 14th, 2008
# of strips:	138 (23 weeks)
Writer:	Fred Fredericks
Artist:	Fred Fredericks
Preceded by:	"Meet Captain Smash"
Followed by:	"Beware, the Bookworm!"

"The Unknown Island" is the 255th Mandrake daily story. The story was written and drawn by Fred Fredericks.

In this story one find a special made "Earth Day" strip for April the 22th of 2008.

Plot Summary

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Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Narda
• Lothar
• Guran
• Old Mozz, teller of tales

One-time characters

• May Riff,
• Amanda, May's mother a famous pilot
• Blanche, ex aircraft mechanic in the Sky Band
• Sala, member of the notorious Sky Band.
• Varno, a convict - killer
• Raoul, a convict - thief

Locations

• New York City
  • Xanadu
• Otto Island, in the Pacific ocean
  • a small airfield
• The Deep Woods

Vehicles

• Yellow Bird II, a plain

Organizations

• Riff Aircraft co.
• The Sky Band

Behind the scenes

Title

• The title for the story is taken from the strip of January 7th, 2008 (Beginning: The Unknown Island).

Story

• May Riff first appeared in the daily story "The Missing Aviatrix"
• Guran and Old Mozz are well-known characters in the Deep Woods, the universe of the Phantom.
• Sala and Blanche are characters from two stories with the Phantom: "The Sky Band" and "The Return of the Sky Band".
  • Sala also figured in the first Phantom story "The Singh Brotherhood" from 1936.

Reprints

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