Las Grandes Aventuras: Merlin el Mago Moderno 5

Merlín Rey de la Magia
Cover artist: unknown
Country/language:	Spain / Spanish
Format:	21 x 32 cm
Pages:	16 pgs, b/w
Publishing date:	1943
Editor:	unknown
Publishing company:	Hispano Americana
Preceded by:	Merlin #4
Followed by:	Merlin #6

Contents

Mandrake stories

• "Merlín Rey de la Magia" ("Land of the Fakirs") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.

Back cover

Starting in 1943 the back covers of issues from the "Las Grandes Aventuras" and the "Los Albumes Preferidos por la Juventud" printed a series about how to fly a plane, "Las Lecciones del Jefe Piloto".

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  back cover

In 1983 Joaquín Esteve edited in collaboration with "Club Amigos de la Historieta" a facsimile reprint of this issue. In 1983 Joaquín Esteve edited in collaboration with "Club Amigos de la Historieta" a facsimile reprint of this issue. The back cover is with only one printing plate for prussian blue.

Note

The "Las Grandes Aventuras" (or other series by Hispano Americana) have no numbering or date printed on the cover or inside, thus making it difficult to make an index in chronological order. Fortunately, most of the back covers from the series "Las Grandes Aventuras" and "Los Albumes Preferidos por la Juventud" series (Colleción "Audaz" & Aventuras y Misterio) have a back-list and an ad for the next issue. Sometime also the current or next issue for the other series.

Comparing the back covers of the first print issues prior the first Mandrake issue it is possible to make a list which shows that the first Mandrake issue was #62 in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series, most likely published in June/July 1943.