Las Grandes Aventuras: Merlin el Mago Moderno 14

El Jardin de Uzú con Merlín el Rey de la Magia
Cover artist: unknown
Country/language:	Spain / Spanish
Format:	21 x 32 cm
Pages:	16 pgs, b/w
Publishing date:	1944
Editor:	unknown
Publishing company:	Hispano Americana
Preceded by:	Merlin #13
Followed by:	Merlin #15

Las Grandes Aventuras El Jardin de Uzú con Merlín el Rey de la Magia.

Contents

Mandrake stories

• "El jardin de Uzú" ("The Garden of Wuzzu") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.

Back cover

Starting in 1944 the back covers of issues from the "Las Grandes Aventuras" and the "Los Albumes Preferidos por la Juventud" printed various collector cards. This issue has a picture of José Manuel Sánchez-Dindurra Álvarez, from Real Gijón (squad 1944-45).

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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. 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 this Mandrake issue it is possible to make a list which shows that this Mandrake issue was #114 in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series, most likely published in May 1944. According to the picture of Dindurra it is written the squad of 1944-45. He played for Gijón from the fall of 1943 to the spring of 1953. Either there is a typo on the back cover, or this number was published sometime in the autumn of 1944.