Las Grandes Aventuras: Merlin el Mago Moderno 12

Merlín, el Rey de la Magia en Fuerza contra Fuerza
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 #11
Followed by:	Merlin #13

Merlín, el Rey de la Magia en Fuerza contra Fuerza is the twelfth Mandrake issue in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series with price tag 1.5 ptas.

Contents

Mandrake stories

• "Fuerza contra Fuerza" ("Lothar the Champ", part 2) 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 Isaac Oceja Oceja, from Atlético de Bilbao (squad 1943-44).

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  back cover

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  1983 reprint

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 #95 in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series, most likely published in July 1944.