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*"I capricci della ereditiera", [[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 67|''Mandrake'' #67]] and [[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 68| #68]] (1968) | *"I capricci della ereditiera", [[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 67|''Mandrake'' #67]] and [[Mandrake - Il Vascello nuova serie 68| #68]] (1968) | ||
*"I capricci dell’ereditiera", [[New Comics Now 70|''Mandrake - New Comics Now'' #70]] (1982) | *"I capricci dell’ereditiera", [[New Comics Now 70|''Mandrake - New Comics Now'' #70]] (1982) | ||
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*"Shirlana", [[Mandrake the Magician 220 (Feature Productions) |''Mandrake the Magician #220'']] and [[Mandrake the Magician 221 (Feature Productions) |''Mandrake the Magician #221'']] (1959) | |||
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*"Mandrake meets Shirlana", [[Mandrake the Magician 14 (Miller)|''Mandrake the Magician'' #14]] (1961) | *"Mandrake meets Shirlana", [[Mandrake the Magician 14 (Miller)|''Mandrake the Magician'' #14]] (1961) | ||
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*"Размажена насљедница" (romanized as "Razmažena nasljednica", [[Politikin Zabavnik 1079|''Politikin Zabavnik'' #1079]] (1972) | |||
[[Category:Daily stories|Shirlana]] | [[Category:Daily stories|Shirlana]] |
Latest revision as of 09:26, 10 March 2024
Shirlana | |
Start date: | October 12, 1959 |
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End date: | December 26, 1959 |
# of strips: | 66 (11 weeks) |
Writer: | Lee Falk |
Artist: | Phil Davis |
Preceded by: | "The Spaceman Mystery" |
Followed by: | "Secret of the Sargasso" |
"Shirlana" is the 104th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.
Plot Summary
The red haired Lady Shirlana lives in a shining marble manson on the Riviera. She is one of the richest and prettiest, and certainly the most spoiled, heiress in the world. Now she has a problem. Unless she marry this year, her fathers fortune goes to the society for a new alphabeth. And Shirlana would only receive a modest income.
But how can she find a man good enough for her? She ordered her lawyer to search the world to find her a suitable man.
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- Lady Shirlana
- Jack, Shirlana's lawyer.
- Myron Byron, a movie star.
Mandrake gestures hypnotically
- Hypnosis; create illusions at the ambassador's charity ball.
- Hypnosis; makes Lady Shirlana think she is a cat.
- Hypnosis; Mandrake's fist seems to be gigantic.
Behind the scenes
- The title for this story is taken from the strip of October 20, 1959 (Next Week: "Shirlana" -).
- Looking at the strip of October the 10th 1959 the third panel have a picture of a Nobel prize-winning writer -remarkable alike Lee Falk!
Signifiant covers
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Australia
- no title, Mandrake the Magician #11 (1962 (?))
Argentina
- "Herencia condicinada", Mandrake el Mago #13 (1960)
- "Herencia condicinada", Impacto #94 (1968)
Brazil
- "Lady Shirlana Procura Marido", Mandrake #46 (1960)
- "Procura-se Um Marido", Mandrake #301 (1981)
- "Procura-se Um Marido", Mandrake Coleção #30 – #31 (1992)
France
- "Les caprices de l'héritière", Mandrake #204 & Mandrake #205 (1969)
- "Les caprices de l'héritière", Spécial Mandrake #3 (1974)
- "no title given, Mandrake le Magicien (Collection Clair de lune) Volume 3 - 1957 à 1961 (2012)
Italy
- "I capricci della ereditiera", Il Vascello #56 (1961)
- "I capricci della ereditiera", I Classici dell'Avventura #21 (1962)
- "I capricci della ereditiera", Mandrake #67 and #68 (1968)
- "I capricci dell’ereditiera", Mandrake - New Comics Now #70 (1982)
New Zealand
- "Shirlana", Mandrake the Magician #220 and Mandrake the Magician #221 (1959)
Spain
- "Lady Shirlana", Serie Amarilla #2 (1959)
Sweden
- "Shirlana", Serie-pressen #19 (1972)
United Kingdom
- "Mandrake meets Shirlana", Mandrake the Magician #14 (1961)
Yugoslavia
- "Размажена насљедница" (romanized as "Razmažena nasljednica", Politikin Zabavnik #1079 (1972)