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|Title= Tale of Aleena | |Title= Tale of Aleena | ||
|image= | |image= [[Image:md-1973-09-10.png|400 px]] | ||
|Start= September 10, 1973 | |Start= September 10, 1973 | ||
|End= January 19, 1974 | |End= January 19, 1974 | ||
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== Plot Summary == | == Plot Summary == | ||
One day Karma is alone on Xanadu strange things begin to happen - a pen starts to write by itself. | |||
Mandrake comes home and reads what the pen has written all by itself: "''Mandrake, Contact me at once. Urgent. Aleena''." Mandrake told [[Karma]] that Aleena had been one of the few girls studying at the "College of Magic," and that he and Aleena had been friends and classmates. When they were seventeen, they became lovers; Mandrake described it as puppy love. | |||
Mandrake tried to locate her mentally but failed. He used his Crystal Cube to contact Theron, hoping he knew Aleena's whereabouts. Theron was not fond of Aleena, describing her as a frivolous and vain woman who had misused her powers, mainly to attract husbands. She had been married and divorced six times, and Theron warned Mandrake that she was likely looking for her seventh husband, the true love of her youth whom she had never forgotten - Mandrake. | |||
Aleena contacted Mandrake with a mental vision, claiming she was dying, and enchanted him to follow a mental beam leading to her house. Upon his arrival, Mandrake discovered that Aleena was indeed dying, but from boredom. | |||
Aleena was accompanied by Set, a man disfigured by a lion who now served her and obeyed her every command. She recounted how, many years ago, Set had been jealous of a lion tamer who admired her. In an attempt to win her attention, Set had entered the lion's cage but was attacked and disfigured. Since then, Set had followed her as a loyal servant. | |||
She also spoke of her first husband, Gurn. Although they had been together, she had grown bored and one day threw her necklace into a burning house. To prove his love, Gurn rushed into the house to retrieve it, suffering severe burns. Aleena married him mostly out of pity and spent a fortune on plastic surgery to restore his looks. After his recovery, he left her for the blonde singer Kimberly. | |||
Her second husband was Pablo, a bullfighter whom she described as brave but foolish. Her third husband was Georgeous Cyril, a wrestling champion who quit wrestling but not overeating. Her fourth husband was a deep-sea diver, but she said ''she couldn't swim''. Her fifth husband was a rich banker who went bankrupt, and her sixth husband was King Rupert, who lost his crown. Her last five husbands remained with her and Set, bewitched to serve her. | |||
Aleena lit an incense stick infused with an elixir given to her by a former admirer, a Welsh warlock. Mandrake inhaled the magical smoke and became enchanted by Aleena. She then revealed that her real goal was not Mandrake himself, but something he possessed - the Crystal Cube. | |||
Back on Xanadu, Lothar and Hojo managed to break Aleena's spell and recover the crystal cube from her clutches. Aleena and her enslaved men disappeared without a trace, leaving behind only a fiery message on the wall: "''We will meet again, Aleena.''" | |||
===Appearances=== | ===Appearances=== | ||
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*[[Lothar]] | *[[Lothar]] | ||
*[[Narda]] | *[[Narda]] | ||
*[[Karma]] | |||
*[[Hojo]], at Xanadu only. | |||
*[[Aleena]] | |||
*[[Theron]] | |||
*[[Luciphor]], mention only. | |||
'''One-time characters''' | '''One-time characters''' | ||
*Jet, Aleena's pet panther. | |||
*Sath, Aleena's boyfriend. | |||
*Gurn, Aleena's first husbond. | |||
*Kimberly, a blond singer and Gurn's new girlfriend. | |||
*Pablo, bullfighter and Aleena's second husbond. | |||
*Gorgeous Cyril, wrestling champion and Aleena's third husbond. | |||
*King Rupert, Aleena's sixth husbond. | |||
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'''Locations''' | '''Locations''' | ||
*[[Xanadu]] | |||
*[[Collegium Magikos|College of Magic]] | |||
'''Objects''' | |||
*[[The Crystal Cube]] | |||
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== | ==Behind the scenes== | ||
=== | ===Title=== | ||
*The story title is taken from the strip of September 25, 1973 (Tomorrow: "Tale of Aleena"). | |||
=== | ===Mandrake Lore=== | ||
*9-3355 are the phone number to Mandrake's study. | |||
*Theron is about 305 years old, and said that he has had fifteen wives during his 250 first years. | |||
*Theron had over twenty children, three of whom are now alive. | |||
*Theron's father lived to be 408 years old. | |||
===Real Life References=== | |||
*Kimberly, ''named'' after Kimberly Farr who played Narda in the musical "Mandrake the Magician and the Enchantress"? | |||
**The name is also used in a daily Phantom story from 1984, "The Kimberly Diamonds". | |||
== Reprints == | == Reprints == | ||
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*"Mandrake Através do Tempo e do Espaço", [[Mandrake Especial (RGE)|''Mandrake Especial'']] (1974) | *"Mandrake Através do Tempo e do Espaço", [[Mandrake Especial (RGE)|''Mandrake Especial'']] (1974) | ||
=== [[Image: | === [[Image:mini_finland.gif]] Finland === | ||
*" | *"Noitanainen", [[Mustanaamio 11/1987|''Mustanaamio'' #11]] and [[Mustanaamio 12/1987| #12]] (1987) | ||
*" | |||
=== [[Image:mini_france.gif]] France === | |||
*"Le chateau des enchantements", [[Mandrake (Mondes Mystérieux) 436|''Mandrake'' #436]] (1977) | |||
=== [[Image:mini_india.gif]] India === | |||
*"Spell of the Enchantress", [[Indrajal Comics Vol. 24 No. 52|''Indrajal Comics'' Vol. 24 No. 52]] (1987) | |||
=== [[Image:mini_italy.gif]] Italy === | |||
*"Il castello degli incantesimi", [[Mandrake - Il Vascello – Serie Cronologica 81|''Mandrake'' #81]] (1977) | |||
=== [[Image:mini_portugal.gif]] Portugal === | |||
*"A Feiticeira Alina", [[Mundo de Aventuras 99 (second series)|''Mundo de Aventuras'' #99]] (1975) | |||
=== [[Image:mini_spain.gif]] Spain === | |||
*"Alina", [[Supercomics Garbo 11|''Supercomics Garbo'' #11]] and [[Supercomics Garbo 14| #14]] (1976) | |||
*"Alina la Hechicera", [[Comics-Art - Mandrake (Merlin el Mago) 2|''Mandrake - Merlin el Mago'' #2]] and [[Comics-Art - Mandrake (Merlin el Mago) 3| #3]] (1980) | |||
=== [[Image:mini_sweden.gif]] Sweden === | |||
*"Trollkvinnan", [[Fantomen 23/1986|''Fantomen'' #23]] (1986) | |||
=== [[Image:mini_turkey.gif]] Turkey === | === [[Image:mini_turkey.gif]] Turkey === | ||
*"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake 49 (Tay)|''Mandrake'' #49]] [[Mandrake 50 (Tay)| #50]] [[Mandrake 51 (Tay)| #51]] [[Mandrake 52 (Tay)| #52]] (1975) | *"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake 49 (Tay)|''Mandrake'' #49]], [[Mandrake 50 (Tay)| #50]], [[Mandrake 51 (Tay)| #51]] and [[Mandrake 52 (Tay)| #52]] (1975) | ||
*"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake Albüm 17 (Tay)|''Mandrake Albüm'' #17]] | *"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake Albüm 17 (Tay)|''Mandrake Albüm'' #17]] and [[Mandrake Albüm 18 (Tay)| #18]] | ||
*"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake Albüm 88 (Tay)|''Mandrake Albüm'' #88]] | *"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake Albüm 88 (Tay)|''Mandrake Albüm'' #88]] and [[Mandrake Albüm 89 (Tay)| #89]] | ||
*"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake 65 (Tay second series)|''Mandrake'' #65]] [[Mandrake 66 (Tay second series)| #66]] | *"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake Albüm 226 (Tay)|''Mandrake Albüm'' #226]] and [[Mandrake Albüm 227 (Tay)| #227]] | ||
*"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake 65 (Tay second series)|''Mandrake'' #65]] and [[Mandrake 66 (Tay second series)| #66]] | |||
*"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake Süper Albüm 20 (Tay)|''Mandrake Süper Albüm'' #20]] | *"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake Süper Albüm 20 (Tay)|''Mandrake Süper Albüm'' #20]] | ||
*"Güzel Büyücü", [[Mandrake Süper Albüm 80 (Tay)|''Mandrake Süper Albüm'' #80]] | |||
=== [[Image:mini_usa.gif]] USA === | |||
*"Tale of Aleena", [[The Menomonee Falls Gazette 93|''The Menomonee Falls Gazette'' from #93]] to [[The Menomonee Falls Gazette 111| #111]] (1973/1974) | |||
*"Tale of Aleena", [[The Daily Strips Mandrake Series / Episode: "Tale of Aleena" (Pacific Comics Club)|''The Daily Strips Mandrake Series / Episode: "Tale of Aleena" (Pacific Comics Club)'']] (2018) | |||
=== [[Image:mini_yugoslavia.png|border]] Yugoslavia=== | |||
*"Opasnost - mirisni tamjan!", [[Super EKS Almanah 18|''Super EKS Almanah'' #18]] (1981) | |||
*"Opasnost - mirisni tamjan!", [[Mandrakov magazin 16|''Mandrakov magazin'' #16]] (1990) | |||
[[Category:Daily stories|Tale of Aleena]] | [[Category:Daily stories|Tale of Aleena]] |
Latest revision as of 19:43, 24 July 2024
Tale of Aleena | |
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Start date: | September 10, 1973 |
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End date: | January 19, 1974 |
# of strips: | 114 (19 weeks) |
Writer: | Lee Falk |
Artist: | Fred Fredericks |
Preceded by: | "The Incredible Thief" |
Followed by: | "Super-Elec" |
"Tale of Aleena" is the 155th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.
Plot Summary
One day Karma is alone on Xanadu strange things begin to happen - a pen starts to write by itself.
Mandrake comes home and reads what the pen has written all by itself: "Mandrake, Contact me at once. Urgent. Aleena." Mandrake told Karma that Aleena had been one of the few girls studying at the "College of Magic," and that he and Aleena had been friends and classmates. When they were seventeen, they became lovers; Mandrake described it as puppy love.
Mandrake tried to locate her mentally but failed. He used his Crystal Cube to contact Theron, hoping he knew Aleena's whereabouts. Theron was not fond of Aleena, describing her as a frivolous and vain woman who had misused her powers, mainly to attract husbands. She had been married and divorced six times, and Theron warned Mandrake that she was likely looking for her seventh husband, the true love of her youth whom she had never forgotten - Mandrake.
Aleena contacted Mandrake with a mental vision, claiming she was dying, and enchanted him to follow a mental beam leading to her house. Upon his arrival, Mandrake discovered that Aleena was indeed dying, but from boredom.
Aleena was accompanied by Set, a man disfigured by a lion who now served her and obeyed her every command. She recounted how, many years ago, Set had been jealous of a lion tamer who admired her. In an attempt to win her attention, Set had entered the lion's cage but was attacked and disfigured. Since then, Set had followed her as a loyal servant.
She also spoke of her first husband, Gurn. Although they had been together, she had grown bored and one day threw her necklace into a burning house. To prove his love, Gurn rushed into the house to retrieve it, suffering severe burns. Aleena married him mostly out of pity and spent a fortune on plastic surgery to restore his looks. After his recovery, he left her for the blonde singer Kimberly.
Her second husband was Pablo, a bullfighter whom she described as brave but foolish. Her third husband was Georgeous Cyril, a wrestling champion who quit wrestling but not overeating. Her fourth husband was a deep-sea diver, but she said she couldn't swim. Her fifth husband was a rich banker who went bankrupt, and her sixth husband was King Rupert, who lost his crown. Her last five husbands remained with her and Set, bewitched to serve her.
Aleena lit an incense stick infused with an elixir given to her by a former admirer, a Welsh warlock. Mandrake inhaled the magical smoke and became enchanted by Aleena. She then revealed that her real goal was not Mandrake himself, but something he possessed - the Crystal Cube.
Back on Xanadu, Lothar and Hojo managed to break Aleena's spell and recover the crystal cube from her clutches. Aleena and her enslaved men disappeared without a trace, leaving behind only a fiery message on the wall: "We will meet again, Aleena."
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- Jet, Aleena's pet panther.
- Sath, Aleena's boyfriend.
- Gurn, Aleena's first husbond.
- Kimberly, a blond singer and Gurn's new girlfriend.
- Pablo, bullfighter and Aleena's second husbond.
- Gorgeous Cyril, wrestling champion and Aleena's third husbond.
- King Rupert, Aleena's sixth husbond.
Behind the scenes
Title
- The story title is taken from the strip of September 25, 1973 (Tomorrow: "Tale of Aleena").
Mandrake Lore
- 9-3355 are the phone number to Mandrake's study.
- Theron is about 305 years old, and said that he has had fifteen wives during his 250 first years.
- Theron had over twenty children, three of whom are now alive.
- Theron's father lived to be 408 years old.
Real Life References
- Kimberly, named after Kimberly Farr who played Narda in the musical "Mandrake the Magician and the Enchantress"?
- The name is also used in a daily Phantom story from 1984, "The Kimberly Diamonds".
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Brazil
- "Mandrake Através do Tempo e do Espaço", Mandrake Especial (1974)
Finland
- "Noitanainen", Mustanaamio #11 and #12 (1987)
France
- "Le chateau des enchantements", Mandrake #436 (1977)
India
- "Spell of the Enchantress", Indrajal Comics Vol. 24 No. 52 (1987)
Italy
- "Il castello degli incantesimi", Mandrake #81 (1977)
Portugal
- "A Feiticeira Alina", Mundo de Aventuras #99 (1975)
Spain
- "Alina", Supercomics Garbo #11 and #14 (1976)
- "Alina la Hechicera", Mandrake - Merlin el Mago #2 and #3 (1980)
Sweden
- "Trollkvinnan", Fantomen #23 (1986)
Turkey
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake #49, #50, #51 and #52 (1975)
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake Albüm #17 and #18
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake Albüm #88 and #89
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake Albüm #226 and #227
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake #65 and #66
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake Süper Albüm #20
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake Süper Albüm #80
USA
- "Tale of Aleena", The Menomonee Falls Gazette from #93 to #111 (1973/1974)
- "Tale of Aleena", The Daily Strips Mandrake Series / Episode: "Tale of Aleena" (Pacific Comics Club) (2018)
Yugoslavia
- "Opasnost - mirisni tamjan!", Super EKS Almanah #18 (1981)
- "Opasnost - mirisni tamjan!", Mandrakov magazin #16 (1990)