Grit

Grit was a weekly newspaper, popular in the rural U.S., founded in December 1882. It carried the subtitle "America's Greatest Family Newspaper" and targeted small town and rural families with, by 1932, a circulation of 425,000 in 48 states (83% of its circulation was in towns of fewer than 10,000 inhabitants)

It introduces such delivery innovations as selling across the country by children and teenagers - many recruited by ads in comic books from the 1940's to the 1970's- as well as through direct mail,

At differents periods and always in black-and-white, such classics as "Blondie", "Donald Duck", "Flash Gordon", "Henry", "Joe Palooka", "Jungle Jim", "The Lone Ranger", "Mandrake the Magician", "Prince Valiant", were published amongst others.

In 1995 it became a a bi-monthly magazine.

"Mandrake the Magician" was published in "Grit" from 1947 to 1970.

Published stories

#	Original story title	Start date	End date	Comment
35	"Kingdom of Marvel"	?	7 Sep 1947	(best older date known: 6 Apr 1947, but remains to verify)
36	"The Blue Bandit"	14 Sep 1947	1 Feb 1948
37	"The Prince Who Never Smiled"	8 Feb 1948	4 Apr 1948
38	"City of Jewels Pt.1: The Polar Bear Pirates"	11 Apr 1948	20 Jun 1948
39	"City of Jewels Pt.2: The Ice Demons"	27 Jun 1948	5 Sep 1948
40	"City of Jewels Pt.3: Conclusion"	12 Sep 1948	14 Nov 1948
41	"The Raft People"	21 Nov 1948	23 Jan 1949
42	"Fear Island"	30 Jan 1949	1 May 1949
43	"The Mystery of the Big Trees"	8 May 1949	7 Aug 1949
44	"Jungle Adventure"	14 Aug 1949	4 Jun 1950
45	"The Ghost Whale"	11 Jun 1950	27 Aug 1950
46	"The Department Store Mystery"	3 Sep 1950	22 Oct 1950
47	"Curse of the Kavrun Emerald"	29 Oct 1950	14 Jan 1951
48	"The Venus Flytrap"	21 Jan 1951	11 Mar 1951
49	"Mystery of the Vanishing Homes"	18 Mar 1951	20 May 1951
50	"The Spaceship to Venus"	27 May 1951	28 Oct 1951
51	"The Caribbean Mystery"	4 Nov 1951	16 Dec 1951
52	"The Jungle Fullback"	23 Dec 1951	17 Feb 1952
53	"Taboo Land"	24 Feb 1952	6 Jul 1952
54	"The Doorway to Z"	13 Jul 1952	16 Nov 1952
55	"The Hide-out"	23 Nov 1952	18 Jan 1953
56	"The Visitors"	25 Jan 1953	7 Jun 1953
57	"The Water Champ"	14 Jun 1953	5 Jul 1953
58	"Mandrake's Magic House"	12 Jul 1953	27 Sep 1953
59	"Mandrake Plays Cupid"	4 Oct 1953	22 Nov 1953
60	"Rex (The Living Fossil)"	29 Nov 1953	4 Apr 1954
61	"The Mountain that Walked"	11 Apr 1954	23 May 1954
62	"The Tomb"	30 May 1954	18 Jul 1954
63	"The Ocean Wind"	25 Jul 1954	12 Dec 1954
64	"The Sleeping Forest"	19 Dec 1954	13 Mar 1955
65	"Isle of the Giant"	20 Mar 1955	22 May 1955
66	"Universal Love"	29 May 1955	7 Aug 1955
67	"Magnetic Island"	14 Aug 1955	20 Nov 1955
68	"The Castaway"	27 Nov 1955	12 Feb 1956
69	"City in the Deep"	19 Feb 1956	3 Jun 1956
70	"Witchmen's Peak"	10 Jun 1956	11 Nov 1956
71	"The Miss Galaxy Beauty Contest"	18 Nov 1956	9 Jun 1957
72	"The Casino"	Falk	4 Aug 1957
73	"The Place Called X"	11 Aug 1957	29 Dec 1957
74	"The Invaders"	5 Jan 1958	20 Apr 1958
75	"The Mesa"	27 Apr 1958	6 Jul 1958
76	"The Birthday Party"	13 Jul 1958	30 Nov 1958
77	"The Invisible Thief"	7 Dec 1958	15 Mar 1959
78	"The Watcher"	22 Mar 1959	5 Jul 1959
79	"The Old West Revisited"	12 Jul 1959	30 Aug 1959
80	"The Horse Thief"	6 Sep 1959	15 Nov 1959
81	"The Abominable Snowman"	22 Nov 1959	1 May 1960
82	"The Demon Photographer"	8 May 1960	24 Jul 1960
83	"The Radio Telescope"	31 Jul 1960	7 Aug 1960
84	"The Water Pirates"	14 Aug 1960	4 Dec 1960
85	"Sky Raid"	11 Dec 1960	5 Feb 1961
86	"The Summit Conference"	12 Feb 1961	28 May 1961
87	"The Space Thing"	4 Jun 1961	24 Sep 1961
88	"The Diversion"	1 Oct 1961	10 Dec 1961
89	"The Collector"	17 Dec 1961	29 Apr 1962
90	"Task Test"	6 May 1962	9 Sep 1962
91	"The Trade Commission (The Blue Planet)"	16 Sep 1962	10 Mar 1963
92	"The Ghost Lover"	17 Mar 1963	1 Sep 1963
93	"The Double"	8 Sep 1963	19 Jan 1964
94	"The Castaway"	26 Jan 1964	9 Aug 1964
95	"The Mole"	16 Aug 1964	14 Mar 1965
96	"The Traveller's Tale"	21 Mar 1965	22 Aug 1965
97	"The Cobra Returns"	29 Aug 1965	3 Apr 1966
98	"The Underworld vs. Inter-Intel"	10 Apr 1966	7 Aug 1966
99	"The Astro Pirates"	14 Aug 1966	25 Dec 1966
100	"The Blackout Caper"	1 Jan 1967	23 Apr 1967
101	"The Meeting of Mandrake and Lothar"	30 Apr 1967	24 Sep 1967
102	"The Game of Chance"	1 Oct 1967	11 Feb 1968
103	"Invasion of the Babu"	18 Feb 1968	21 Jul 1968
104	"Second Chance"	28 Jul 1968	3 Nov 1968
105	"The All or Nothing Hunt"	10 Nov 1968	30 Mar 1969
106	"The Galactic Rumble"	6 Apr 1969	7 Sep 1969
107	"The Invaders"	14 Sep 1969	11 Jan 1970
108	"The 3D Monster"	18 Jan 1970	(ending on 5 Apr, 1970)	see on left, last Mandrake strip in Grit

Samples

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  issue April 6, 1947 / All Sunday page panels on a single strip at the bottom of the page

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  issue September 4, 1949 / Usual presentation

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  issue June 17, 1951 / Comics - Full page

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  issue August 23, 1953 / Mandrake stip

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  issue August 23, 1953 / Mandrake stip

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  issue July 8, 1962 / Mandrake stip

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  issue June 25, 1967 / Mandrake - Full page

Views (about specific selling process)

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External links

• [1] Wikipedia article.