Mandrake and the Haunted House

Mandrake and the Haunted House
Start date:	May 16th, 1938
End date:	July 9th, 1938
# of strips:	48 (8 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"Sonny the Child Movie Star"
Followed by:	"Blozz the Champion"

"Mandrake and the Haunted House" is the 13th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis. This story exists in two variants, one made to span six newspaper columns, the other to span five.

Plot Summary

A young lady crashed into Mandrake's house on a horse. Ellen has inherited the Willows from her her grandfather, but the house is haunted.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar

One-time characters

• Ellen
• Don, Ellen's fiancé.
• Lily Bell, Ellen's housekeeper.
• Mrs. Woods, previous owner of the Willows.

Locations

• New York (?)
  • Willows at Barker Road

Behind the scenes

Title

• The title for the story is taken from the plot.

Signifiant covers

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Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Brazil

• "A Casa Mal-Assombrada", Almanaque do Mandrake (1962)
• "O Casarão Assombrado", Mandrake, o Mágico #3 (1970)
• "A Herança", Mandrake #241 (1976)
• "A Herdeira", Mandrake Coleção #8 (1990)

Canada

• (no given title), Classic Adventure Strips #6 (1986)

Denmark

• "Mandrake og det forheksede hus", Seriebiblioteket #1 (1976)

France

• "L'homme panthère",Spécial Mandrake #44 (1967)

Italy

• "L'uomo dal viso pantera", L'Avventuroso #311 - #318 (1940)
• "L'uomo dal muso di pantera", Mandrake #27 (1948)
• "L'uomo pantera", Mandrake #37 (1963)
• "L'uomo pantera", Special Mandrake #174 (1966)
• "L'uomo pantera", Mandrake (1972)
• "La casa stregata", Mandrake (Garzanti) (1972)
• "no title", L'olimpo dei fumetti #14 (1973)
• "L'uomo dal viso pantera", Collana Albi grandi avventure #16 (1975)
• "La casa degli spettri", Mandrake #8 (Comics Stars in the World 1976)
• "La casa degli spettri", Mandrake - New Comics Now #118 (1984)
• "La casa degli spettri", Mandrake 12 (Comic Art) (1992)
• "La casa degli spettri", Mandrake il mago Volume 2 (2015)

French Polynesia

• "La casa degli spettri", Mandrake #8 (Comics Stars in the World 1976) note: Italian text.

New Zealand

• "Mandrake and the Haunted House", Mandrake the Magician #64 (1954)

Norway

• "no title", Seriebiblioteket #1 (1976)

Portugal

• "Os Falsos Fantasmas", Ciclone #82 (196?)

Spain

• "no title" ("La casa embrujada" on back cover), Mandrake el mago (1981)
• "La casa de los espectros", Grandes Clásicos de los Comics del Pasado #33 - Mandrake #9 (1986)

Sweden

• no title, Seriebiblioteket #1 (1976)

Turkey

• "Tekinsiz Evin Esrarı", 1001 Roman - Özel Sayı #10 (1940)
• "Perili Evin Esrarı", 1001 Özel #176 (1956)

USA

• "no title", Feature Book #19 (1946)
• "Mandrake and the Haunted House", The Golden Age of the Comics #7 (1970)
• "Mandrake in Hollywood", The Official Mandrake the Magician #2 – The Official Mandrake the Magician #3 (1988)
• "no title", Feature Books #19 (1993, reprint)
• "Mandrake and the Haunted House", Comics Revue #397-398 – #405-406 (2019/2020)
• "Mandrake and the Haunted House", Volume Three: the complete newspaper dailies 1938-1939 (2025)

Yugoslavia

• "Tajanstvena kuća", Jutarnji list August 31, 1938 – October 2, 1938
• "Зачарана кућа" (romanized as "Začarana kuća"), Politikin Zabavnik #1167 (1974)