Story

Story was Belgian weekly popular tabloid comic published from 1945 until 1951. It was published in Brussels by the "Editions du Pont Levis". Like many Belgian magazines, it was also published in a Flemish / Dutch version.

History

From the issue #1 on June 21, 1945 one find "Mandrake the Magician" alongside the usual American comics of the review like – amongst others - "The Katzenjammer Kids", "Popeye", "Big Ben Bolt", "Tim Tyler’s Luck", "Flash Gordon", "The Phantom", "The Lone Ranger", as well as some Belgian or Dutch comics.

In the French edition was named "Mandrake roi de la magie" and in the Dutch version he had several names "Mandrake koning der toovenaars", "Mandrake koning der tovenaars" and "Mandrake de wonderman".

Apart the comics, published in colour for most of them, half of the magazine consisted of articles written about film, new writing and games. The issues were also glued together to form thirteen separate albums from the issues #1 to the issue # 301. In 1948 one also find 2 issues of a second album serie (Série no 1 / 1ste Reeks) where issues # 161 to the issue # 180 were glued together.

Published stories

Original story title	Start issue	End issue	Comment
"The Visit" (filler page)
"The Annoying" (filler page)
"The Flying Pass By" (filler page)
"The Clairvoyant" (filler page)
"City of Gold"	4 (?)
"The Evil Man" (filler page)
"Trial of Strenght" (filler page)
"The Cure" (filler page)
"Lothar go Fishing" (filler page)
"The Dishonest Merchant" (filler page)
"The Ghost Bear of Glass Mountain"
"Mandrake and Doubting Thomas" (filler page)
"Lothar at the Dentist" (filler page)
"The Concert" (filler page)
"Mandrake and the Burglar" (filler page)
"The Music Lession" (filler page)
"The Theatre Mysteries"
"The Flame Pearls Pt.1: Attempted Assassination"
"The Flame Pearls Pt.2: Magnetic Island"
"The Flame Pearls Pt.3: The Three Cows"
"The Swordfish" (filler page)
"The Flame Pearls Pt.4: The Amazons"
"The Flame Pearls Pt.5: The Ghost Ship"
"The Flame Pearls Pt.6: The Witch of Tago"
"The Flame Pearls Pt.7: Land of the Giants"
"The Flame Pearls Pt.8: The Hungry Isles"
"Pacifica"
"Mystery of the Girls with Red Hair"
"Cloud City"
"Gloria Golden"
"The Garden of Wuzzu"
"The Circus Adventure"
"The Santa Claus Pirates"
"Fountain of Youth"
"Kingdom of the Wind"
"The Atalan Deep"
"The Twins of Karana"
"The Singing Devils"
"Roc Island"
"Kingdom of Marvel"
"The Blue Bandit"
"The Prince Who Never Smiled"
"City of Jewels Pt.1: The Polar Bear Pirates"
"City of Jewels Pt.2: The Ice Demons"
"City of Jewels Pt.3: Conclusion"
"The Raft People"
"Fear Island"
"The Mystery of the Big Trees"
"Jungle Adventure"
"The Ghost Whale"
"The Department Store Mystery"
"Curse of the Kavrun Emerald"
"The Venus Flytrap"
"Mystery of the Vanishing Homes"
"The Spaceship to Venus"
"The Caribbean Mystery"

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