The Search for the Cobra

The Search for the Cobra
Start date:	November 4th, 1974
End date:	January 18th, 1975
# of strips:	66 (11 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Fred Fredericks
Preceded by:	"The Cobra and the Cube"
Followed by:	"The Thieves"

"The Search for the Cobra" is the 159th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.

Plot Summary

In a distant dark place the Cobra trying to make a crystal cube, a mental-power amplifier. The Cobra and his home-made crystal cube becomes more and more powerful.

Using his own cube Mandrake manages to trace the Cobra and destroy his secret hideout. Did the Cobra survived the attack?

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar
• Narda, at Xanadu only.
• Karma, at Xanadu only.
• The Cobra
• Ud
• Jed

One-time characters

Locations

• New York
• Xanadu
• College of Magic
• Koqania, tiny nation.

Objects

• The Crystal Cube

Behind the scenes

• The story title is taken from the strip of November 2, 1974 (Beginning next week: The Search for the Cobra!).

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

India

• "The Horror of Cobra" Diamond Comics Digest - Mandrake #6 (1992)
• "The Horror of Cobra" Diamond Comics Digest - Mandrake #53 (1997)

Spain

• "El Origen de el Cobra", Mandrake - Merlin el Mago #5 and #6 (1980/1981)

USA

• "The Search for the Cobra", The Menomonee Falls Gazette from #153 to #163 (1974/1975)

Yugoslavia

• "Gospodar tuđih snova", Super EKS Almanah #19 (1981)