Pacifica

Pacifica
Start date:	April 19th, 1942
End date:	November 1st, 1942
# of strips:	29 (29 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"The Flame Pearls Pt.8: The Hungry Isles"
Followed by:	"Mystery of the Girls with Red Hair"

"Pacifica" is the 22nd Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

At a housparty in the home of the wealthy Colonel Barton, Mandrake enterains the guest. Colonel told Mandrake that he soon was leaving on a scientific expedition to the South Pacific, looking for flame colored pearls, and he wanted Mandrake to join him. Mandrake could not say now to an adventure and soon they find themself on the yacht Argos and the search for the Flame Pearls begins.

But Captain Beeker and First Mate Sims had start to plan how they could get their hands on the Flame Pearls.

Mandrake and Colonel Barton feel like some underwater exploring. Underwater Colonel Barton .., while Mandrake are attaced by a giantic octopus - and at the same time Beeker and Sims knotted Mandrake's air-line.....

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar

One-time characters

• Colonel Barton
• June, daughter of Colonel Barton.
• Argos, Colonel Barton's yacht.
• Captain Beeker, on Argos.
• First Mate Sims, on Argos.

Locations

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

USA

• King Comics (1943-1944)