Mandrake in North Africa

Mandrake in North Africa
Start date:	September 4th, 1939
End date:	December 23rd, 1939
# of strips:	96 (16 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"Mandrake in Cockaigne"
Followed by:	"The Mountain Bandits"

"Mandrake in North Africa" is the 19th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

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Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar

One-time characters

• Libie Carr
• Captain Tod Brownell
• Besa
• Colonel Carr
• Narob

Locations

Behind the scenes

Lothar become King of Wambesi, one of the major tribes in the land of the Phantom.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "Mandrake in Africa", The Supercomic Series #34 (1950)

Brazil

• "Mandrake na África", Mandrake #238 (1976)
• "Mandrake na África", Mandrake Coleção #11 (1990)

France

• "Un drame de la sorcellerie", Aventures et Mystère #54 & "Lothar 1er", Aventures et Mystère #56 (1948)
• "Le sorcier des Wambesi", Spécial Mandrake #13 (1964)

Italy

• "L'inesorabile Besa", Super Albo #98 (1964)
• "Besa lo stregone" & "Re Lothar contro Besa", Mandrake #16 & #17 (Comics Stars in the World 1977)
• "Besa, lo stregone", Mandrake - New Comics Now #148 (1985)
• "Besa, lo stregone", Mandrake 16 (Comic Art) (1992)

French Polynesia

• "Besa lo stregone" & "Re Lothar contro Besa", Mandrake #16 & #17 (Comics Stars in the World 1977) note: Italian text.

Spain

• "Besa el hechicero", Mandrake #11 (198?)

USA

*"no title", The Official Mandrake #10 – #11 – #12 (1989)

Yugoslavia

• (romanized as "Princ Lotar"), Zabavnik #106 (1941)
• (no given title), Strip #1, #2, #3 and #4 (1951) (Note: ending with the strip of October 5, 1939)