Hop-là!

Hop-là was published weekly by the French publisher Opera Mundi in 1937 to 1940. It was a compilation of newspaper strip reprints such as "Mandrake the Magician", "Brick Bradford", "Popeye", "Prince Valiant" and others.

The issues from 1 to 52 and 95 to 132 had 8 pages, from 53 to 94 12 pages. The format was 24x34 cm changing from issue 53 to 37,5x27,5 cm.

The page with the Mandrake daily strips was in color.

Issue overview

• "Le dromadair d'argile" ("Saki, the Clay Camel"), starts in # 1-1937 and ends in # 8-1938.
• "Mandrake et le Loup-Garou" ("The Werewolf"), starts in # 9-1938 and ends in # 25-1938.
• "Frégoli du mal" ("The Return of the Clay Camel"), starts in # 26-1938 and ends in # 51-1938.
• "L'oasis d'acradi" ("The Slave Traders of Tygandi"), starts in # 52-1938 and ends in # 61-1939.
• "Voyage en préhistoire" ("Mandrake in the Lost World"), starts in # 62-1939 and ends in # 88-1939.
• "Dans les griffes du Cobra" ("In the Cobra's Grip"), starts in # 89-1939 and ends in # 121-1940.
• "Le magicien 900/ Faucon cheval de course" ("Mandrake in America"), starts in # 122-1938 and ends in # 132-1940.

Album issues

Unsold magazines was rebound into 5 albums:

• Album (## 1-26)
• Album (## 27-52)
• Album (## 53-78)
• Album (## 79-104)
• Album (## 105-??)

It seems that it was two (or more) variants of the covers in the albus series. One with Mandrake cover.

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