The Tourist

The Tourist
Start date:	January 3, 1955
End date:	April 2, 1955
# of strips:	78 (13 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"The Enchantress"
Followed by:	"The Inventor"

"The Tourist" is the 80th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

A strange man walking around selling pills that make people 20 years younger.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar, few pictures only.
• The Police Chief
• The Tourist

One-time characters

• Eb, a farmer.
• Maggy, Eb's wife.
• Pete, a police man at S.S. Dept.
• Much, a gang member.
• Jake, a gang member.
• Gus, a police man.
• Wardens, time wardens.

Locations

• New York
  • S.S. Dept.
  • The Danceland.
  • The National Bank.

Behind the scenes

• The title for the story taken from the strip of January 3, 1955 (Beginning: The Tourist).

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "The Tourist", Mandrake Comic #25 (1957)

Brazil

• "O Turista", Mandrake #15 (1955)
• "O Turista", Mandrake #283 (1979)
• "O Turista", Mandrake Coleção #15 (1990)

Denmark

• "Turisten", Fantomet #164 (1981)

Finland

• "Turisti tulevaisuudesta", Sarjakuvalehti #10 (1963)
• "Turisti", Mustanaamio #18 (1978)
• "Turisti", Sarjakirja #1 (1988)

France

• "L'homme qui revient du futur",Spécial Mandrake #58 (1968)
• "L'homme qui revient du futur", Mandrake le Magicien - L'intégrale 1 (Soleil) (1993)

Greece

• "Ο ταξιδιωτησ του διαστηματοσ", ΒΕΛΟΣ #87 (1970)

Italy

• "L’uomo che ritorna dal futuro", Il Vascello #13 (1959)
• "L’uomo che ritorna dal futuro", I Classici dell'Avventura #29 (1963)
• "L’uomo che ritorna dal futuro", Special Mandrake #186 (1966)
• "L’uomo che torna dal futuro", Mandrake - New Comics Now #331 (1994)

Norway

• "Turisten", Fantomet#06 (1983)
• "Turisten", Serie-pocket #138 (1988)

Portugal

• "Estranho Turista", Mundo de Aventuras #369 to Mundo de Aventuras #385 (1956)

Sweden

• "Turisten", Fantomen #25 (1977)

United Kingdom

• "The Tourist", Mandrake the Magician #11 (1961)

Yugoslavia

• "Мистериозни туриста" (romanized as "Misteriozni turista"), Politikin Zabavnik #957 (1970)