Mandrake roi de la magie (CELEG) 1

Mandrake Roi de la magie #1 (Les débuts d'un détective privé)
Cover artist: Phil Davis (from story art)
Country/language:	France / Italian
Format:	30 × 22 cm
Pages:	152 pgs, b/w
Publishing date:	June, 1965
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Publishing company:	CÉLEG
Preceded by:	Mandrake roi de la Magie #2
Followed by:	Mandrake roi de la Magie #23

Contents

Mandrake stories

• "L'homme du mystère" ("The Cobra") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
• "Le mystère de la maison de jeu" ("The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda)") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.

Article

• "About: Mandrake" by Lee Falk.

Notes

• This special issue, released in 1965 by CELEG ("Centre d'Étude des Littératures d'Expression Graphique") (="Studies Center of Graphic Expression",a nostalgia comics club), was not intended for public distribution but reserved to CELEG's club members. Few copies were printed as 250 were numbered from #1 to #250 for subscribers and 26 were numbered from A to Z for founder members.
• Even if it was relased for the French collectors market, the strips were in Italian language (Italian story titles : "L'uomo del mistero" & "Il mistero della casa da giuoco"), as none previous versions of these daily strips had been published in France before.
• Inside, the book is sub-titled "Les débuts d'un détective privé" ("The beginnings of a private detective").
• Strips are printed only on the right side pages of the book, the left pages being blank
• Strangely enough, this volume 1 was printed after the preceding volume which was presented as volume 2.