Collana Albi grandi avventure (2)

Mandrake, Il mistero della casa da gioco
Cover artist: Giove Toppi second variant
Country/language:	Italy / Italian
Format:	31,5 × 22,6 cm
Pages:	28 pgs, b/w
Publishing date:	February, 1936
Editor:	unknown
Publishing company:	Casa Editrice Nerbini
Preceded by:	Mandrake #1
Followed by:	Mandrake #3

The first seven issues of this series have no title, but are later known as Collana Albi grandi avventure #2.

Contents

Mandrake stories

• "Il mistero della casa da giuoco" ("The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda)") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis. (note: Narda is named Daran in this story!)

Variants

There are two different variants of the cover for this issue:

• First variant: with the date February 1936 and price tag L. 1 printed on the front cover.
• Second variant: with the date February 1936 and price tag L. 1 printed on the back cover.

Interesting both variants were printed by "Stabiilimente Grafici Vallecchi" and the titles listed as back issues are identical. Which indicates that both variants were printed in February 1936. The first variant also exists with back list titles from May 1936, which indicates a new print about this time. There might exist several other prints since this issue is back listed til the end of 1938.

Back covers

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  First variant

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  Second variant

Reprint

Reprinted in 1976, in format 34 x 24,5 cm. The back list on the reverse indicating that the source for the 1976 reprint was the original first variant.

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  1976 reprint

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  back cover