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=== [[Image:mini_argentina.gif]] Argentina === | |||
*"Los hombres de las cavernas", [[Album Pif-Paf 2|''Album Pif-Paf'' #2]] (1954) | |||
*"Contra los hombres de las cavernas", [[Super Album de la Historieta #26]] (?) | |||
=== [[Image:mini_australia.gif]] Australia === | === [[Image:mini_australia.gif]] Australia === | ||
*"The Old Ones", [[Mandrake Annual 1952|''Mandrake Annual'']] (1952) | *"The Old Ones", [[Mandrake Annual 1952|''Mandrake Annual'']] (1952) | ||
=== [[Image:mini_brazil.gif]] Brazil === | === [[Image:mini_brazil.gif]] Brazil === | ||
Revision as of 08:12, 10 July 2023
| The Old Ones | |
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| Start date: | April 2nd, 1945 |
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| End date: | June 30th, 1945 |
| # of strips: | 78 (13 weeks) |
| Writer: | Lee Falk |
| Artist: | Phil Davis |
| Preceded by: | "The Ice Lady" |
| Followed by: | "The Mysterious Prince" |
"The Old Ones" is the 35th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.
Plot Summary
Mr. Digge invites our friend to see his marvel of engineering, the construction tunnel under the river. And help him to solve an odd mystery with workers that have been disappering from the tunnel.
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- Mr. Digge, chief engineer of the Mid-Town traffic tunnel
- A sabre-tooth tiger
- A tyrannosaurus rex
- Pterodactyls
- A cave bear
- Cavemen
- Senator Hook, kidnapped by the cavemen in 1909
- A giantic brontosaurus
- A giant mastodon
Locations
- New York
- Mid-Town Traffic Tunnel
- A giant cavern of natural crystal
- Mid-Town Traffic Tunnel
Behind the scenes
- The title for the story is taken from the strips of April 2, 1945 (Beginning: The Old Ones).
- Mandrake use the interjection of surprise: Great Scott!
Signifiant covers
Australia
Argentina
Brazil
Italy
Italy
Italy
New Zealand
Portugal
Spain
Spain
USA
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Argentina
- "Los hombres de las cavernas", Album Pif-Paf #2 (1954)
- "Contra los hombres de las cavernas", Super Album de la Historieta #26 (?)
Australia
- "The Old Ones", Mandrake Annual (1952)
Brazil
- "O Mistério do Túnel", Mandrake, o Mágico #18 (1972)
- "O Mistério do Túnel", Mandrake #248 (1976)
Finland
- "Maaron ja Luolaihmiset", Kippari Kalle #2 (1955)
France
- "Retour a l'âge de pierre", Spécial Mandrake #59 (1968)
- "Retour a l'âge de pierre", Spécial Mandrake Album #5 (1968)
West Germany
- "Die Höhlenmenschen", Phantom-Heft #24 (1953)
Italy
- "Nell'età della pietra", L'Avventura (1946)
- "Ritorno all'età della pietra", Super Albo #22 (1962)
- "Ritorno all'età della pietra", Special Mandrake #187 (1966)
- "Nell'etá della pietra", Mandrake - New Comics Now #214 (1988)
- "Nell'etá della pietra", Mandrake 29 (Comic Art) (1993)
New Zealand
- "The Old Ones", Mandrake the Magician #1 and Mandrake the Magician #2 (1949)
Portugal
- "Um Mundo Desconhecido", Mandrake #9 (197?)
Spain
- "Antepasados prehistóricos" & "El templo cavernícola", Merlin el Mago Moderno #41 & #42 (194?)
Sweden
- "Grottmännen", Mandrake #1 (1962)
United Kingdom
- "The Old Ones", Mandrake the Magician #2
USA
- "The Old Ones", The Classic Mandrake Series / Episode: "The Old Ones" (Pacific Comics Club) (20??)