City of Gold

City of Gold
Start date:	February 5th, 1939
End date:	August 6th, 1939
# of strips:	162 (27 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"The Clairvoyant"
Followed by:	"The Evil Man"

"City of Gold" is the 11th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

Mandrake and Lothar joins Dr. Cole and his daughter on their search for the legendary City of Gold.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar

One-time characters

• Dr, Cole,
• Babs, daughter of Cole.
• Tragor, oldes man of the cliff-dwellers.

Locations

• New York
• Baden Ferry
• The headwaters of the Amazon
  • The City of Gold

Behind the scenes

• The title for the story is taken from the plot.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "Mandrake Discovers the City of Gold", The Supercomic Series #16 (1949)

Brazil

• "Mandrake no Amazonas", Gibi #35, #38, #41, #47 and ? (1939)

France

• "Mandrake dans la ville d'or", Robinson (1940)
• "La ville d'or", Spécial Mandrake #84 (1970)

Italy

• "Mandrake nella città d'oro", L'Avventura (1948-1949)
• "La città d'oro", Super Albo # 20 (1962)

Poland

• "??", Świat Przygód #??-?? (1937-1939)

Spain

• "Mandrake en la Ciudad de Oro", Mandrake #5 (1999)

Turkey

• "Altın Şehirde", Afacan #1 - 21 (1942)

USA

• King Comics (1940)
• "no title", Feature Book #46 (1946)

Yugoslavia

• "Legenda o zlatnom gradu", Biblioteka Nostalgija #3 (1985)