Mandrake (Tay)

Mandrake was the regular series of Mandrake comic books published by the Turkish publisher Tay Yayınları. A total of 316 issues were released from 1974 to late 1980's. Cover illustrations were by Turkish artists, the most prolific being Aslan Şükür.

History

First series (1974-1979)

The first issue is dated July 8, 1974 and the last (#250) on May 13, 1979. The issues in this weekly publication had 52, 44 and 34 pages. The stories have been newspaper strip stories.

Unsold issues were collected in albums later, 3 issues per album.

After the weekly run of the magazine ceased, the albums continued (#82 to #231) their run with reprints and occasional brand new adventures of Fred Fredericks, Phil Davis and a few stories from Fratelli Spada artists for several additional years.

Issue overview

Regular series

1974	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
1975	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78
1976	79	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	100	101	102	103	104	105	106	107	108	109	110	111	112	113	114	115	116	117	118	119	120	121	122	123	124	125	126	127	128	129	130	131
1977	132	133	134	135	136	137	138	139	140	141	142	143	144	145	146	147	148	149	150	151	152	153	154	155	156	157	158	159	160	161	162	163	164	165	166	167	168	169	170	171	172	173	174	175	176	177	178	179	180	181	182	183
1978	184	185	186	187	188	189	190	191	192	193	194	195	196	197	198	199	200	201	202	203	204	205	206	207	208	209	210	211	212	213	214	215	216	217	218	219	220	221	222	223	224	225	226	227	228	229	230	231	232	233	234	235
1979	236	237	238	239	240	241	242	243	244	245	246	247	248	249	250

Second series

This weekly series did not have any printed publishing dates. On the covers one find the text KDV Dahil. Turkey introduced value-added tax (VAT) from the 1st of January 1985, so the second Mandrake series was published after this date.

Issues in this series had 52 pages with newspaper stories by Lee Falk and Fred Fredericks. Unsold issues were collected into Süper Albüms later.

After the weekly run of the magazine ceased, the Süper Albüms continued (#21 to #80) their run with reprints and occasional brand new adventures of Fred Fredericks and Phil Davis.

Süper Albüms had one more series (#1 to #33).

Issue overview

Regular series

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44
45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64	65	66