Hop-là!
Hop-là was published weekly by the French publisher Opera Mundi in 1937 to 1940. It was a compilation of newspaper strip reprints such as "Mandrake the Magician", "Brick Bradford", "Popeye", "Prince Valiant" and others.
The issues from 1 to 52 and 95 to 132 had 8 pages, from 53 to 94 12 pages. The format was 24x34 cm changing from issue 53 to 37,5x27,5 cm. The Mandrake page was in color.
Issue overview
- "Le dromadair d'argile" ("Saki, the Clay Camel"), starts in # 1-1937 and ends in # 8-1938.
- "Mandrake et le Loup-Garou" ("The Werewolf"), starts in # 9-1938 and ends in # 25-1938.
- "Frégoli du mal" ("The Return of the Clay Camel"), starts in # 26-1938 and ends in # 51-1938.
- "L'oasis d'acradi" ("The Slave Traders of Tygandi"), starts in # 52-1938 and ends in # 61-1939.
- "Voyage en préhistoire" ("Mandrake in the Lost World"), starts in # 62-1939 and ends in # 88-1939.
- "Dans les griffes du Cobra" ("In the Cobra's Grip"), starts in # 89-1939 and ends in # 121-1940.
- "Le magicien 900/ Faucon cheval de course" ("Mandrake in America"), starts in # 122-1938 and ends in # 132-1940.
Album issues
Unsold magazines was rebound into 5 albums:
- Album (## 1-26)
- Album (## 27-52)
- Album (## 53-78)
- Album (## 79-104)
- Album (## 105-??)
It seems that it was two (or more) variants of the covers in the albus series. One with Mandrake cover.
