Space Glitch
| Space Glitch | |
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| Start date: | August 16th, 2004 |
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| End date: | January 22nd, 2005 |
| # of strips: | 138 (23 weeks) |
| Writer: | Fred Fredericks |
| Artist: | Fred Fredericks |
| Preceded by: | "Footsteps from the Past" |
| Followed by: | "Blizzard of Crime" |
"Space Glitch" is the 248th Mandrake daily story. The story was written and drawn by Fred Fredericks.
Plot Summary
Two years ago the Space Warden was to project herself and the Tourist to the year 6002. But a space glitch split them up and the Space Warden was projected beck to Earth and the Tourist to an unknown place. Now she want Mandrake to help her finding the Tourist while she recover from space debris, and suddenly Mandrake found himself in Tombstone, in the year 1881.
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- The Space Warden
- The Tourist, a gourmet from the year 6002
- Tex, a stagecoach guard
- Curley, a coachman
- Old Man Clanton, a gunfighter
- Clayton, son of Old Man and a gunfighter
- Clayton, son of Old Man and a gunfighter
- Ma Jeebles, a cook and restaurant owner
- Bumpas Clanton, son of Old Man and a gunfighter
- Wyatt Earp, the new lawman in Tombstone
Locations
- Xanadu
- Tombstone, in the year 1881
- O.K. Corral
Behind the scenes
- The title for the story is taken from the strip of August 16, 2004 (Beginning: Space Glitch).
- The Tourist first showed up in the 1955 daily story "The Tourist" and next in the 2001 Sunday story "Return of the Tourist".
- The Space Warden first showed up in the 2001 Sunday story "Return of the Tourist".
Reprints
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