Story

Story
First Dutch issue
Country/language:	Belgium / French, Dutch
Publishing company:	Editions du Pont-Levis NV Uitgaven Pont-Levis
Publishing years:	1945-1951
Issues:	301
Format:	22x30 cm, b/w & color

Story was Belgian weekly popular tabloid comic published from 1945 until 1951. It was published in Brussels by the "Editions du Pont-Levis". Like many Belgian magazines, it was also published in a Flemish / Dutch version.

Issue overview

Regular series

From the issue #1 on June 21, 1945 one find "Mandrake the Magician" alongside the usual American comics of the review like – amongst others - "The Katzenjammer Kids", "Popeye", "Big Ben Bolt", "Tim Tyler’s Luck", "Flash Gordon", "The Phantom", "The Lone Ranger", as well as some Belgian or Dutch comics.

In the French edition was named "Mandrake roi de la magie" and in the Dutch version he had several names "Mandrake koning der toovenaars", "Mandrake koning der tovenaars" and "Mandrake de wonderman".

Apart the comics, published in colour for most of them, half of the magazine consisted of articles written about film, new writing and games.

Published Mandrake stories

Original story title	Issues	Comment
"The Annoying" (filler page)	1
"The Flying Pass By" (filler page)	2
"The Clairvoyant" (filler page)	3
"City of Gold"	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	missing strip of May 28
"The Evil Man" (filler page)	30
"Trial of Strenght" (filler page)	31
"The Cure" (filler page)	32
"Lothar go Fishing" (filler page)	33
"The Dishonest Merchant" (filler page)	34
"The Ghost Bear of Glass Mountain"	35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49
"Mandrake and Doubting Thomas" (filler page)	50
"Lothar at the Dentist" (filler page)	51
"The Concert" (filler page)	52
"Land of the Little People"	53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, ( 57-59), 60, 61, 62, 63, ( 60-63), 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73
"The Circus People"	74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97
"Chamber into the X Dimension"	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
"Prince Paulo the Tyrant"	126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149
"The Treasure Hunt"	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
"The Lunar Trip"	179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204
"Mandrake and Lothar at the Carnival"	205, 206, 207, 208, 209
"The Haunted Range"	210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218
"Afternoon with Lothar" (filler page)	219
"The Fisherman" (filler page)	219
"City of Jewels Pt.1: The Polar Bear Pirates"	220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225
"City of Jewels Pt.2: The Ice Demons"	225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230
"City of Jewels Pt.3: Conclusion"	231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237
"Pleasant Valley"	238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249
"Medusa"	250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261
"HRH Cuddles"	262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282
"The Raft People"	283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292
"Fear Island"	293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301	unfinished

Albums

Story Album

The issues were also glued together to form thirteen separate albums from the issues #1 to the issue # 301. In 1948 one also find 2 issues of a second album serie (Série no 1 / 1ste Reeks) where issues # 161 to the issue # 180 were glued together.

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  Story Album #1

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  Story Album #2

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  Story Album #3

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  Story Album #4

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  Story Album #5

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  Story Album #6

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  Story Album #7

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  Story Album #8

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  Story Album #9

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  Story Album #10

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  Story Album #11

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  Story Album #12

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  Story Album #13

Story Album (Second series)

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  Story Album #1

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  Story Album #2

Album Hello

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  Album Hello

Mandrake covers (full covers, not Sunday Pages covers)

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  Story #208

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  Story #216

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  Story #227

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  Story #249