Las Grandes Aventuras: Merlin el Mago Moderno
| Las Grandes Aventuras: Merlin el Mago Moderno | |
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| Country/language: |  Spain / Spanish
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| Publishing company: | Hispano Americana |
| Publishing years: | 1935-1953 |
| Issues: | 45 + 2 |
| Format: | 21x32 cm, b/w |
Issue overview
In 1941 "Hispano Americana" started a new series under the generic title "Las Grandes Aventuras". More then 287 issues in total were released. The series is usually categorized as several sub-series as: "Agente Secreto X-9 (Secret Agent X-9)", "El Hombre Enmascarado (The Phantom), "Flash Gordon", "Merlin el Mago Moderno (Mandrake the Magician)", "Tarzan" and on.
Merlin el Mago Moderno
This series pertenciente to the generic "Las Grandes Aventuras", but usually categorized as a series for "Merlin el Mago Moderno". The series is unnumbered and has 45 issues.
Note: Almost all issues are censored version. Someone has added extra ink to the femals for covering their shoulders, back and knees so the girls appears more decent dressed. Joaquín Esteve edited in collaboration with "Club Amigos de la Historieta" a facsimile reprint of the collection in 1983.
Album Rojo
Issues from the generic Las Grandes Aventuras series were in 1944 collected/rebounded into a new album series known as Album Rojo, 80 pgs and size 21x32 cm. # issues of "Flas Gordon", 8 issues of "El Hombre Enmascarado" and 4 issues of "Merlín" are known.
- LGA Merlin Rojo-01.jpg
Album Verde
Issues from the generic Las Grandes Aventuras series were in 1943 collected/rebounded into a new album series known as Album Verde. Two issues of "serie Tarzan", "serie Flas Gordon" and "serie Merlín" are known.
- LGA Merlin Verde-02.jpg
Las Grandes Aventuras Extras
Under the generic title Las Grandes Aventuras there were 12 Extra issues, one with Mandrake which went on sale between numbers 4 and 5 of the regular series.
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Almanaque series
Two extraordinary annuals dedicated to Mandrake: Almanaque 1944 and Almanaque 1945.
- Facsimiles editions of these issues have also been published in the eighties or early nineties.
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