Albi delle grandi avventure - Mandrake
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| Country/language: |  Italy / Italian
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| Publishing company: | Capriotti |
| Publishing years: | 1944-1949 |
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Issue overview
By S.E.P.I.
From 1944 to 1949, following the success of the weekly magazine "L'Avventura", S.E.P.I. published a series of separate comics-books devoted to various comic book figures: "Audax", "Cino e Franco", "Folgore", "Mandrake il Mago", "Radio Pattuglia", "Raff", "L'Uomo Mascherato and "Zorro". The cover artist, Niso Ramponi, signed with the initials "K" or "Kremes".
Gli albi delle grandi avventure
The "Gli albi delle grandi avventure" started as a supplement series the weekly magazine "L'Avventura". The first issue in this series was a "Marco Spada (Brick Bradford) issue by William Ritt and Clarence Gray followed by a "Mandrake" issue. Both issues were released in 1944 in a large portrait format. In 1945 the series continued the classic landscape format, known as the "Italian format". The series was splitt into severals sub-series: "Mandrake il Mago" (4 issues), "L'Uomo Mascherato (The Phantom)" (6 issues), "Cino e Franko (Tim Tyler’s Luck)" by Lyman Young (2 issues), "Audax (King of the Royal Mounted)" by Jim Gary (2 issues)
Serie Mandrake il Mago
The first issue was a Sunday story and the following issues printed daily stories previous printed in the weekly magazine. Non of the issues were numbered.
By Capriotti
Gli albi delle grandi avventure
Serie Mandrake il Mago
Albo avventuroso
Serie Mandrake il Mago
The series published Sunday pages in color and large square format. Although the series had its own structure and numbering it had a dual numering for the "Gli albi delle grandi avventure" series.
Both issues from March 1948. A mystery because #16 was released December 1947!
Albo avventure
Collana albi Americani - Serie Mandrake
Albo avventuroso
Serie Mandrake il Mago
Album
The title and pictures on the cover for the second album is made for the Sunday story "Kingdom of Marvel", indicate an unreleased issue 26 ?
Le Meravigliose avventure di Mandrake il mago
Le Meravigliose avventure di Mandrake il mago
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Albo avventure - Nuove avventure di Mandrake il mago
