The Mystery of Hojo

The Mystery of Hojo
Start date:	January 10th, 1971
End date:	February 21th, 1971
# of strips:	7 (7 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Fred Fredericks
Preceded by:	"The Mystery"
Followed by:	"The Shark"

"The Mystery of Hojo" is the 111th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.

Plot Summary

Each day after prepairing breakfast Hojo take off at precisely 9:00 A.M. and returns precisely at 17:30 to prepare dinner. No one knows what he does in between and Narda and Karma are intrigued by the secret life of Hojo.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Narda
• Lothar
• Karma
• Hojo

One-time characters

Locations

• New York City
  • Xanadu

Behind the scenes

• The story title is from the strip of January 10th, 1971 (Beginning: The Mystery of Hojo).
  Note: At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "Hojo's Secret".
• Hojo, the 10th degree black-belt judo and karate expert. Fluent in 12 languages, can read 8 more. Student of philosophy and history.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Argentina

• "El Misterio de Hojo", Sandokan #3 (1982)

Brazil

• "O Segredo de Hojo", Mandrake #207 (1973)

India

• "The Secret Life of Hojo" Indrajal Comics #158 (1972)

Italy

• "Il segreto di Hojo", Mandrake #20 (1971)

Portugal

• "Segredo de Jojo", A Capital - Quadradinhos (1971)
• (no title), Mundo de Aventuras #1233 (1973)

Spain

• "El misterio de Hojo", Mandrake el Mago: Sundays pages 1968–1972 (Dolmen Editorial) (2019)

Turkey

• "Hojo'nun Sırrı", Mandrake #128 (1976)
• "Hojo'nun Sırrı", Mandrake Albüm #43
• "Hojo'nun Sırrı", Mandrake #55 & #56
• "Hojo'nun Sırrı", Mandrake Süper Albüm #16 & #17
• "Hojo'nun Sırrı", Mandrake Süper Albüm #64

Yugoslavia

• "Hajova tajna", Gigant #19 (198?)
• "Hajova tajna", Mandrak magazin #11 (1990)