Mistero Comics

Mistero Comics
First issue
Country/language:	Italy / Italian
Publishing company:	Casa Editrice Nerbini
Publishing years:	1949-1953
Issues:	26 + 7
Format:	13×18,5 cm, b/w

Issue overview

In 1949 Nerbini started a new series under the title "Mistero comics". The series came out in total 26 issues devided into three series:

Regular series

• Issues 1 (September 11, 1949) to 17 (March 26, 1950).
  

The series has a dual numbering, one for the series and the other for the character. The serie printed:

• "The Phantom" (1, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17)
• "Danny Hale by Jesse March (2, 6, 12)
• "Mandrake" by Franco Donatelli and G Fantoni (4, 8, 14)
• "Lone Ranger" (3, 7, 14)
• "Hara Sahie il fachiro" by ? (10)

As backup stories also "Johnny Hazard" by Frank Robbins, "Radio Patrol" and "Steve Canyon" by M Caniff (1-4).

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  Issue 1

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  Issue 3

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  Issue 4
  Mandrake

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  Issue 5

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  Issue 6

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  Issue 7

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  Issue 8
  Mandrake

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  Issue 9

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  Issue 10

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  Issue 11

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  Issue 12

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  Issue 13

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  Issue 14
  Mandrake

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  Issue 15

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  Issue 16

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  Issue 17

Albums

Five albums reprinted the stories from the "Mistero Comics" series:

• "L'Uomo Mascerato" L'ombra che cammina (1, 5, 9)
• "Danny Hale" (2, 6, 12)
• "Lone Ranger" Il Solitario della foresta (3, 7, 16)
• "Mandrake" Luomo del mistero (4, 8, 14)
• "L'uomo Mascherato" (11, 13, 15, 17)

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  L'Uomo Mascerato
  L'ombra che cammina

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  Lone Ranger
  Il Solitario della foresta

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  Mandrake
  L'uomo del mistero

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  L'uomo Mascherato

Supplement series

In February 1950 a monthly supplement series, "I super-comics mensili", was released: "Robin Hood", "Il Dottor Jekyll", "David Copperfield", "Pinocchio", "I tre moschettieri", "L'ultimo dei Mohicani", "I viaggi di Gulliver" and "Alice nel paese delle meraviglie". The "Il Dottor Jekyll" issue was reprinted in the early 80s.

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  Issue 2

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  Issue 3

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  Issue 6

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  Issue 7

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  Issue 8

Second series

• Issues 1 (April 15, 1950) to 8 (August 25, 1950).
  

The serie printed:

• "The Phantom" by Lee Falk & Wilson McCoy + G Fantoni. (2, 4, 6, 8)
• "Lone Ranger" by C Flanders and G Fantoni (1, 3, 5, 7)

As backup stories also "Mandrake" by Liliana Fantoni (1), "Brick Bradford" (1-5, 6-8) and "X 9" (1-7).

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  Issue 1
  with Mandrake

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  Issue 2

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  Issue 3

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  Issue 4

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  Issue 6

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  Issue 7

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  Issue 8

Third series

• Issue 1 (September 6, 1953).
  

The serie printed:

• "The Phantom" by Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy (1).

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  Issue 1

Issue 1 announced the next "Mandrake" issue, but it was never published.