Iljustrovano chetivo

Илюстровано четиво Iljustrovano chetivo
First issue
Country/language:	Bulgaria / Bulgarian
Publishing company:
Publishing years:	1941-1943
Issues:	100 +
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Iljustrovano chetivo - in Cyrillic characters:"Илюстровано четиво" = "Illustrated Reading" - was a Bulgarian magazine published every thursday before the Second World War.

Issue overview

Regular series

The series contained national comics creations as well as American classical comics such as "Flash Gordon", "The Lone Ranger", "Mandrake the Magician (Cyrillic "Мандрак, Царят на магията")", "Tarzan", "Mickey Mouse". The publishing was interrupted in 1943 during the war events which stopped the comic book tradition in Bulgaria for a long time.

Published Mandrake stories

Bulgarian title	Original story title	Start date	End date	note
"Царят на магията"	"Land of the Little People"	July 5, 1941 (#17)	November 18, 1941 (#36)	missing the two first strips
"Мандрак в цирка"	"The Circus People"	May 19, 1942 (#62)	September 22, 1942 (#80)

note

• The site Diaskop indicates however that the two Mandrake stories run respectively from issues 17 to 36 and from issues 62 to 83.

Covers with Mandrake

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Samples

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