Chamber Into the X Dimension (novel)
| Chamber Into the X Dimension | |
| 1st publication: | Pulp Colección #3 (1973) |
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| # of pages: | pgs |
| Writer: | Dick Fulton |
| Artist: | n/a |
| Producer: | Fratelli Spada |
"Chamber Into the X Dimension" is a Mandrake prose story from 1973, adapted from the Sunday story "Chamber into the X Dimension" from 1936/1937.
Plot summary
The main plot is following the original story with:
Mandrake and Lothar meet professor Theobold who has invented a way to project people into the "X" Dimension. He has already projected his daughter into the "X" Dimension, but now he is unable to bring her back. Mandrake and Lothar volunteer to be themselves projected into the "X" Dimension, in order to seek Fran.
Behind the scenes
- When they first meet professor Theobold they had been in a "six wedding party" like the end of the previous Sunday story, The Circus People.
- Mandrake quotes a sentence from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket".
- 3 chapters are devoted to the second daily story, "The Hawk, where Mandrake meets Narda. Barbara og Tommy Lord from The Cobra are mentioned.
- One chapter is devoted to the meeting of Mandrake and Lothar. In this story Mandrake is in Africa with his fathers old friend Lord Tennings, his daughter Claire and her fiance Jim Travers. Once a year the whichdoctor of the Waltaks performed a human sacrifice. This year the selected young man was Lothar.
- Using mentally power Mandrake helped Narda to find a bomb at Xanadu.
- The names of both Tarzan and Tim Tylor is mentioned.
- The novel contains three footnotes:
- A dialogue between Mandrake and Fran: inspired by a scene from the movie version of "Wizard of Oz" by Frank L. Baum.
- Astral projection: as done by some Llamas in Tibet.
- The name Mandrake: the plant Mandrake.
Dick Fulton
Óscar W. Benítez wrote that Dick Fulton had a Spanish origin, and that he probably was very young he emigrated to the United States with his family. Benítez also indicate that Dick Fulton was one of many various pseudonyms used by the author of this Mandrake novel.
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Spain
- "Mandrake, La dimensión X", Mandrake #366 (1973)
Portugal
- "Mandrake, Dimensão X", Mandrake #1 (1975)