Mandrake the Magician 2 (Miller)
| Mandrake the Magician #2 Illustrated Comic | |
 Cover artist: unknown | |
| Country/language: |  United Kingdom / English
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| Format: | 18.5 × 24.5 cm |
| Pages: | 68 pgs, b/w |
| Publishing date: | 1959 |
| Editor: | unknown |
| Publishing company: | L. Miller & Son |
| Preceded by: | issue 1 |
| Followed by: | issue 3 |
Contents
Mandrake stories
- "The Chess Kings" ("The Chess Kings") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
- "Lothar's Day" ("Lothar's Day") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
- "The Western" ("The Western") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
Note
Publishing date
This issue was released without a publishing date on the cover or inside, but is likely released about February 1959.
The L. Miller triangle
When the son (Arnold Miller) left his fathers company in 1959 Leonard Miller changed the company name from "L. Miller & Son" to "L. Miller & Co". The 291 issues (from the week ending March 14, 1959) of "Marvelman" and "Young Marvelman" both have "L. Miller & Son" and the 294 issues (from the week ending April 4, 1959) have "L. Miller & Co".
Stamps
The Mandrake issue has an ad from Broadway Approvals for start packages for collecting stamps. The same ad is used in other comics like: "Western Kid" #17, "Marvelman Family" #23 (at GCD #30 is said issued in November 1959). Broadway Approvals has the adress: 486 Old Kent Rd. London, S.E.I. The lot W1 have:
- a Large Stamp Album
- Imported collection of stamps, 57 different: Monaco - Grace Kelly Wedding, French Antartica - First stamp from fantastic new country!, China - Great Wall Airmail, IT. Somalia - Flowers, Ethopia - Red X, Estonia - Nazi Dorpat, Red China - Imperf.
- the "Midget Encyclopædia of stamps"
- Australia - 1956 Olympic Seals
lot W1
Stamp Album
1956 OL - red print
The OL stamps came in 4 colors: blue, red, green and purple. Other stamps depicted in the ad:
1941 Estonia
1945 Ethiopia
1948 China
1949 China
1955 Somalia
1959 French Antarctica
1956 Monaco
