Second Chance

Second Chance
Start date:	July 28th, 1968
End date:	November 3rd, 1968
# of strips:	15 (15 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Fred Fredericks
Preceded by:	"Invasion of the Babu"
Followed by:	"The All or Nothing Hunt"

"Second Chance" is the 104th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.

Plot Summary

When the third Inter-Intel agent, Murch, disappeared on the heavily guarded Chance Cay Mandrake and Lothar went to the Caribbean. They discovered that Baron Chance run the bank of the rackets, a underworld bank where the rackets hid their loot. The "hot" money was sent there, divided, exported, invested...

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar
• Jed
• Baron Chance

One-time characters

• Murch, an Inter-Intel agent.
• Joe, owner of Joe's Bar and Grill.
• Sergeant Parker, of the local police.
• Fred, one of Baron Chance's men.
• Ed, one of Baron Chance's men.

Locations

• New York City
  • Xanadu
• Joe's Bar and Grill, in the Caribbean
• Chance Cay, Baron Chance's private island in the Caribbean.

Organizations

• Inter-Intel

Behind the scenes

• The story title is from the strip of July 28th, 1968 (Beginning: Second Chance!).

Related stories

Follows

• The Game of Chance

Signifiant covers

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  Brazil

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  Portugal

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Brazil

• "A Ilha do Barão Chance", Mandrake #153 (1969)
• "A Volta do Barão Chance", Mandrake #316 (1982)

India

• "பழி வாங்கும் பிரபு!", Mutu Comics #466 (2022)

Italy

• "L'isola azzardo", Mandrake #137 (1969)

Portugal

• "A Ilha Misteriosa", Condor Popular #7, volum 74 (1969)

Spain

• "La isla de azar", Mandrake el Mago: Sundays pages 1965–1968 (Dolmen Editorial) (2018)

Sweden

• "Baron Chance igjen", Blixt Gordon #5/1969

Turkey

• "Gizli Takip", Mandrake #83 & #84 (1976)
• "Gizli Takip", Mandrake Albüm #28
• "Gizli Takip, Mandrake Albüm #115
• "Takip", Mandrake #36
• "Takip", Mandrake Süper Albüm #10
• "Takip", Mandrake Süper Albüm #49
• "Takip", Mandrake Süper Albüm #28

United Kingdom

• "Second Chance", Mandrake the Magician - The Sundays Volume 1: The Meeting of Mandrake and Lothar (2018)

Yugoslavia

• "Svi su oni ubice", Super EKS Almanah #42 (1983)