Busta Spada
Busta Spada was an album series of Mandrake comic books published by the Italian publisher Fratelli Spada.
History
Unsold copies of the regular Mandrake, and I Classici dell'Avventura series - as well as similar copies of The Phantom series and others were later put in a plastic envelope with new covers. They were sold as Busta Spada. However various samples of the same Busta Spada issues have different issues inside.
Issue overview
Samples of Busta Spada
Mandrake e altre avventure
Earch issue is like a "surprise bag", and one might find Mandrake issues inside. At least 6 different issues were released.
Rassegna armin da fuoco leggere 1800-1900
This series had trading cards of famous guns as cover, and contained two comic books from before 1971. Earch issue is like a "surprise bag", and one might find Mandrake issues inside. At least 11 different issues were released.
Le piu avvincenti avventure
Earch issue is like a "surprise bag", and one might find Mandrake issues inside. At least 11 different issues were released.
Gli assi del fumetto mondiale
Earch issue is like a "surprise bag" with 2 comics from 1972-1975 inside: "Mandrake", "The Phantom", "Turok" or "Marshal". At least 8 different issues were released.
Busta Spada
Classici dell avventura
Earch issue is like a "surprise bag", and one might find Mandrake issues inside. At least 8 different issues were released.
Busta Vacanze
Earch issue is like a "surprise bag", and one might find Mandrake issues inside. At least 1 issue were released.