The College of Magic

The College of Magic
Start date:	May 30th, 1971
End date:	August 29th, 1971
# of strips:	14 (14 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Fred Fredericks
Preceded by:	"The Shark"
Followed by:	"The Space Pack"

"The College of Magic" is the 113th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.

Plot Summary

Deep in a remote mountain range, a great boulder moves when a secret word is spoken. Revaling a long tunnel leading to an underground city. A wonderland of gardens and fountains, a place of philosophers and magicians, the "College of Magic". Now enemy soldiers have found the secret entrance to the college and Theron calling Mandrake for help.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar
• Narda
• Hojo
• Karma
• Jed
• Theron

One-time characters

• Manuel, in Tibet

Locations

• New York City
  • Xanadu
• Tibet
  • College of Magic

Objects

• The Crystal Cube

Behind the scenes

• The story title is from the strip of May 23,1971 (Next Week: The College of Magic). Note: At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "The Hidden College of Magic".
• The College of Magic is 4000 years old.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Brazil

• "Os Invasores", Mandrake #189 (1972)

France

• "Une aventure extraordinaire", Mandrake #395 (1973)

Italy

• "Avventura strabiliante", Mandrake #41 (1973)

Portugal

• "O Cubo Mágico", A Capital - Quadradinhos (1972)
• "O Mistério do Chefe Desconhecido", Condor #82 (1973) note: starts with the last strip of previous story.

Slovenia

• "Univerza carovništva", Super Zabavnik #3 (ca 2000)

Turkey

• "Akademi Tehlikede", Mandrake #130 & #131 (1976)
• "Akademi Tehlikede", Mandrake Albüm #44
• "Akademi Tehlikede", Mandrake #58 & #59
• "Akademi Tehlikede", Mandrake Süper Albüm #17 & #18
• "Akademi Tehlikede", Mandrake Süper Albüm #64

Yugoslavia

• "Koledž mađije", Super EKS Almanah #64 (1985)