Collana Albi grandi avventure (2)

Mandrake, Il mistero della casa da gioco
Cover artist: Giove Toppi second variant
Country/language:	Italy / Italian
Format:	31,5 × 22,6 cm
Pages:	28 pgs, b/w
Publishing date:	February, 1936
Editor:	unknown
Publishing company:	Casa Editrice Nerbini
Preceded by:	Mandrake #1
Followed by:	Mandrake #3

The first seven issues of this series have no title, but are later known as Collana Albi grandi avventure #2.

Contents

Mandrake stories

• "Il mistero della casa da giuoco" ("The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda)") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis. (note: Narda is named Daran in this story!)

Variants

There are two different variants of the cover for this issue:

• First variant: with the date February 1936 and price tag L 1 printed on the cover.
• Second variant: without the date and price tag printed on the cover.

In addition there exists issues of the first variant with a different back cover.

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  back cover

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  back cover
  variant

Reprint

Reprinted in 1976, in format 34 x 24,5 cm. The back list on the reverse indicating that the source for the 1976 reprint was the original first variant.

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  1976 reprint

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  back cover