City of Gold
| City of Gold | |
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| Start date: | February 5th, 1939 |
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| End date: | August 6th, 1939 |
| # of strips: | 162 (27 weeks) |
| Writer: | Lee Falk |
| Artist: | Phil Davis |
| Preceded by: | "The Clairvoyant" |
| Followed by: | "The Evil Man" |
"City of Gold" is the 11th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.
Plot Summary
Mandrake and Lothar joins Dr. Cole and his daughter on their search for the legendary City of Gold.
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- Dr. Cole, an explorer
- Babs, daughter of Cole
- A pilot
- Chief, a gangster
- Thug #1
- Thug #2
- Thug #3
- Bud, thug #4
- The Old Chief, in an Amazon village
- His wife and granddson
- Tragor, oldes man of the cliff-dwellers
Locations
- New York City (?)
- Baden Ferry
- Dr. Cole's private air field
- Baden Ferry
- The Amazon River
- A hostile village
- A cliff city
- The City of Gold
Vehicles
- Sikorsky S-38 (The Explorer's Air Yacht)
Behind the scenes
Title
- At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "City of Gold", which is lifted from the plot.
Real Life References
- Baden is a neighborhood of St. Louis and in Baden: Halls Ferry Road.
Sikorsky S-38
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Australia
- "Mandrake Discovers the City of Gold", The Supercomic Series #16 (1949)
Belgium
Brazil
- "Mandrake no Amazonas", Gibi #35, 38, 41, 44, 47, 50, 53, 56, 59, 62, 65, 68, 71, 74, 77, 80, 83 (1939)
France
- "Mandrake dans la ville d'or", Robinson (1940)
- "La ville d'or", Spécial Mandrake #84 (1970)
- "Mandrake dans la ville d'or", L'âge d'or Mandrake #2 (1980)
Italy
- "Mandrake nella città d'oro", L'Avventura (1948-1949)
- "La città d'oro", Super Albo # 20 (1962)
- "Mandrake nella citta' d'oro", L'epoca d'oro di Mandrake #2 (1980)
Poland
- "??", Świat Przygód #??-?? (1937-1939)
Portugal
- "Cidade de Ouro", Mundo de Aventuras Especial #19 (1977)
Spain
- "Mandrake en la Ciudad de Oro", Mandrake #5 (1999)
Turkey
- "Altın Şehirde", Afacan #1 - 21 (1942)
USA
- King Comics (1940)
- "no title", Feature Book #46 (1946)
Yugoslavia
- "Legenda o zlatnom gradu", Biblioteka Nostalgija #3 (1985)