The Mysterious Bureau
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The Mysterious Bureau | |
Start date: | September 25th, 1967 |
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End date: | January 13th, 1968 |
# of strips: | 96 (16 weeks) |
Writer: | Lee Falk |
Artist: | Fred Fredericks |
Preceded by: | "The Secret Weapon Caper" |
Followed by: | "Dr Dell and 8" |
"The Mysterious Bureau" is the 135th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.
Plot Summary
Someone breaks into grammar schools to steal intelligence tests of six-years-olds. Then mysterious men from the Executive Placement Bureau visiting the small genius and their families. Then some families disappears mysteriously.
Appearances
Recurring characters
- Mandrake
- Lothar
- Narda
- Hojo, at Xanadu only.
- The Police Chief
One-time characters
- Ronald Smith, a six years old genious.
- Sally Smith, mother of Ronald.
- President, board of education.
- Susie Jones, a six years old genious.
- Rommy Black, a six years old genious.
- Remmy Black, a six years old genious and twin brother of Rommy.
- Tommy Toms, a six years old genious. Eg. a dog.
- FF77, a timetraveler
Locations
- New York
- Xanadu
- South Pamet, near Xanadu
- Year 50 505
Organizations
- Executive Placement Bureau
Behind the scenes
- The title for the story taken from the strip of September 25th, 1967 (Beginning: The Mysterious Bureau).
- South Pamet, refering to Lee Falk's summer house near Truro at Cape Cod.
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Brazil
- "Os Mini Gênios", Almanaque do Mandrake (1970)
- "Os Gênios", Mandrake Especial #5 (1987)
Finland
- "Tulevaisuuden agentit", Mustanaamio #15 (1983)
France
- "Superhommes venus de l'espace", Mandrake #225, #226, #227 and #228 (1969)
- "Les surdoués", Le Journal de Mickey #1566 to #1577 (1982)
- "Les surdoués", Donald Magazine #82-11 to #82-22 (1982)
- "Les surdoués", Mandrake (Les récits du Journal de Mickey) Volume 4 (2015)
- "Les surdoués", Mandrake, intégrale du journal Mickey (Volume 4) (2017)
India
- "Year 50,000 A.D." Indrajal Comics #161 (1972)
- "Visitors from the Future", Indrajal Comics Vol. 22 No. 45 (1985)
- "??" Diamond Comics Digest - Mandrake #41 and #42 (1996)
- "??" Diamond Comics Digest - Mandrake #80 (1999)
Italy
- "Dodici piccolo geni", Mandrake #90 and #91 (1968)
- "L'ufficio misterioso", Okay #1, #2, #3 and #4 (1968) Note: The story ended with the strip of October 26, 1967.
- "12 piccoli gèni", Mandrake Selezione #1 (1976)
- "I viaggiatori dello spazio", Superfumetti in Film #10 (1978)
- "Dodici piccoli geni", Mandrake - New Comics Now #398 (1997)
Norway
- "Agenter fra fremtiden", Fantomet #11 (1987)
Portugal
- "A Agencia Misteriosa", Mundo de Aventuras #1028 (1969)
Sweden
- "Agenter från framtiden", Fantomen #6 (1983)
Turkey
- "Geleceğin Kralları", Mandrake #3 and #4 (1974)
- "Geleceğin Kralları", Mandrake Albüm #1 and #2 (1974)
- "Geleceğin Kralları", Mandrake Albüm #210
- "Geleceğin Kralları", Mandrake Albüm #228
- "Geleceğin Kralları", Mandrake Süper Albüm #25 and #26
Yugoslavia
- "Времепловци"/"Vremeplovci", Politikin Zabavnik #1333 – #1334 (1977)
- "Cpecijalno odeljenje", Super EKS Almanah #45 (1983)