The Visitors
| The Visitors | |
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| Start date: | January 25, 1953 |
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| End date: | June 7, 1953 |
| # of strips: | 20 (20 weeks) |
| Writer: | Lee Falk |
| Artist: | Phil Davis |
| Preceded by: | "The Hide-out" |
| Followed by: | "The Water Champ" |
"The Visitors" is the 56th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.
Plot Summary
At a hospital a pilote have been flown back from Africa, after a bad crash over there. He told a strange story; He was making a routine jungle flight when he lost his way. In a misty valley he saw to giantic heads, sticking out of the mist. Then he blacked out and crashed.
Our friends heading Africa to look for giantic statues and discovered colossal visitors from the space.
The visitors came from a star system far from Earth. Their distant sun that warm up their planet was dying and they was looking for a planet with heavy metals. They planned bring with them the planet Earth and dropp it into their sun, as fuel.
Appearances
Locations
- The Caribbean
- Africa
Behind the scenes
- The story title is from the strip of January 23, 1953 (Next Week = "The Visitors") and January 25, 1953 (Beginning: The Visitors).
Signifiant covers
Argentina
Argentina
Brazil
Italy
Italy
Italy
Portugal
USA
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Argentina
- "??", Cinemisterio #208 (1954)
Brazil
- "Os Gigantes do Espaço", Mandrake #4 (1953)
Finland
- "Vierailijat", Mustanaamio #13 (2000)
France
- "Les hommes gratte-ciel", Mandrake #16 and #17 (1963)
- "Les hommes des nuages", Le Journal de Mickey #972-#976 (1971)
- "no title", Mandrake le Magicien #5 (1984)
Italy
- "Gli uomini grattecielo", Albo Traguardo #52 (1953)
- "Gli uomini grattecielo", Il Vascello #43 (1961)
- "Gli uomini grattecielo", I Classici dell'Avventura #17 (1962)
- "Gli uomini grattacielo", Mandrake - New Comics Now #217 (1988)
Netherlands
- "Reuzen uit de ruimte", Heintje # 13 to Heintje #19 (1967)
Norway
- "Besøkerne", Fantomet #13 (2000)
Portugal
- "Os Visitantes", Condor Popular #1 Vol. 1 (1954)
Spain
- "Los Visitantes", Mandrake el Mago: Sundays pages 1953–1956 (Dolmen Editorial) (2020)
- "Los Visitantes", Héroes del Cómic 8 (2021)
Sweden
- "Besökarna", Fantomen #13 (2000)
Turkey
- "Sisli Vadi", Mandrake #115 & #116 (1976)
- "Sisli Vadi", Mandrake Albüm #39
USA
- "The Visitors", Mandrake Sundays #5 #6 (1989)