Les héros du mystère
Les héros du mystère was a monthly French series edited by Les Editions des Remparts between March 1967 and March 1969.
The series was based on the Italian I Classici dell'Avventura issues previously published by Fratelli Spada. However, it's worth to notice that the original Italian series had many more issues featuring Mandrake as well as The Phantom stories.
History
22 regular issues were published (each one with 100 pages from issue #1 to 19 and with 132 pages from issue #20 to 22), plus three unnumbered extra issues (each one with 132 pages) especially released in order to coincide with main French school holidays. A publishing stop of four months occured between issue #19 (September 1968) and issue # 20 (January 1969).
9 (7 regular and 2 Selected) albums, consisting of unsold copies, were later released.
Most of Mandrake the Magician material featured reprints of the original stories drawn by Phil Davis and Fred Fredericks but some Italian stories were also published.
Mandrake stories frequently occupied only 30 or 40 pages and the remaining pages were devoted to other comics, including "Secret Agent X-9", "Brick Bradford", "Black Fury" and "Kid Montana".
Issue overview
Regular series
| 1967 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1968 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | ||
| 1969 | 20 | 21 | 22 | ||||||||
Albums regular series
| Album | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| Sélecion | 1 | 2 | ||||||
Extra issues
| 1967 | Summer 1967 | Christmas 1967 | ||
| 1968 | Easter 1968 | |||
Cover gallery
See also
