Tale of Aleena
Tale of Aleena | |
Start date: | September 10, 1973 |
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End date: | January 19, 1974 |
# of strips: | 114 (19 weeks) |
Writer: | Lee Falk |
Artist: | Fred Fredericks |
Preceded by: | "The Incredible Thief" |
Followed by: | "Super-Elec" |
"Tale of Aleena" is the 155th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.
Plot Summary
Aleena was Mandrake's girlfriend when they were 17 years old students at the College of Magic. During the years she had been married six times. Five of her ex-husbonds and her boyfriend she had enchanted so they remain, as her willing slaves.
With a magical smoke she manage to enchant her first and only love, Mandrake. Then she ordered him to bring her the crystal cube...
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- Jet, Aleena's pet panther.
- Sath, Aleena's boyfriend.
- Gurn, Aleena's first husbond.
- Kimberly, Gurn new girlfriend.
- Pablo, bullfighter and Aleena's second husbond.
- Gorgeous Cyril, wrestling champion and Aleena's third husbond.
- King Rupert, Aleena's sixth husbond.
Behind the scenes
- The story title is taken from the strip of September 25, 1973 (Tomorrow: "Tale of Aleena").
- 9-3355 are the phone number to Mandrake's study.
- Theron is about 300 years old.
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Brazil
- "Mandrake Através do Tempo e do Espaço", Mandrake Especial (1974)
India
- "Spell of the Enchantress", Indrajal Comics Vol. 24 No. 52 (1987)
Spain
- "Alina", Supercomics Garbo #11 and #14 (1976)
Turkey
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake #49 #50 #51 #52 (1975)
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake Albüm #17 #18
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake Albüm #88 #89
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake #65 #66
- "Güzel Büyücü", Mandrake Süper Albüm #20
USA
- "Tale of Aleena", The Menomonee Falls Gazette from #93 to #111 (1973/1974)
Yugoslavia
- "Opasnost - mirisni tamjan!", Super EKS Almanah #18 (1981)
- "Opasnost - mirisni tamjan!", Mandrakov magazin #16 (1990)