Ateş
Ateş is an Turkish magazine that published Mandrake Daily strip with the title 'Mandrake - Şimşek Adam (Mandrake - The Lighting Man) from 1937 to the 1938.
History
Mandrake's second appearance in Turkey was the weekly Ateş (Fire) published by Türkiye Yayinevi, a leading publisher of popular magazines in Turkey in the pre-war era. This was also Mandrake's first appearance in a Turkish publication designed for children,
Mandrake the Magician began to be serialized as 'Mandrake - Şimşek Adam in two pages each issue format in Ateş #14 (dated Feb. 2nd, 1937), joining two other comics series.
The Mandrake adventure serialized in this first series of Ateş was his first-ever daily strip from 1934 where he meets his arch-nemesis the Cobra, which had already been serialized in Turkey in Büyük Gazete in 1935. However, while the former publication had began its Mandrake series with a perfect reprint, Ateş presented it in an abridged form, omitting several panels, even entire strips.
Mandrake also appeared in the cover of #36, the first-ever appearance of the character on the cover of a Turkish publication. The cover art is by Ercümend Kalmuk (1909-1971), a staff illustrator for Türkiye Yayınları.
Mandrake's first adventure ended in #52 which was also the last issue of the first series of Ateş. The magazine enlarged its size and started new enumeration soon afterwards. Mandrake was the only comics in this new series of Ateş and was serialized on the back covers. The Mandrake adventures serialized in the second series of Ateş are:
Mandrake stories
- "Mandrake - Şimşek Adam" ("The Cobra") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
- "Gizli Oyun Yeri" ("The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda)") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
- "'Kızıl Geçitteki Dev" ("The Monster of Tanov Pass") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
- "Kurtadam" ("The Werewolf") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
For some reason, Ateş had skipped the 4th daily strip continuity where Mandrake meets the Clay Camel, who would be one of the recurrant villains, and is also temporarily re-united with Narda.
Following Ateş, Mandrake's next appearance in Turkey would be in Türkiye Yayınevi's full-fledged comics weekly 1001 Roman.