Chamber into the X Dimension
| Chamber into the X Dimension | |
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| Start date: | August 30th, 1936 |
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| End date: | March 7th, 1937 |
| # of strips: | 28 (28 weeks) |
| Writer: | Lee Falk |
| Artist: | Phil Davis |
| Preceded by: | "The Circus People" |
| Followed by: | "Prince Paulo the Tyrant" |
"Chamber into the X Dimension" is the 5th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.
Plot Summary
Mandrake and Lothar meet professor Theobold, an invented of a way to project people into the "X" Dimension. He had projected his daughter into the "X" Dimension, but was not able to bring her back. Mandrake and Lothar volunteer to be projected into the "X" Dimension, to search for Fran.
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- Professor Theobold, a scientist
- Fran, daughter of Professor Theobold
- Wheel men, men of living-metal (in the X Dimension)
- Tolac, a man (in the X Dimension)
- Firebird, made of animated coal (in the X Dimension)
- Carnivfern, a man-eating plant (in the X Dimension)
- Plant people, living plants (in the X Dimension)
- Syca, a tre man
- Popo, a tre man
- Crystal people
- Grat, chif og the flesh men
Locations
- Europe ?
- The "X" Dimension
Behind the scenes
- At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "Chamber into the X Dimension", which is lifted from the plot.
- Note: Mandrake using real magic in this story.
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Argentina
- "Mandrake en Los Hombres de X", Grandes Aventuras #5 (1942) text version
France
- "La dimension X", Robinson (1937)
- "Un voyage dans l'avenir", Collection merveilleuse #7 (1939)
- "Guerre dans le monde à X dimensions", Aventures et Mystère #112 (1949)
- "Le monde à X dimensions", Mandrake roi de la magie #2 (1964)
- "Le monde à X dimensions", Mandrake roi de la magie #23 (1967)
- "Le monde à X dimensions", Mandrake le MagicienJ'ai lu bd #58 (1988)
Italy
- "Gli uomini di cristallo", L'Audace (1937)
- "Gli uomini di cristallo", Topolino giornale #565 to #585 (1945-1946)
- "Gli uomini di cristallo", Albi d'Oro #169 (1949)
- "Gli uomini di cristallo", Super Albo #14 (1961)
Spain
- "El Secreto de Profesor Theobold", Aventurero #96 - #123 (1937)
- "Hacia un Mundo Desconocido", Merlin el Mago Moderno #3 (1942)
- "Hacia un Mundo Desconocido", Album Roja #2 (1944)
- "no title", Clásicos del Comic #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 and #7 (1988)
- "La Dimensión 'X'", Mandrake #2 (1999)
Turkey
- "Gelecekte Bir Seyahat", 1001 Roman #37 - 54 (1940)
United Kingdom
- "The Chamber into the X Dimension", Sundays 1935–1937 (2016)
USA
- King Comics (1937)
- "In the Land of X", Feature Book #52 (1948)
Yugoslavia
- "U carstvu čuda i tajanstva" Mika Miš #116 – #155 (1937)
- (romanized as "U carstvu čuda"), Zabavnik #28 and #29 (1938)
- "U tajanstvenom svetu", Stripoteka #332/333 (1975)
- "Kristalni ljudi", Biblioteka Nostalgija #1 (1981)