Il Vascello
| Il Vascello | |
 First issue | |
| Country/language: |  Italy / Italian
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|---|---|
| Publishing company: | La Freccia |
| Publishing years: | 1958 + 1959-1961 |
| Issues: | 20 + 65 |
| Format: | b/w, sepia & color |
Issue overview
Regular series
The first issue of this series mainly devoted to L'uomo mascherato is dated February 7, 1958 and the last (#22) December 15, 1958. The format was 14,5 × 20 cm for generally 32 pages.
Issues with Mandrake
After the last issue a bis (extra) Mandrake issue was publicated.
Second series
The first issue of this specific series is dated April 15, 1959. It ended with the issue #65 dated December 20, 1961. After the first issue devoted to a pirate adventure Italian comics, the second and the fifth issues were mainly devoted to "Mandrake the Magician" who, from issue #7, became the main figure for the series. Enzo Carretti made the covers for issues; 1-4, 13-36 and 41-65, Tullo Palasciano the covers for issue 5 and Onofrio Bramante the covers for issues 7-11.
Issues with Mandrake
| 1959 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 11b | 12 | 13 | 13b | 14 | 15 | 15b | 16 | 17 | |||||||
| 1960 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 21b | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | ||
| 1961 | 42 | 43 | 43b | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 49b | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | |
Extra and supplement issues
In this series, there were also some bis (extra) issues, two with Mandrake and one Mandrake Supplemento issue.
- 11-bis, 48 pgs Morte nell'ombra.
- 13-bis, 48 pgs I pindarris vindhya.
- 15-bis, 48 pgs I dorados di Pancho Villa.
- 21-bis, Numero dopplo Mandrake Il gigante fantasma
- 49-bis, Numero dopplo Mandrake Il gigante fantasma
- Supplemento al 43 Mandrake Contro il Cobra