The First Visitors

The First Visitors
Start date:	October 15, 1962
End date:	November 24, 1962
# of strips:	36 (6 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"The Gamblers"
Followed by:	"The Aftermath"

"The First Visitors" is the 118th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

A quiet evening Mandrake and Narda talking about the possibility of life on other planets, then suddenly a broadcast: Planet Earth - We are visitors -- from deep space -- do not be alarmed -- We intend to land -- We are friendly.

But when the radar systems and telescopes tried to locate the spaceship, they found nothing... Then Mandrake got a cinder in his eye.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar
• Narda

One-time characters

Locations

• New York

Behind the scenes

• The title for the story taken from the strip of October 13, 1962 (Next Week: "The First Visitors").

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Brazil

• "A Nave Sideral", Mandrake #81 (1963)
• "Os Primeiros Visitantes do Espaço", Mandrake #311 (1981)
• "Os Primeiros Visitantes do Espaço", Mandrake Coleção #36 (1992)

France

• "Les explorateurs du néant", Mandrake #64 (1965)

Italy

• "Gli esploratori del nulla", Mandrake #35 (1963)
• "Gli esploratori del nulla", I Classici dell'Avventura #73 (1964)
• "Gli esploratori del nulla", Mandrake - New Comics Now #164 (1986)

Portugal

• "O Ultimato", Mundo de Aventuras #808 (1965)

Spain

• "La nave misteriosa", Coleccion Héroes Modernos #44c (1964)
• "La nave misteriosa", Coleccion Héroes Modernos Album de Rip Kirby (1964)
• "La nave misteriosa", Biblioteca Eterna - Coleccion Héroes Modernos #9C (1970)
• "Los Primeros Visitantes", Mandrake #27 (1998)

Turkey

• "Uzaydan Gelenler", Mandrake #186 & #187 (1978)
• "Uzaydan Gelenler", Mandrake Albüm #60 (1978)

United Kingdom

• "Mandrake the Magician in.... Visitors from Space", Mandrake the Magician #24 (1963)

USA

• "The First Visitors", The Classic Mandrake Series (second series)/ Episode: "The Butterfly Man" (Pacific Comics Club) (2020)

Remake

• "Specter from Space" by Andre LeBlanc.