Chamber Into the X Dimension (novel)

Chamber Into the X Dimension
1st publication:	Pulp Colección #3 (1973)
# of pages:	pgs
Writer:	Dick Fulton
Artist:	n/a
Producer:	Fratelli Spada

"Chamber Into the X Dimension" is a Mandrake prose story from 1973, adapted from the Sunday story "Chamber into the X Dimension" from 1937/1937.

Plot summary

The main plot is following the original story with:
Mandrake and Lothar meet professor Theobold who has invented a way to project people into the "X" Dimension. He has already projected his daughter into the "X" Dimension, but now he is unable to bring her back. Mandrake and Lothar volunteer to be themselves projected into the "X" Dimension, in order to seek Fran.

Behind the scenes

• When they first meet professor Theobold they had been in a "six wedding party" like the end of the previous Sunday story, The Circus People.
• Mandrake quotes a sentence from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket".
• 3 chapters are devoted to the second daily story, "The Hawk, where Mandrake meets Narda. Barbara og Tommy Lord from The Cobra are mentioned.
• Using mentally power Mandrake helped Narda to find a bomb at Xanadu.

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Spain

• "Mandrake, La dimensión X", Mandrake #366 (1973)

Portugal

• "Mandrake, Dimensão X", Mandrake #1 (1975)