U-Hunt

U-Hunt
Start date:	July 18th, 1955
End date:	September 3rd, 1955
# of strips:	42 (7 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"Return of the Clay Camel"
Followed by:	"The Experiment"

"U-Hunt" is the 83th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.
Note: At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "The Mysterious Mesa".

Plot Summary

On her birthday Narda boarding a ship to visit Cockaigne. Without Narda Mandrake feels lonely and borded, so he found that he needed a vacation. When he find that Lothar reading a magazine "The Uranium Hunters", he decides to go uranium hunting.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar
• Narda, two first strips only.

One-time characters

• Gus, a cowboy.
• Bogg, a cowboy.
• Boss, an enemy agent.

Locations

• New York
• A mystery mesa.

Behind the scenes

• The title for this story is taken from the strip of July 16, 1955 (Next Week: "U-Hunt").

Signifiant covers

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  Brazil
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  Italy
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  Italy

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Argentina

• "En la mina de uranio", Anuario de Mandrake el mago (Impacto) (1967)

Brazil

• "Os Caçadores de Urânio", Mandrake #19 (1956)
• "Os Caçadores de Urânio", Mandrake #241 (1976)
• "Caçadores de Urânio", Mandrake #287 (1979)

Finland

• "Uraania", Sarjakuvalehti #2 (1963)

France

• "Les clandestins de l'uranium", Mandrake #249 (1970)

No, this is a Fratelli Spada story.

• "U-Hunt", Mandrake le Magicien (Collection Clair de lune) Volume 2 - 1953 à 1957 (2012)

Italy

• "I ciandestini dell'uranio", Il Vascello #12 (1959)
• "I ciandestini dell'uranio", I Classici dell'Avventura #29 (1963)
• "I ciandestini dell'uranio", Mandrake #131 (1969)
• "I ciandestini dell'uranio", Mandrake - New Comics Now #331 (1994)