Ateş

Ateş Çocuklar İçin
First issue
Country/language:	Turkey / Turkish
Publishing company:	Tahsin Demiray Hamid Şendur
Publishing years:	1937-1938 1952-1953
Issues:
Format:	? x ? cm , b/w

Ateş (Fire) is an Turkish weekly children magazine that published Mandrake and is Mandrake's second appearance in Turkey.

Issue overview

Regular series, 1936-1938

Issues with Mandrake

"Mandrake - Şimşek Adam" (The Lighting Man) began to be serialized in two pages in "Ateş - Çocuklar İçin" #14 (February 25, 1937). The Mandrake adventure serialized in this first series of Ateş was his first-ever daily strip from 1934 where he meets his arch-nemesis the Cobra. The story had already been serialized in Turkey in Büyük Gazete in 1935. Ateş presented the story in an edited form, omitting several panels, even entire strips. In issue 36 Mandrake also appeared on the cover, the first-ever appearance of the character on the cover of a Turkish publication. The cover art is by Ercümend Kalmuk (1909-1971), a staff illustrator for Türkiye Yayınları.

Title	US Title	Issues
"Mandrake - Şimşek Adam"	The Cobra	1937: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52

Second series, 1952-1953

Issues with Mandrake

Title	US Title	Issues
"Gizli Oyun Yeri"	The Hawk (Mandrake Meets Narda)	1952: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 1953: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
"Kızıl Geçitteki Dev"	The Monster of Tanov Pass	1953: 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50

For some reason, Ateş had skipped the 4th daily strip continuity where Mandrake meets the Clay Camel, who would be one of the recurrant villains, and is also temporarily re-united with Narda.

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  issue 36

Sources

• "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" by Kaya Özkaracalar