Die Huisgenoot

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Die Huisgenoot ("The House Companion" in Afrikaans language) is a family magazine published in Cape Town, South Africa, by "Media24", the print media arm of the South African media company "Naspers" - now an multinational internet and media group. The magazine was founded as "De Huisgenoot" in 1916. It later took the title "Die Huisgenoot", a more Afrikaans-sounding presentation (the current name is now reduced to "Huisgenoot" only). It has the highest circulation figures of any South African magazine.

  • Sunday pages of Mandrake the Magician" appeared in "Die Huisgenoot", under the name of "Walter die Wonderman", with a run expanding at least from 1957 to 1974. Each issue has one sunday page by week, in sepia or black and white. The stories were published in the original chronological order. Some stories were edited (less panels) in the last years.

Some Mandrake stories published in "Die Huisgenoot"

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# Original story title Start date in DH (*) End date in DH (*) Comment
66 "Universal Love"
........ (problably stories #67, 68 and 69)
70 "Witchmen's Peak" 5 Nov 1956 8 Apr 1957
........ (stories between #71 and 98 ?)
99 "The Astro Pirates" 16 Dec 1966 28 Apr 1967
100 "The Blackout Caper" 2 May 1967 22 Aug 1967
........ (stories between #101 and 105 ?)
106 "The Galactic Rumble" 7 Jul 1969 9 Jan 1970
........ (stories between #107 and 109 ?)
110 "The Mystery" 1 Jan 1971 6 May 1971
........ (stories between #111 and 121 ?)
122 "Fun with Mandrake]" 14 Dec 1973 22 Feb 1974
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(*) = "Die Huisgenoot".

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