Las Grandes Aventuras: Merlin el Mago Moderno 16
| El Navio Fantasma con Merlín el Rey de la Magia | |
 Cover artist: unknown | |
| Country/language: |  Spain / Spanish
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| Format: | 21 x 32 cm |
| Pages: | 16 pgs, b/w |
| Publishing date: | 1945 |
| Editor: | unknown |
| Publishing company: | Hispano Americana |
| Preceded by: | Merlin #15 |
| Followed by: | Merlin #17 |
El Navio Fantasma con Merlín el Rey de la Magia is presumably the sixteenth Mandrake issue in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series with price tag 1.5 ptas.
Contents
Mandrake stories
- "El Navio Fantasma" ("The Flame Pearls Pt.3: The Three Cows" part 2, "The Swordfish", "Pt.4: The Amazons", "Pt.5: The Ghost Ship") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
Back cover
Starting in 1944 the back covers of issues from the "Las Grandes Aventuras" and the "Los Albumes Preferidos por la Juventud" printed various collector cards. This issue has a picture of Mary Bernet, a Spanish swimmer.
back cover
1983 reprint
In 1983 Joaquín Esteve edited in collaboration with "Club Amigos de la Historieta" a facsimile reprint of this issue. The back cover is with only one printing plate for prussian blue.
Note
The "Las Grandes Aventuras" (or other series by Hispano Americana) have no numbering or date printed on the cover or inside, thus making it difficult to make an index in chronological order. Fortunately, most of the back covers from the series "Las Grandes Aventuras" and "Los Albumes Preferidos por la Juventud" series (Colleción "Audaz" & Aventuras y Misterio) have a back-list and an ad for the next issue. Sometime also the current or next issue for the other series.
Comparing the back covers of the first print issues prior this Mandrake issue it is possible to make a list which shows that this Mandrake issue was #124 in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series. "Leyendas Infantiles" issue 164 has a small ad for this issue. According to Tebeosfera this "Leyendas Infantiles" issue was released on July 24, 1945 - and "El Navio Fantasma" is probably released about this date.