Las Grandes Aventuras: Merlin el Mago Moderno 5
| Merlín 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: | 1943 |
| Editor: | unknown |
| Publishing company: | Hispano Americana |
| Preceded by: | Merlin #4 |
| Followed by: | Merlin #6 |
Merlín Rey de la Magia is the fifth Mandrake issue in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series with price tag 1.5 ptas.
Contents
Mandrake stories
- "Merlín Rey de la Magia" ("Land of the Fakirs") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
Note
This story was first printed in the magazine Aventurero, issues 31 to 49. It appears that an artist has used the images from the Aventurero pages to create a black and white re-inked version adapted to the landscape format. Pictures with scantily clad ladies have been over-inked with slightly more decent clothes.
sample
sample
in Aventurero
Back cover
Starting in 1943 the back covers of issues from the "Las Grandes Aventuras" and the "Los Albumes Preferidos por la Juventud" printed a series about how to fly a plane, "Las Lecciones del Jefe Piloto".
back cover
1983 reprint
In 1983 Joaquín Esteve edited in collaboration with "Club Amigos de la Historieta" a facsimile reprint of this issue. 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 #62 in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series, most likely published in May 1943.