Las Grandes Aventuras: Merlin el Mago Moderno 6
| La Ciudad Lunar 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: | 1943 |
| Editor: | unknown |
| Publishing company: | Hispano Americana |
| Preceded by: | Merlin #5 |
| Followed by: | Merlin #7 |
La Ciudad Lunar con Merlín el Rey de la Magia is the sixth Mandrake issue in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series with price tag 1.5 ptas.
Contents
Mandrake stories
- "La Ciudad Lunar" ("The Lunar Trip") by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.
Note
This story was first printed in the Aventurero year album 1940. But this is a shortened version of the original story, and both the translation and the lettering are different from the one found in this issue. The source of this print is probably from the French Collection merveilleuse #13, probably re-inked by a Spanish artist working for Hispano Americana. Pictures with scantily clad ladies have been over-inked with slightly more decent clothes.
sample
sample
Back cover
Starting in 1942 the back covers of issues from the "Las Grandes Aventuras" and the "Los Albumes Preferidos por la Juventud" (Colleción "Audaz" & Aventuras y Misterio) printed various collector cards, which could be glued into different collecting albums. These folded "Álbumes Centella" sheets could be ordered free and measured 17,5x25 cm.
back cover
variant
1983 reprint
- Sticker: Serie 04-17: Manel Costa, professional road racing cyclist. (for C. de F. Barcelona in 1943 ??)
- Sticker: Serie 22-06: Neura, Real Murcia C. de F. (squad of 1941-42 + 1942-43) - misspelled?, probably Manuel Neira Martínez.
- Sticker: Serie 22-12: Logo, Real Murcia Club de Fútbol
- Sticker: Serie 25-12: Logo, Real Santander Club de Fútbol
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 #69 in the "Las Grandes Aventuras" series, most likely published in July/August 1943.