Politikin Zabavnik

Politikin Zabavnik Политикин Забавник (in Serbian Cyrillic)
first 1952 issue
Country/language:	Yugoslavia / Serbian
Publishing company:	Politika
Publishing years:	1936-1941 1941-
Issues:	220 3 150 +
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Issue overview

Politikin Zabavnik is the name of a long-running comic magazine published in former Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia. The magazine is published in Serbian with cyrillic alphabet (as Политикин Забавник) but editions in Slovenian and Serbian with latin alphabet have also appeared over the years. As of 2013, "Politikin Zabavnik" is still being published with over 3150 issues published in total.

Regular series

The comic magazine Politikin Zabavnik was launched in 1939 by the publisher Politika. Since the start it has included various comics mixed with entertaining articles on popular subjects. In the period from 1939 to 1941, 220 issues were published, none with "Mandrake".

Second series

A new series started in 1952 with a new issue #1.

Issues with Mandrake

"Mandrake" appeared sporadically in Politikin Zabavnik from 1960 to 1989.

1960	459	460	461	462	463	464	465	466	467	468	469	470
1961	471	472	473	474	475	476	477	478	479	480	481	482
1969	915	923
1970	942	957	962	971	973	978	984	987	991
1971	997	1003	1010	1015	1018	1020	1030	1033	1040
1972	1050	1065	1079	1091
1973	1096	1110	1125	1131	1144
1974	1151	1157	1176
1977	1333	1334	1341
1978	1357	1361	1370	1376	1386
1979	1420	1428	1437	1444	1452
1980	1460
1989	1961	1962	1974	1975

==Note: the Mandrake stories of the issues #915 and 923 were published in separate supplements of the regular magazine. In 1969, five other supplements were published (#917 and 925: "The Phantom", #919 and 927 "Rip Kirby", #921 "Tim Tyler's Luck").

Covers with Mandrake

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  Politikin Zabavnik 962

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  Politikin Zabavnik 1018

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  -- no Mandrake story --

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  Politikin Zabavnik 1961

External links

• Politikin Zabavnik (official site)