The Circus Adventure

The Circus Adventure
Start date:	May 28th, 1944
End date:	August 27th, 1944
# of strips:	14 (14 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"The Garden of Wuzzu"
Followed by:	"The Santa Claus Pirates"

"The Circus Adventure" is the 27th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

At Sam Jones's circus there have been one unexplainable accident after another.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar

One-time characters

• Sam Jones, circus owner.
• Sylva, Sam's daughter.
• Mr Jasper, a banker.
• A rhinolion, at the circus (Mandrake's magic).
• A giraffagator, at the circus (Mandrake's magic).
• A two-headed osterich, at the circus (Mandrake's magic).
• A monkey with elephant head, at the circus (Mandrake's magic).
• A fat lady, at the circus (Mandrake's magic).
• A thin man, at the circus (Mandrake's magic).
• A two-headed man, at the circus (Mandrake's magic).
• A midget, at the circus (Mandrake's magic).
• Carlo, a ringmaster at the circus.
• Spike, friend of Carlo.
• Gombo, a gorilla at the circus.
• Combo's keeper.
• Tota, Sylva's pet lion.
• Joe, an elephant at the circus.

Locations

• US (?)
  • The city
    • Sam's Colossal Circus.

Behind the scenes

• At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "The Circus Adventure", which is lifted from the plot.

Signifiant covers

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  Brazil

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  Spain

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Brazil

• "Conspiração no circo", Mandrake #54 (1961)

France

• "Mandrake et le cirque de Sam Jones", Spécial Mandrake #7 (1964)
• "Le cirque de Sam Jones", L'âge d'or Mandrake #4 (1980)
• "Le cirque de Sam Jones", Mandrake le Magicien (Editions de la Porte Dorée) 2 (2015)

Italy

• "Il circo di Sam Jones", Super Albo #26 (1963)
• "Il circo di Sam Jones", L'epoca d'oro di Mandrake #4 (1980)
• "Il circo di Sam Jones", Mandrake - New Comics Now #42 (1981)

Spain

• "El circo extraordinario", Merlin el Mago Moderno #22 (194?)

United Kingdom

• no title, Hullabaloo #4 (1970s ?)

USA

• "(no title)", King Comics #115, King Comics #116, King Comics #117 and King Comics #118 (1945/1946)
• "The Colossal Circus", The Official Mandrake Sundays #1 (1989)

Yugoslavia

• "Semov cirkus", Biblioteka Nostalgija #13 (1991)