The City Jungle

The City Jungle
Start date:	April 2, 1962
End date:	June 9, 1962
# of strips:	60 (10 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Phil Davis
Preceded by:	"The Peddler"
Followed by:	"Narda's TV Show"

"The City Jungle" is the 115th Mandrake daily story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Phil Davis.

Plot Summary

A large park in a big city should be a place to enjoy and relax. Instead people are beeing terrorized by muggers, even in the daytime. Mandrake suggest to the Police Chief a secret weapon to clean up the city jungle. His friend Lothar, the master of the jungle.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar
• Narda
• The Police Chief

One-time characters

• Pete, a park mugger.
• Mike, a park mugger.
• Johnny, a man in the park.
• Mike, most popular cop on the force.

Locations

• New York

Organizations

• Red Arrow Mob, toughest croed in town.

Behind the scenes

• The title for the story taken from the strip of April 3, 1962 (Beginning: The City Jungle).

Signifiant covers

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  Australia

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  Brazil

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  Brazil

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  France

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  Greece

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  Italy

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  USA

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Australia

• "no title", Mandrake the Magician #30 (1964 (?))

Brazil

• "Os Assaltantes do Parque", Mandrake #75 (1962)
• "Um Guarda na Selva", Almanaque do Mandrake #9 ? (1981)

France

• "Panique dans la ville", Mandrake #126 (1967)

Greece

• "O Κεραυπoσ τηε Zoυγκλασ", ΒΕΛΟΣ #75 (1969)

Italy

• "Panico nella metropoli", Mandrake #20 (1962)
• "Panico nella metropoli", I Classici dell'Avventura #57 (1964)
• "Panico nella metropoli", Mandrake - New Comics Now #105 (1984)

Spain

• "Terror en el parque", Coleccion Héroes Modernos #33c (1964)
• "Terror en el parque", Coleccion Héroes Modernos Album de Rip Kirby (1964)
• "Terror en el parque", Biblioteca Eterna - Coleccion Héroes Modernos #7C (1970)

Turkey

• "Parktaki Dehşet", Mandrake #175 & #176 (1977)
• "Parktaki Dehşet", Mandrake Albüm #56 & #57 (1977)
• "Parktaki Dehşet", Mandrake Albüm #56 & #57 (1977)
• "Parktaki Dehşet", Mandrake Albüm #152 & #153

United Kingdom

• "The City Jungle", Mandrake the Magician #20 (1962)

USA

• "The City Jungle", The Classic Mandrake Series (second series)/ Episode: "The City Jungle" (Pacific Comics Club) (2020)

Yugoslavia

• "Црна стријела" (romanized as "Crna strijela"), Politikin Zabavnik #1420 (1979)

Remake

• "Menace of the City Jungle" by Don Heck and André LeBlanc.