The College of Magic

The College of Magic
Start date:	May 30th, 1971
End date:	August 29th, 1971
# of strips:	14 (14 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Fred Fredericks
Preceded by:	"The Shark"
Followed by:	"The Space Pack"

"The College of Magic" is the 113th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.

This story exist in three variations. Fredericks drew the strips with three rows in landscape format which scaled down to fit half a newspaper page. By cutting the top row, the strip fills a third of a newspaper page. By rearranging the panels to portrait format, the strip fit a tabloid page.

Plot Summary

Deep in a remote mountain range, a great boulder moves when a secret word is spoken. Revaling a long tunnel leading to an underground city. A wonderland of gardens and fountains, a place of philosophers and magicians, the "College of Magic". Now enemy soldiers have found the secret entrance to the college and Theron calling Mandrake for help.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar
• Narda
• Hojo
• Karma
• Jed
• Theron

One-time characters

• Manuel, in Tibet

Locations

• New York City
  • Xanadu
• Tibet
  • College of Magic

Objects

• The Crystal Cube

Behind the scenes

• The story title is from the strip of May 23,1971 (Next Week: The College of Magic). Note: At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "The Hidden College of Magic".
• The College of Magic is 4000 years old.

Signifiant covers

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  Brazil
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  Italy

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Brazil

• "Os Invasores", Mandrake #189 (1972)

France

• "Une aventure extraordinaire", Mandrake #395 (1973)

Italy

• "Avventura strabiliante", Mandrake #41 (1973)

Portugal

• "O Cubo Mágico", A Capital - Quadradinhos (1972)
• "O Mistério do Chefe Desconhecido", Condor #82 (1973) note: starts with the last strip of previous story.

Spain

• "El colegio oculto de magia", Mandrake el Mago: Sundays pages 1968–1972 (Dolmen Editorial) (2019)

Slovenia

• "Univerza carovništva", Super Zabavnik #3 (ca 2000)

Turkey

• "Akademi Tehlikede", Mandrake #130 & #131 (1976)
• "Akademi Tehlikede", Mandrake Albüm #44
• "Akademi Tehlikede", Mandrake #58 & #59
• "Akademi Tehlikede", Mandrake Süper Albüm #17 & #18
• "Akademi Tehlikede", Mandrake Süper Albüm #64

Yugoslavia

• "Koledž mađije", Super EKS Almanah #64 (1985)