The Invaders (1969 story)

The Invaders
Start date:	September 14th, 1969
End date:	January 11th, 1970
# of strips:	18 (18 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Fred Fredericks
Preceded by:	"The Galactic Rumble"
Followed by:	"The 3D Monster"

"The Invaders" is the 107th 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

A sunny day at Xanadu our friends talking about the space and strange alians thay have met, and strange alians that may be out there. In outer space creatures even Mandrake could not imagine heading the Earth.

Appearances

Recurring characters

• Mandrake
• Lothar
• Narda
• Hojo
• Jed, on phone only

One-time characters

Locations

• New York City
  • Xanadu
• In Space
• Mount Pouli, a vulcano

Behind the scenes

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

Signifiant covers

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  Brazil
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  Italy
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  Portugal

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

Brazil

• "A Grande Ameaça", Mandrake #166 (1970)

Italy

• "I transformisti", Mandrake #173 and #174 (1970)

Portugal

• "Os guerreiros do Espaço", Mundo de Aventuras #1226 (1973)

Spain

• "Los invasores", Mandrake el Mago: Sundays pages 1968–1972 (Dolmen Editorial) (2019)

Turkey

• "Güç Sınav", Mandrake #111 & #112 (1976)
• "Güç Sınav", Mandrake Albüm #37 & #38
• "Güç Sınav", Mandrake Albüm #108 & #109
• "Güç Sınav", Mandrake #49 & #50
• "Güç Sınav", Mandrake Süper Albüm #14 & #15
• "Güç Sınav", Mandrake Süper Albüm #61