The Mystery

The Mystery

Start date:	August 30, 1970
End date:	January 3, 1971
# of strips:	19 (19 weeks)
Writer:	Lee Falk
Artist:	Fred Fredericks
Preceded by:	"The Solar Wind"
Followed by:	"The Mystery of Hojo"

"The Mystery" is the 110th 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

Two men came to Inter-Intel with a serious crime problem. Jed thought Mandrake was the right man to ask for help with this weird and unusual crime mystery. The two men was involved in a secret underwater experiment and research. 1200 foot deep they had a underwather sea lab, "Ocean Lab 1". Somehow, almost daily vital documents were stolen and continue to be stolen. A mystery....