The Sky Pirates
| The Sky Pirates | |
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| Start date: | June 24th, 1979 |
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| End date: | August 26th, 1979 |
| # of strips: | 10 (10 weeks) |
| Writer: | Lee Falk |
| Artist: | Fred Fredericks |
| Preceded by: | "The Mysterious Birds" |
| Followed by: | "Lothar's Workout" |
"The Sky Pirates" is the 140th Mandrake Sunday story. The story was written by Lee Falk and drawn by Fred Fredericks.
Plot Summary
After their adventure with "The Mysterious Birds" Mandrake and Lothar takes a plane back home to New York, without being aware of three hijackers aboard.
Appearances
Recurring characters
One-time characters
- A purce-snatcher, at an airport
- Plane 412
- Peg, a hijacker
- Jack, a hijacker
- Joel, an airport security guard and hijacker
Locations
- A foreign country
- New York City
Behind the scenes
- At the deepwoods.org index the title for this story is "The Sky Pirates", which is lifted from the plot.
Signifiant cover
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Italy
Reprints
This story has been published in the following publications:
Argentina
- "Ladrones a Bordo", Sandokan #13 (1982)
- "no title", Grandes personajes T.V. Color #3 (1989)
France
- "Les pirates de l'air", Mandrake #451 (1980)
India
- "The Law Breakers", Indrajal Comics #362 (1980)
Italy
- "Rapina ad alta quota", Mandrake #96 (1980)
- "Rapina ad alta quota", Mandrake - New Comics Now #399 (1997)
Turkey
- "Hava Soygunu", Mandrake Albüm #155
- "Hava Soygunu", Mandrake Süper Albüm #60