The Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is a Canadian daily newspaper published, in English language, in Toronto (Ontario).
The newspaper appears as the "Evening Star" on November 3, 1892 before becoming the "Toronto Daily Star" on January 24, 1900. With 650 employees and a circlation of 175.000 it had become in 1929 the largest circlation daily newspaper in Canada. From 1910 to 1973, the Star published a weekend supplement, "The Star Weekly", which included a large Sunday pages comics section.
Between February 1929 to November 1971, the headquarters of the Toronto Star were located in an Art Deco office tower building based at 80 King Street West, Toronto. Joe Shuster - co-creator of "Superman" - has worked as a "Toronto Daily Star" newsboy before his family moved to Cleveland (USA) when he was 10 years old. The comic character Clark Kent, alter ego of Superman, works as reporter in a newspaper "Daily Star" named after the "Toronto Daily Star". The office skyscraper was finally demolished in 1972; it was the second tallest voluntarily demolished building in Canada; the newspaper offices are now established One Yonge Street (known as the Toronto Star Building) in a 25-storey office building.
As far as the "Mandrake the Magician" is concerned, dailies strips were featured from, at least, 1946 to 1953 (any precise dates remain to be determined). Current Mandrake stories from the "comicskingdom.com" internet site appear on the newspaper website, "thestar.com".
Samples
Daily logo (12/1953)
80 King Street, Toronto
Mandrake daily / November 20, 1947
Mandrake daily / March 12, 1948
