{"product_id":"mandrake-the-magician-hc-vol-05-the-complete-newspaper-dailies-19411943-0626hp0880","title":"MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN HC VOL 05 THE COMPLETE NEWSPAPER DAILIES (1941-1943) (28 Oct Release)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMandrake the Magician began as a daily strip on June 11¸ 1934¸ and whether Lee Falk knew it as a sophomore at the University of Illinois¸ he was making history. The daily strip ended after a 79-year run¸ and the Sunday strip¸ which started in 1935¸ ran for 68 years. Any fan of comic strips is almost certainly familiar with Falk’s other creation¸ The Phantom¸ which started in 1936 and continues to this day. The strips presented in this series of reprints feature two staple characters in addition to the master magician: Lothar and Princess Narda (princess of the mythical European kingdom Cockaigne). Lothar appears within the first few days (June 14¸ 1934)¸ and Narda is introduced in Mandrake’s second adventure. Narda is similar to \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/flash-gordon\"\u003eFlash Gordon\u003c\/a\u003e’s Dale Arden: beautiful¸ constantly in need of rescue¸ and the love interest of our hero. A Prince of the Seven Nations of Africa¸ Lothar is Mandrake’s devoted servant¸ friend and companion. He is¸ “the strongest man in the world¸” and decked out in a fez¸ shorts¸ and a leopard shirt. Comics historian Don Markstein commented that¸ “Some people say Mandrake the Magician...was comics’ first superhero¸” and we at Hermes Press couldn’t agree more. Volume five presents: “The Mystery of the Striped Orchid¸” 4\/7\/1941 - 6\/21\/1941; “The Great Grando¸” 6\/23\/1941 - 11\/8\/194; “Lothar The Champ¸” 11\/10\/1941 - 7\/11\/194; “The Rumor Factory¸” 7\/13\/1942 - 9\/12\/194; and “Baron Kord¸” 9\/14\/1942 - 4\/10\/1943.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HERMES PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41428644659258,"sku":"0626HP0880","price":91.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0265\/6609\/9002\/files\/0626HP0880.jpg?v=1780707539","url":"https:\/\/mangataku.comicbookeroo.com\/products\/mandrake-the-magician-hc-vol-05-the-complete-newspaper-dailies-19411943-0626hp0880","provider":"Comicbookeroo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}