Mandrake the Magician Feature Book (1938) 52

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Stories by Lee Falk and Clark Kinnaird. Art by Phil Davis. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay's Feature Book was the first US comic book to devote complete issues to a single character. This issue reprinted the adventures of the comic strip magician, considered one of the first superheroes of comics. Collects the Mandrake the Magician Sunday strips from 1936 to 1937. Mandrake and Lothar join a circus train on its journey, but a suspicious couple and a deadly train collision force Mandrake into action. Mandrake teaches the reader magic tricks, a feature of the original strip. In the Land of X; The Circus People; Tricks You Can Do. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.