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Mandrake the Magician Feature Book (1938) comic books 1940

  • Issue #23
    Mandrake the Magician Feature Book (1938) 23
    • 2" Cumulative spine split (partially taped). Cover detached.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Stories by Lee Falk. Art and cover 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 daily and Sunday strips from July 11th to December 3rd, 1938. Arrogant athlete Nick Blozz won't stop pestering a young heiress. The lovely Narda seeks Mandrake's help after her brother gambles away the family fortune, and she becomes his longtime companion (and eventual wife). Blozz the Champion; Mandrake the Magician in Teiba Castle. 9-in. x 12-in., 124 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.