Mandrake the Magician: Fred Fredericks Sundays Vol. 1: The Meeting of Mandrake and Lothar

Description

The continuing adventures of the world's first costumed crime fighter. This is the first collection of the Fred Fredericks' Mandrake The Magician Sunday comic strips. Offering a heady mix of action, adventure, high jinx and drama! Following Frederick's updating of Mandrake Welcome to Mandrake the Magician of the 1960s, hipper and cooler than his 1930s incarnation thanks to the art stylings of Fred Fredricks. And yet, both Fredericks and Mandrake's creator Lee Falk managed to land our top-hatted hero into some pretty outlandish and action-packed adventures on this Earth and beyond! This volume includes the unwelcome return of Mandrake's arch enemy, The Cobra, the introduction of a sinister new crime syndicate called The Underworld and the creation of counter crime organization called Inter-Intel, headed up by Mandrake.

Lee Falk, born Leon Harrison Gross (April 28, 1911 - March 13, 1999), was an American writer, theater director and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strips The Phantom (1936-present) and Mandrake the Magician (1934-2013). At the height of their popularity, these strips attracted over 100 million readers every day. Falk also wrote short stories, and he contributed to a series of pulp novels about The Phantom. Fred Fredericks sold his first cartoon at the age of 18, and in the late 1940's he worked for The Press of Atlantic City. In 1950 he joined the marine corps and served in the Korean War. In 1953 he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City and began to create historical comics as well as commercial illustrations. Several of his historical comics were syndicated in the late 1950's and early 1960's. he drew Nancy, The Twilight Zone, Mighty Mouse, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, Bullwinkle, Mister Ed and The Munsters for Dell and Gold Key. In 1965 following the death of Phil Davis, Fred became the new artist on the "Mandrake the Magician" newspaper strip.

"This collection is Sunday morning escapism at its very best." - New York Journal of Books "Beautifully reproduced ...should be considered a 'must' for the legions of dedicated Mandrake the Magician fans! "- Midwest Book Review