Mandrake the Magician: The Complete Series: The King Years Volume 2

by Gary Poole, Fred Fredericks (Artist), Ray Bailey (Artist)

Hermes Press’ complete reprint, the second volume and final volume of the series, of the comic book version of the 20th Century’s most famous fictional magician in this deluxe version of King Features comics’ ― and Dell’s Four Color Comics’ ― Mandrake the Magician!  Lee Falk’s newspaper strip, Mandrake the Magician, offered readers, magic, occult and the fantastic and King Feature’s comic book version, which saw print during the height of the Silver Age, was a worthy entry into the world of comic books. 
     This Second volume of the complete comic book run of Mandrake the Magician presents six complete comics (issues #6-10 of King Comics and issue #752 of Dell's Four Color Comics) restored to their original four color glory.  This volume also contains and extensive interview with Fred Fredericks, who worked on the comic strip and well as the comic books for over 25 years and an in-depth historical essay with tons of extras!

Genres: Comics

176 pages, Hardcover

Published December 20, 2016

Reviews

[Francisco Becerra · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's sad to see that with each entrance the quality diminishes very sharply, and there are included other tales of other characters that are just fillers. Still, they are a funny read and Mandrake will always be the first "superpowered" hero.