Mandrake the Magician Archives

But Zatara himself was clearly inspired by iconic comic strip magician, Mandrake.  There's a nice early group of Magic Comics featuring Mandrake the Magician up for auction at the 2022 March 27-28 Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction #122213 from Heritage Auctions. Magic Comics featuring Mandrake the Magician (David McKay Publications, 1941). There's a surprising lack[...]

Mandrake The Magician is being reinvented by Erica Schultz for Red 5 Comics in Legacy Of Mandrake The Magician #1 with Diego Giribaldi and Juan Pablo Massa with a young woman Mandy Paz having the mantle descend upon her You can also pick up a SDCC exclusive version right now rather than waiting for Red[...]

Here we have a few pages from King: Mandrake The Magician #3 showing the process art by Felipe Cunha and Ivan Rodriguez with colors by Omi Remalante These are from a script by Roger Langridge. Impossible dungeons! The world's leaders are bowing to the evil oppression of The Great Cobra! Can Mandrake and his witch companion[...]

We have a look at the process art from Dynamite's miniseries King: Mandrake the Magician #2 The art is by Jeremy Treece with colors by Omi Remalante from a script by Roger Langridge. This series ties in with the other King miniseries featuring The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim and Prince Valiant. PSYCHIC FIRE! Mandrake's home is[...]

Here we have six exclusive extended preview for Dynamite books in stores this Wednesday including the first issue of King: Mandrake the Magician, the 100th issue of Red Sonja and the final issue of Vampirella: Feary Tales Alice Cooper #6 Brandon Jerwa (w) Nacho Tenorio (a) David Mack (c) "LIFE AND DEATH OF THE PARTY" – Alice Cooper,[...]

There are three Rob Liefeld covers… a Prince Valiant we've shown you before, a Jungle Jim one we haven't shown and a Mandrake the Magician one that we don't get to show… plus there is a Mike Mayhew cover for Lady Demon and a Cedric Poulat cover for Legenderry: Vampirella If any of these covers[...]

Here we have some interior pages from the upcoming King Features Crossover series from Dynamite, King: Mandrake the Magician The book is being written by Roger Langridge and drawn by Jeremy Treece with a first issue cover by Darwyn Cooke. For more on King: Mandrake The Magician #1, click here. Here we have some interior pages from[...]

Part of that event is a Mandrake the Magician series written by Roger Langridge Byron Brewer chatted with the writer about taking on such a classic character. BYRON BREWER: Roger, what is there about Mandrake that separates him from all the other magic-based characters in comicdom (Dr Strange, Dr Fate, etc.)? And please do not answer,[...]

With Dynamite's upcoming relaunch of the King Features characters, we've been spotlighting some of the different writers and we turn now to the scribe behind Mandrake the Magician, Roger Langridge. BYRON BREWER: Roger, how does it feel to be part of such an important event as the 100th anniversary of King Feature Syndicate, and seeing all[...]

The event will bring together some of history's most famous comic strip heroes – Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, Prince Valiant, The Phantom, and Jungle Jim, to comic books with five miniseries that build to a grand crossover in May. Each launch issue of the King event features an interlocking cover by acclaimed artist Darwyn Cooke[...]

It's a Dynamite series written by Jeff Parker and art by Marc Laming and combines the classic characters of Flash Gordon, The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician (Marvel published it as the Defenders of the Earth years ago.) The first five issues of the series have been collected in a trade and it comes out[...]