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Mandrake Cover Project #4 :The League of "8" special
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Friends,in this NEW post,I'm presenting some great covers of "The League of 8" stories were published in Indrajal Comics!
The first ever introduction with Mandrake Co. with this deadly ancient and secret crime-gang was way back in 1965 in the story "The treacherous gang" as No.77,when Narda accidentally discovered the existence of this Medieval gang in modern days..during her research in History!!
Next,it was amazing tale "The Trail of 8" (IJC No.144)" followed by "Dr.Dell and 8 (D136;1968)"- a very late publication in IJC as the 'Giant Octopus (No.226;1976) n republished in Vol.23 No.10'.....
But,his crime gang was much more deadly & wold-wide than Mandrake and Chief could imagined. They made their return once again in "The Bribe (D141)" published in IJC as 'False Will' (No.163).
[One "8" story,'The test of magician' was published as 2-part back-up story with Phantom ,No.327 n 328;1979]
[One "8" story,'The test of magician' was published as 2-part back-up story with Phantom ,No.327 n 328;1979]
Since then,with regular intervals, Mandrake/Lothar had fought against "8" and Octon -the mysterious leader,destroyed each time a more 'arm ' among their world-wide eight arms!!
The LAST '8' appeared in IJC as "The claws of Treasury(Vol.25 No.30 & 31; 1988)"....
P.S.- The LAST Mandrake Daily published in IJC was D202(secret invention; Vol.27 No.4) and the very next one,D203 was another splendid adventure on this crime-gang,"The gift of 8"..which we majority missed!! :-(
Wait!!.... it was NOT the end,one can witnessed the climax of these thriller series only in D211(The Book of Criminals;1992) & D217(Secret Place;1994) ,in later one,Octon was revealed and HE WAS NONE OTHER THAN...guess???.....COBRA aka Lucifer!!..the evil bro of Mandrake!!!
Thus,with that strip, this legendary secret crime-gang was apparently finished,though Falk was initiated to telling another tale on "8" ,but couldn't complete due to his illness followed by his death in March,1999......Later,it was completed by Fredricks with a complete different angle.It was the LAST Falk-Mandrake Daily: D231(The secret Mission) .
You can d/l it from HERE!!
388 Nkali Chere
Scanned by Prashant Gupta.
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Vol22-33 Queen Sheba's Necklace I
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404 The Vengeful Out Laws
Scanned by Prashant Gupta.
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Mandrake Cover Project#3 : Central Galaxy and Magnon special
Magnon! ....it said,he is the mightiest friend of Mandrake -the Magician!!
He's the ruler of million planets of Central Galaxy and lives, with his beautiful wife Carola and daughter Nardraka , in the planet Magna -- which is 30,000 light-years away from our Earth!!
Mandrake and Magnon first ever met through the famous Galactic Beauty Contest,where eventually Narda was the winner!! Though that story(a 1955 strip) never appeared in Indrajal,except a couple of recapitulations in later stories...
Now friends,have a look on those Indrajal-Mandrake featured his adventures in Magnon's Central Galaxy !
[Introductory story was Ratmen of Rhodencia(No.200) and last was effectively Magnon's Glorious Reign (Vol.23 No.47/48),all though that No.200 was repeated as Vol.24 No.45]
#218: The Mystery of the Stone Face
It's originally posted at Mandrake The Magician.
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Request from Chandan. Hope he will not bother me for a few days.Here is another Indrajal master piece courtesy of Ajay Mishra & Vineeth Abraham. Excellent scan quality. Narda looks awesome. What do you all think? Have a great weekend.
I have this story as a strip and will be presenting it soon.
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