Comic #71 : Mandrake Sunday : S146 - Mandrake's Masquerade(The Xanadu Story)

UPDATE(27/9): আজ শুভ মহালয়া। দেবীপক্ষের সূচনা।
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The famous Xanadu story.Indrajal version is already available on-line in both Bengali & English and now you can enjoy the original colored strip version. Only,this is bit incomplete - missing some 4/5 sunday pages - but still that won't hamper the fun much! Again,this is another contribution from our friends Dan and Magnus..

You can also read a very nice article on Xanadu from Xanadu : http://pjb.hopto.org/index.php?id=13&xr=146

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Comic #69 : The First Complete Sunday-strip by Fred Fredricks : A Mandrake Classic - The Cobra Returns(S097 ; 1965)

Starting with The Cobra Returns,quite a few modifications/introductions were made in the Mandrake's  universe!!

This classic itself has some major highlights as follows:

1.This was the first complete illustration done by Fred Fredrick's,after he finished Davis' incomplete work in The Traveller's Tale(S096) and what a story to start-off! Needless to mention, he was just brilliant from his very first (complete) assignment! :-)

2.Intro of Xanadu - the  fabulous mountain-top mansion of Mandrake - and it's crazy drive-way!!

3.Intro of Inter-Intel as well as Jed.

4.Return of the oldest,and supposed to be dead,enemy of Mandrake & co. - The Cobra!!

Some special moments....

First time we heard about Inter-Intel and so the unique entrance of  Xanadu...

"What a view! What a drop!"

Cobra...still ALIVE???

Finally....Cobra strikes!!!

[Note: This is a long strip and some pages are in Swedish as we yet to locate their original colored English counter-parts. But hopefully,that won't hamper your understanding of the plot as major part of the story is in English!Cheers!!]

Download S097 - The Cobra Returns