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

I liked mandrake as a child. I wished they would publish a Spanish edition too.

I received in amazons protected box, in good condition, thanks. Its the original BW version. But AWW(Australian Women's Weekly)’s colored version is also a masterpiece. It should be considered as another colored series.

I liked this book because I'm a great fan of Lee Falk's work- the Phantom above all but also Mandrake- but I was still disappointed. The main reason is the lack of color followed by the landscape format, inconsistent with prior Sunday Vol. 1 (Phil Davis' art). Fred Frederick's art is not bad, but in black and white it appears competent but not exciting. The stories were mostly good, but not great. I like the science fictionish elements of a few stories, which replaced the fantasy elements of the 1930's but overall they are not on a par with stories in the Dailies collection (both Phil Davis and Fred Fredericks). Also too much James Bond plots and action. If cost was a factor why didn't they produce another volume of dailies, with stories already advertised for Volume 2 of Phil Davis' Mandrake Dailies to actually describe Volume 1 of Frederick's Dailies.