Mandrake the Magician

Hello, and thank you for watching. Today’s topic: Mandrake the Magician Kreskin was inspired at least in part by Mandrake Mandrake the Magician was a syndicated newspaper comic strip, created by Lee Falk. Mandrake began publication on June 11, 1934. Phil Davis took over as the strip's illustrator. Falk continued to script. Don Markstein said, "Some people say Mandrake the Magician, who started in 1934, was comics' first superhero." Davis worked on the strip until his death in 1964, when Falk recruited artist Fred Fredericks. With Falk's death in 1999, Fredericks became both writer and artist. The Sunday-newspaper Mandrake strip ended December 29, 2002. The daily newspaper strip ended mid-story on July 6, 2013. In 1939, Columbia produced a 12-part Mandrake the Magician serial, based on the King Features strip, starring Warren Hull as Mandrake and Al Kikume as Lothar. The serial is available on DVD. I hope you enjoy what you see here. If you do, please subscribe, and please comment. I’d love to hear from you. Much love, David Dellman https://daviddellman.com/ You can also find me on Facebook here:   / davidjanisd