{"product_id":"mandrake-the-magician-the-fred-fredericks-sundays-volume-1","title":"MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN THE FRED FREDERICKS SUNDAYS Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing Frederick's updating of Mandrake in the 1960s, we have a hipper and cooler magician. And yet, both Fredericks and Mandrake's creator \u003cstrong\u003eLee Falk\u003c\/strong\u003e managed to land our top-hatted hero in some pretty outlandish and action-packed adventures on this Earth and beyond--in space! This volume includes the unwelcome return of Mandrake's arch enemy, The Cobra, the introduction of a sinister new crime syndicate called The Underworld and the creation of a counter crime organization called Inter-Intel, headed up by Mandrake.\n\nIt also features the story of the first meeting of Lothar and Mandrake, thus the sub-title of the volume. Eleven complete episodes are here, including \"The Astro Pirates,\" \"The Blackout Caper,\" \"The All or Nothing Hunt,\" \"The Galactic Rumble,\" and many more.\n\nAndreas Eriksson provides a four-page introduction, \"My Mandrake Artist.\" As Andreas writes, \"Fredericks came along, although by necessity, at a perfect time for \u003cem\u003eMandrake\u003c\/em\u003e.The \"Phil Davis style\" was going out of fashion, and while still popular among the old fans it did little to attract new readers, especially when other newspaper strips offered more exciting art, compared with the stylized form Davis had settled on during his last years.\"\n\n\"Fred was a generation younger than Phil, but already an experienced artist by the time he took on \u003cem\u003eMandrake\u003c\/em\u003e. He had a long list of credits for \u003cem\u003eGold Key\u003c\/em\u003e comics, [such as] a realistic style like \u003cem\u003eBoris Karloff \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Twilight Zone...\u003c\/em\u003eeffortlessly he captured motion and emotion, unlike Davis who I felt was stiff and rigid by comparison.\"\n\n\"During his 65 years of writing \u003cem\u003eMandrake\u003c\/em\u003e and 63 years of writing \u003cem\u003eThe Phantom\u003c\/em\u003e, Lee Falk rarely met the artists he worked with. The exception to the rule was Fred Fredericks. From 1972 and for the next 27 years, the two men would meet for lunch regularly, primarily for Lee to deliver new Mandrake scripts, but also to talk about comics, movies, theatre and show business. It's clear that of all the artists Falk worked with, he got along best with Fred...\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Titan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59639765074206,"sku":"MANFS01H","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/product_m_a_manfs01h-mandrake-fred-fredericks_1.jpg?v=1784473568","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/mandrake-the-magician-the-fred-fredericks-sundays-volume-1","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}