Mandrake the Magician

See also: the stage magician Leon Mandrake.

Mandrake the Magician is a U.S. comic strip created in 1934 by Lee Falk (also creator of The Phantom) and mainly appearing in syndication in newspapers. Mandrake is important to magicians and the magic fraternity because he is widely believed to have been the first bona fide superhero.

Mandrake was an illusionist whose work was based on an impossibly fast hypnotic technique.

In 1939, Columbia produced a 12-part series, based on the King Features strip, starring Warren Hull as Mandrake and Al Kikume as Lothar.

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