King Features & Inside Magic Publish

 

Mandrake Comes Home

Inside Magic is proud to announce it has secured the rights to publish Mandrake the Magician.  A true classic and a standard among comic strips, Mandrake the Magician has been mystifying readers since 1934!

King Features Syndicate has licensed Inside Magic to publish this classic comic strip right here, every day. 

Mandrake the Magician was created by Lee Falk during the Great Depression, a time in our nation’s history when adventurous comic strips became popular for their morale-building appeal.

The dapper, mustached magician remains one of the most famous characters in the comic strip medium, his adventures appearing in newspapers worldwide. Mandrake uses his legendary powers of hypnotism and illusion to combat crime.

Mandrake the Magician is also the first comic strip with a racially integrated cast of crime-fighters. Mandrake’s partner in adventure is the gigantic Lothar, and the two of them have been fighting evildoers for decades! Mandrake is also aided by his girlfriend, the lovely and exotic Princess Narda.

Meet the Characters

 

Mandrake

Mandrake The Magician

A suave and sophisticated man of mystery, Mandrake often battles the most remarkable and inventive villains while attired in formal white tie and tails. Equally at home at a swank society affair or among the colorful denizens of the underworld, Mandrake is world-famous for his many remarkable feats.

 

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Mark Wilson to Appear on MagicBroadcast Internet Radio Saturday

 

 

Mark and Lovely Nani

Mark Wilson has done just about all that can be done in the magic business.  Plus, he has a great memory and is a wonderful man.  His new series in Genii, The Inside Story, is fascinating reading.  Who knew his polished, professional television appearances were often assembled with little time, no money, and incomplete rehearsals. 

 

Tonight (Saturday), you will have a chance to talk with this legend of our craft on MagicBroadcast. 

 

His struggles with the networks to provide an incredible weekly show despite the absence of a budget, rehearsal studios, or staff seem impossible given the product that we all saw on live television. 

 

In the several times we?ve met Mr. Wilson, he has been so gracious and kind.  His patience with our questions about his shows (including his consulting with Bill Bixby on NBC?s The Magician) was phenomenal. 

 

It is difficult to imagine a person more deserving of a great ego, and yet Mr. Wilson presents himself as a man truly interested in encouraging others to do well. 

 

Mr. Wilson has recently released his incredible Magic Bingo.  He has used the startling effect since the late 1960s in conjunction with his corporate entertaining.  Everyone in the audience receives a bingo card and is told that as the numbers are read, the first to shout ?bingo,? will win the prize.  We would love to hear the sound of all 3,000 members of a sales team scream out ?bingo? at the same time as they all win on the same last number. 


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