Mandrake and Lothar ride swimming polar bears (no, seriously)
Lee Falk was one of the best storytellers ever to work in newspaper strips. It's a skill of precision. Every day you have to establish what's going on and have something happen, then leave a cliffhanger to make readers want to come back. Writing strips requires a certain rhythmn and economy of words unlike regular prose or comic books or radio or movies. Falk was great at it, there's a reason both Mandrake and the Phantom were so popular for so long.
From December 1936..
Tags: char: mandrake, creator: lee falk, era: golden age
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