Mandrake the Magician [SEP] creator
Mandrake the Magician
Mandrake the Magician was a syndicated newspaper comic strip, created by Lee Falk (before he created "The Phantom"). "Mandrake" began publication on June 11, 1934. Phil Davis soon took over as the strip's illustrator, while Falk continued to script. The strip was distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Mandrake, along with the Phantom Magician in Mel Graff's "The Adventures of Patsy", is regarded by comics historians as the first superhero of comics, such as comics historian
to being a descendant of the "Homo magi"), which he focused through speaking backwards: he could do anything so long as he could describe it in ("backwards speech"). This helped distinguish Zatara from the numerous Mandrake the Magician knockoffs that cluttered the comics and pulp magazines of the day, although Merlin the Magician (Quality Comics) also had this attribute, and it was also given to him by Zatara's creator, Fred Guardineer.
His love of magic began early when he was given a