Mandrake The Magician 1939 Chapter 02

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Step into the velvet-draped world of stage illusions, hypnotic stares, dashing capes, and deadly secrets with Mandrake the Magician (1939) — one of Columbia Pictures’ most stylish and surreal adventure serials. Before superheroes ruled the screen, Mandrake was already outwitting deathtraps, confounding criminals, and slipping through shadows with nothing but sleight-of-hand, steel nerves, and the power of suggestion.

Based on the wildly popular newspaper strip by Lee Falk (creator of The Phantom), this 12-chapter serial pits Mandrake and his loyal companion Lothar against “The Wasp,” a masked mastermind scheming to control a devastating radium-powered device. Expect everything from mysterious mansions to exotic hideouts, vanishing acts gone wrong, cliffhangers, fistfights, hypnotic showdowns, and the kind of pulp-fiction bravado that defined an entire era of adventure storytelling.

Starring:
• Warren Hull as Mandrake — suave, quick-witted, and impossibly unflappable
• Al Kikume as Lothar — strongman, friend, and the first heroic Polynesian character in serial history
• Doris Weston as Betty Houston
• Edward Earle as Dr. Houston
• Don Beddoe as the sinister “Wasp”

Mandrake was one of pop culture’s earliest “proto-superheroes,” influencing everything from Doctor Strange to Zatara to modern stage-magic aesthetics. If you’re building a timeline of where the superhero genre really began, this serial sits proudly near the roots.

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This is chapter 2