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|Title=Mandrake's Bon Voyage
|Title=Mandrake's Bon Voyage
|image=  
|image= [[Image:Mandrake's Bon Voyage.jpg|350px]]
|Start= April 21, 2013
|Start= April 21, 2013
|End=  
|End= November 24, 2013
|Strips=  
|Strips= 32
|Writer= [[Tony DePaul]]
|Writer= [[Tony DePaul]]
|Artist= [[Terry Beatty]]
|Artist= [[Terry Beatty]]
|Colorist= [[Terry Beatty]]
|Preceded= "[[Revenge in Rhodia]]"
|Preceded= "[[Revenge in Rhodia]]"
|Followed= N/A
|Followed= "[[Death Stalks the 5th Phantom|Death Stalks<br>the 5th Phantom]]"
|}}
|}}
'''"Mandrake's Bon Voyage"''' is the 178th Phantom [[Sunday stories|Sunday story]]. The story was written by [[Tony DePaul]] and drawn by [[Terry Beatty]].
'''"Mandrake's Bon Voyage"''' is the 178th Phantom [[Sunday stories|Sunday story]]. The story was written by [[Tony DePaul]] and drawn by [[Terry Beatty]].


== Plot Summary==
== Plot Summary==
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[[Mandrake]] and [[Narda]] invite [[The 21st Phantom|the Phantom]] and [[Diana]] for a masquerade cruise vacation. The Phantom suspects (correctly) that there is a hidden motivation for that invitation. Mandrake admits that the cruise ship has a significant portion of Cockaigne's treasury in its cargo, going to the US for safekeeping.  He asks Phantom for help in protecting the ship's Captain and seeking would-be robbers.


[[Mandrake]] and Narda invite [[The 21st Phantom|the Phantom]] and [[Diana]] for a masquerade cruise vacation. The Phantom suspects (correctly) that there is a hidden motivation for that invitation. Mandrake admits that the cruise ship has a significant portion of Cockaigne's treasury in its cargo, going to the US for safekeeping.  He asks Phantom for help in protecting the ship's Captain and seeking would-be robbers.
The Phantom and Mandrake goes to the cruise, when one of the robbers (one redhead girl with the codename "Cinderella"), takes her costume and goes to one dance in the cruise, when she meets with her two other partners (one brunnete and one blond girl, codenamed "evil stepsisters").
 
The girls prepare and take their guns, meanwhile Mandrake and the Phantom goes to the Jacuzzy with their wives, but in that moment the girls take the cruise and with his guns, take the comand of the cruise ship, the cruise goes changes his destination to a remote island.
 
But Mandrake with his GPS notes this and with Walker, goes to the Captain command, where Mandrake with one illusion of a big iceberg changes the course, but the robbers go to the place and prepare to kill everyone in the room. But The Phantom takes the redhead's gun and Mandrake with other illusion, convinces the other two girls that they are floating in open air, disarming them.
 
When they think that always was better, the redhead in one cell says to Mandrake and the Phantom, that his boss was going to kill they with or without the gold, in other dance in the cruise, Mandrake and the Phantom see that one guy dont want the gold and all the time only want to destroy Mandrake, they best option was goes to the remote island.
 
That day Mandrake and the Phantom takes the Redhead and with and empty gun, goes to the remote island in a little boat, the phantom goes without his sidearm because the boss was expectting unarmed prisioners. While in transit, the Phantom tells Mandrake and the girl that he believes that someone that knows Mandrake very well is behind all this.
 
When they arrive at the island they discover that Luciphor was behind all the plot. The Phantom and Luciphor say hello and remember the old times and the same time the redhead see that The Phantom and Mandrake are her best chance.
 
But Mandrake and The Phantom believe that they are behind the hands of Luciphor, the really true is that some kind of Criminal that call himself "Mind Switch" is behind all, this criminal has Luciphor under his power due to a bomb on his neck, which Mind Switch controls by telekinesis.  It is revealed that Mind Switch is after the Crystal Cubes, powerful artifacts that are featured in various Mandrake stories.
 
Mind Switch activates the bomb in Luciphor's collar just after letting it free and giving Luciphor a moment to throw it away, and it explodes. Later that Mind Swicht show him to Mandrake that he wasn't joking about his power.  He says to Luciphor to put one Collar in the neck of his brother before he is allowed to go.
 
But when Luciphor goes closer with the collar, The Phantom takes the gun of the hands of the redhead and shot to the heands of Luciphor later with Five good shots the phantom do tha the collar goes foward and later this device explotes.  


=== Appearances ===
=== Appearances ===
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'''Recurring characters'''
'''Recurring characters'''
*[[Mandrake the Magician]]
*[[Mandrake the Magician]]
*Narda
*[[Narda]]
*[[The 21st Phantom|The current Phantom]]
*[[The 21st Phantom|The current Phantom]]
*[[Diana Palmer-Walker]]  
*[[Diana Palmer-Walker]]  
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'''One-time characters'''
'''One-time characters'''
*[[Luciphor]], a.k.a. ''The Cobra''
*Mind Switch
*Theron (Mandrake's and Luciphor's father; mentioned)
*Captain L.K. Stanley
*Captain L.K. Stanley
*Unnamed redhead criminal (member of "The Team"), sometimes using a "Cinderella" costume
*Unnamed redhead criminal (member of "The Team"), sometimes in "Cinderella" costume
*Two accomplicces of her in "Evil Sister" costumes
*Two accomplicces (members of "The Team") in "Evil Stepsister" costumes


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***[[The Skull Cave]]
***[[The Skull Cave]]
**Port of [[Mawitaan]]
**Port of [[Mawitaan]]
*Unnamed island
*[http://www.mandrakewiki.org/index.php?title=Cockaigne Cockaigne] (mentioned only)
*[http://www.mandrakewiki.org/index.php?title=Cockaigne Cockaigne] (mentioned only)


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*[http://www.mandrakewiki.org/index.php?title=Inter-Intel Inter-Intel]
*[http://www.mandrakewiki.org/index.php?title=Inter-Intel Inter-Intel]
*Incognito Cruise Lines
*Incognito Cruise Lines
*"The Team", apparently a well-organized robber gang
*"The Team", a criminal gang
'''Vehicles'''
'''Vehicles'''
*A Cruise Ship from "Incognito Cruise Lines"
*A Cruise Ship from "Incognito Cruise Lines"
 
'''Items'''
'''[[Old jungle sayings]]'''
*The Crystal Cubes (powerful items from various Mandrake stories)
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=== Trivia ===
== Behind the scenes  ==
*This is the first appearance of Mandrake's arch enemy Luciphor in a Phantom story.
*A character who appears in the masquerade in this story later makes a cameo appearance in a "Rex Morgan, M.D." story from 2017 by [[Terry Beatty]].


== Related stories ==
== Related stories ==
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== Reprints ==
== Reprints ==
This story has been published in the following publications:
This story has been published in the following publications:
=== [[Image:mini_australia.gif]] Australia ===
*"Mandrake's Bon Voyage", [[The Phantom 1682 (Frew)|''The Phantom'' #1682]] (2013)
=== [[Image:mini_india.gif]] India ===
*''[[Sudha Weekly‎]]'' May 23, 2013 &ndash; December 26, 2013
*''[[The Asian Age]]'' November 24, 2013 &ndash; July 6, 2014
*''[[Deccan Chronicle]]'' November 24, 2013 &ndash; July 6, 2014
*''[[Anandamela]]'' June 5, 2014 &ndash; February 5, 2015
*"Mandrake's Bon Voyage", [[The Phantom 7 (Regal Comics)|''The Phantom'' #7]] (2021)


=== [[Image:mini_Kenya.gif]] Kenya ===
=== [[Image:mini_Kenya.gif]] Kenya ===
*''[[Sunday Nation]]'' April 21, 2013 &ndash; ?, 2013
*''[[Sunday Nation]]'' April 21, 2013 &ndash; December 1, 2013
 
=== [[Image:mini_mexico.gif]] Mexico ===
*''[[El Informador]]'' March 22, 2015 &ndash; July 19, 2015 - ''without the first fourteen weeks''
 
=== [[Image:mini_norway.gif]] Norway ===
*"Mandrakes Bon Voyage", [[Fantomet 5/2015|''Fantomet'' 5/2015]] (colored by [[Reprostugan]])


=== [[Image:mini_El Salvador.png]] El Salvador ===
=== [[Image:mini_El Salvador.png]] El Salvador ===
*"El buen viaje de Mandrake", ''[[La Prensa Gráfica]]'' April 28, 2013 &ndash; ?, 2013
*"El buen viaje de Mandrake", ''[[La Prensa Gráfica]]'' April 28, 2013 &ndash; ?, 2013


=== [[Image:mini_india.gif]] India ===
=== [[Image:mini_sweden.gif]] Sweden ===
*''[[Sudha Weekly‎]]'' May 23, 2013 &ndash; ?, 2013
*"Mandrakes trevliga resa", ''[[Smålänningen]]'' March 7, 2014 &ndash; October 3, 2014
*"Mandrakes Bon Voyage", [[Fantomen 6-7/2015|''Fantomen'' 6-7/2015]] (colored by [[Reprostugan]])
 
=== [[Image:mini_turkey.gif]] Turkey ===
*"Mandrake ile Yolculuk", [[Kızılmaske 44 (Büyülü Çizgi Roman)|''Kızılmaske'' #44]] (2017)


=== [[Image:mini_usa.gif]] USA ===
=== [[Image:mini_usa.gif]] USA ===
*''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' April 21, 2013 &ndash; ?, 2013
*''[[Daytona Beach News-Journal]]'' April 21, 2013 &ndash; December 1, 2013
*''[[Reading Eagle]]'' April 21, 2013 &ndash; December 1, 2013


[[Category:Sunday stories|Mandrake's Bon Voyage]]
[[Category:Sunday stories|Mandrake's Bon Voyage]]
[[Category:2013 Stories|Mandrake's Bon Voyage]]

Revision as of 20:47, 15 February 2021

Mandrake's Bon Voyage
Mandrake's Bon Voyage.jpg
Start date: April 21, 2013
End date: November 24, 2013
# of strips: 32
Writer: Tony DePaul
Artist: Terry Beatty
Original colorist: Terry Beatty
Preceded by: "Revenge in Rhodia"
Followed by: "Death Stalks
the 5th Phantom"

"Mandrake's Bon Voyage" is the 178th Phantom Sunday story. The story was written by Tony DePaul and drawn by Terry Beatty.

Plot Summary

Mandrake and Narda invite the Phantom and Diana for a masquerade cruise vacation. The Phantom suspects (correctly) that there is a hidden motivation for that invitation. Mandrake admits that the cruise ship has a significant portion of Cockaigne's treasury in its cargo, going to the US for safekeeping. He asks Phantom for help in protecting the ship's Captain and seeking would-be robbers.

The Phantom and Mandrake goes to the cruise, when one of the robbers (one redhead girl with the codename "Cinderella"), takes her costume and goes to one dance in the cruise, when she meets with her two other partners (one brunnete and one blond girl, codenamed "evil stepsisters").

The girls prepare and take their guns, meanwhile Mandrake and the Phantom goes to the Jacuzzy with their wives, but in that moment the girls take the cruise and with his guns, take the comand of the cruise ship, the cruise goes changes his destination to a remote island.

But Mandrake with his GPS notes this and with Walker, goes to the Captain command, where Mandrake with one illusion of a big iceberg changes the course, but the robbers go to the place and prepare to kill everyone in the room. But The Phantom takes the redhead's gun and Mandrake with other illusion, convinces the other two girls that they are floating in open air, disarming them.

When they think that always was better, the redhead in one cell says to Mandrake and the Phantom, that his boss was going to kill they with or without the gold, in other dance in the cruise, Mandrake and the Phantom see that one guy dont want the gold and all the time only want to destroy Mandrake, they best option was goes to the remote island.

That day Mandrake and the Phantom takes the Redhead and with and empty gun, goes to the remote island in a little boat, the phantom goes without his sidearm because the boss was expectting unarmed prisioners. While in transit, the Phantom tells Mandrake and the girl that he believes that someone that knows Mandrake very well is behind all this.

When they arrive at the island they discover that Luciphor was behind all the plot. The Phantom and Luciphor say hello and remember the old times and the same time the redhead see that The Phantom and Mandrake are her best chance.

But Mandrake and The Phantom believe that they are behind the hands of Luciphor, the really true is that some kind of Criminal that call himself "Mind Switch" is behind all, this criminal has Luciphor under his power due to a bomb on his neck, which Mind Switch controls by telekinesis. It is revealed that Mind Switch is after the Crystal Cubes, powerful artifacts that are featured in various Mandrake stories.

Mind Switch activates the bomb in Luciphor's collar just after letting it free and giving Luciphor a moment to throw it away, and it explodes. Later that Mind Swicht show him to Mandrake that he wasn't joking about his power. He says to Luciphor to put one Collar in the neck of his brother before he is allowed to go.

But when Luciphor goes closer with the collar, The Phantom takes the gun of the hands of the redhead and shot to the heands of Luciphor later with Five good shots the phantom do tha the collar goes foward and later this device explotes.

Appearances

Recurring characters

One-time characters

  • Luciphor, a.k.a. The Cobra
  • Mind Switch
  • Theron (Mandrake's and Luciphor's father; mentioned)
  • Captain L.K. Stanley
  • Unnamed redhead criminal (member of "The Team"), sometimes in "Cinderella" costume
  • Two accomplicces (members of "The Team") in "Evil Stepsister" costumes

Tribes

Locations

Organizations

  • Inter-Intel
  • Incognito Cruise Lines
  • "The Team", a criminal gang

Vehicles

  • A Cruise Ship from "Incognito Cruise Lines"

Items

  • The Crystal Cubes (powerful items from various Mandrake stories)


Behind the scenes

  • This is the first appearance of Mandrake's arch enemy Luciphor in a Phantom story.
  • A character who appears in the masquerade in this story later makes a cameo appearance in a "Rex Morgan, M.D." story from 2017 by Terry Beatty.

Related stories

Refers to

Reprints

This story has been published in the following publications:

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Mini india.gif India

Mini Kenya.gif Kenya

Mini mexico.gif Mexico

  • El Informador March 22, 2015 – July 19, 2015 - without the first fourteen weeks

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Mini El Salvador.png El Salvador

Mini sweden.gif Sweden

Mini turkey.gif Turkey

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