Mandrake The Magician

Mandrake the Magician is a super hero that was created by Lee Falk. Mandrake the Magician was first published in 1934, during the Great Depression, and continued to be published until 2013. The superhero was, as the title implies, a magician. The comic strip was also the first to be racially integrated, and contained crime fighters of different races. Over the years Mandrake the Magician had several writers and artists. Mandrake the Magician was originally created by Leon “Lee” Falk in 1934. Mr. Falk was born in 1911 in St. Louis, Missouri to Jewish parents. His father died when he was a young boy. Although his birth name was Leon Harrison Gross, he later dropped his last name and took his stepfather's middle name “Falk,” as his last name.