BY AUGUST FOLLY
Magnificent Vol 1
There is no magic. Only the tricks we agree to believe. Inspired by Lee Falk’s 1930s comic strip, Mandrake the Magician
William Mandrake wears a 1930s tuxedo to high school. They call him a freak. He calls himself Magnificent.
When his mother dies on his eighteenth birthday, he inherits a house, and one final instruction:Build yourself trick by trick, until the world believes.
Hypnosis. Cold reading. A magician’s grin. A blind girl tastes dragons in the air. A bully falls to her knees. An armed robber hands over his gun.
Mandrake the Magnificent Grief forged into genius. Love disguised as performance. No spells. And the greatest trick of all: becoming exactly who you said you were.