Cultural Legacy
Baseball player Don Mueller, an outfielder for the New York Giants on their 1951 National League pennant winners and 1954 World Championship teams, was known as "Mandrake the Magician" for his hitting ability.
Mandrake the Magician appears briefly in the Beatles film Yellow Submarine.
The Mandrake Mechanism is a term coined by G. Edward Griffin to describe the process by which money is created by the Federal Reserve.
In the TV series MacGyver, Pete Thornton refers to Jack Dalton as "a real Mandrake the Magician" (Season 3, Ep45)
The magician John Mandrake is one of the main characters of the Bartimaeus Trilogy.
Story sequences can be read at Steve Cottle's I Love Comix Archive.
Serbian Alternative rock band Disciplina Kičme has a song, called "Betmen, Mandrak, Fantom" (Batman, Mandrake, Phantom).
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