4-5/8x21” art board dated “4-7” w/© 1941 King Features Syndicate applied sticker has India ink image area w/ nice blue pencil shading. First panel has text caption “Beginning-the Mystery of the Striped Orchid-“. Superb example has all three main characters relaxing at the beach, including Mandrake in a covered chair, Narda in a sexy two-piece swimsuit, and Lothar reclining in background of panel one. Narda suggests Mandrake “Get Some Sunburn”. He becomes a baked lobster in panel two, then flirts w/her in panel three saying “I Get Heart Failure Every Time I Look At You”. 1x4.5” area at bottom of panels one and two has nice ink inscription to “Little Iodine” cartoonist Jimmy Hatlo by Phantom and Mandrake writer-creator “A Nassau Portrait of the Writer At Work Lee Falk Best of Luck, Jimmy” w/arrow pointing to lobster panel. Reverse side has blue pencil strip title “ That Makes Us Even”. Art is unsigned, but by Phil Davis. Trace of lt.dust soil, otherwise Exc. A classic!