The Silver Chair King Caspian; by failing to greet him they have missed the first Sign. Trumpkin the Dwarf, now Lord Regent and very elderly and deaf, provides Jill and Eustace with rooms in Cair Paravel, but on the advice of Glimfeather the Owl they make no mention of their quest. Glimfeather summons them to a Parliament of his fellow talking owls, who explain that Prince Rilian disappeared a decade earlier while searching for the green serpent that killed his mother. Jill and Eustace are flown to the marshes on the northern edge of Narnia where they meet their guide, Puddleglum, a gloomy
Mandrake the Magician a clever reference to the explosive's blast. Mandrake had a prominent role in "Magic Comics" and Big Little Books (published by Whitman) of the 1930s and 1940s. Dell Comics published a "Mandrake the Magician" issue in their "Four Color" comic book series with various main characters. The "Mandrake" issue was #752 and featured original stories by Stan Campell and written by Paul Newman. In 1966–67, King Comics published ten issues of a "Mandrake the Magician" comic book. Most of the stories were remakes of past newspaper strip stories and featured art by André LeBlanc, and others. "Mandrake" stories also ran