The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian to base post-production in the UK, because of recent tax credits there. The film was a moderate success at the box office, grossing over $141 million in the United States and Canada and $278 million in the rest of the world. It received mostly positive reviews from film critics; however, some took issue with the portrayal of all the heroes having British accents while the villains are Spanish in appearance and inflection. The film became 2008's 10th highest-grossing film worldwide. In Narnia, almost 1300 years after the Pevensie siblings left, Caspian, a Telmarine prince, is awoken by his mentor Doctor
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