Trivia / Sandokan

• Cash-Cow Franchise: Became one after Salgari's death, as the editor had other authors (including Salgari's son Omar) write other Sandokan novels.
• Died During Production: Salgari killed himself in 1911, after completing An Empire Crumbles (intended to be a single novel with The Brahman but published in two parts) and writing the first draft of Yanez's Revenge. The two novels were published posthumously, and Yanez's Revenge contains a few plot holes.
• Executive Meddling: The very reason we have a Sandokan saga instead of a Tremal Naik saga: reprints of The Tigers of Mompracem had outsold The Mystery of the Black Jungle by a fair margin. Still, the publisher asked Salgari to bring Tremal-Naik back.

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