Jumbo Comics #23

(January 1941)

Swamp of the Green Terror ["I've never ridden an elephant as easy to..."] (Table of Contents)

Sheena / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as W. Morgan Thomas]

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Bob; Queen Nada; Chim; Buta

Indexer Notes

Title is from the cover. Signed on last panel.

["In the last installment Peter and his friends..."] (Table of Contents)

Peter Pupp / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Golleh]

Pencils:

Bob Kane

Inks:

Bob Kane

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Tinymite; Zula; Professor Watt A. Dogg

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #5 (January 1939)

["A carriage draws up before the four bell..."] (Table of Contents)

The Hawk / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [by Willis Rensie]

Pencils:

Will Eisner; Art Saaf

Inks:

Will Eisner; Art Saaf

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

historical

Characters:

Fluth; Claw Carlos; Count Richelle; Princess Helena; Murdock

Indexer Notes

Per Mort Leav, Art Saaf was given old Eisner material and assigned to re-write, re-compose, and fill in the gaps to create "new" Eisner Hawk stories (Robin Snyder's The Comics).

["Lightning strikes once, twice, three times to save..."] (Table of Contents)

Lightning / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Teller Tayles]`

Pencils:

Charles Wotjkoski

Inks:

Art Pinajian?; Charles Wotjkoski?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

General Larkin

["Gee whiz! Just when the tenth chapter of..."] (Table of Contents)

Bobby / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

S. M. Iger

Pencils:

S. M. Iger

Inks:

S. M. Iger

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Mr. Von Snitzel

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #5 (January 1939)

["Taylor and Hayward have escaped my power,"] (Table of Contents)

Stuart Taylor / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Lou Fine; shop?

Inks:

shop?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Ali Pasha; Dr. Hayward; The Great Khan

Indexer Notes

This has all of the signs of a collage of panels from an early Lou Fine episode, tied together with shop art.

Murder By Telephone (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tom Alexander

Pencils:

Nick Cardy?

Inks:

Nick Cardy?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

crime

["Yes sir, I am Jim Carson. What can..."] (Table of Contents)

ZX-5 Spies In Action / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Major Thorpe]

Pencils:

Charles Quinlan

Inks:

Charles Quinlan

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Mike the "Mac"; Mary Lynn; Johnny the "Newsy"

["Galloping across the purple sage of the plains,"] (Table of Contents)

Wilton of the West / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Fred Sande]

Pencils:

Lou Fine?

Inks:

Lou Fine?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Mark Johnson; Amy Dolson; Pete Dolson; Sagawan

["Inspector Dayton is at home when an urgent..."] (Table of Contents)

Inspector Dayton / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as George Thatcher]

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Wini; Oriental villain called only "The Master."

Indexer Notes

This feels like early "Inspector Dayton" art reused. The style is very erratic and doesn't seem to be very unified. The story lacks cohesion as well.

["Tom, Dick and Harry, American aviators who have..."] (Table of Contents)

Tom, Dick, and Harry / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

? [as Charles Tansul]

Pencils:

Charles Sultan

Inks:

Charles Sultan

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

war

Characters:

Lord Angus McGregor; Jock