Jumbo Comics #29

(July 1941)

Elephant-Scourge (Table of Contents: 1)

Sheena / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

? [as W. Morgan Thomas] (credited)

Pencils

Bob Webb (signed as R. H. Webb)

Inks

Bob Webb (signed as R. H. Webb)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Stampeding beasts and treacherous pygmies clash with deadly...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Sheena; Bob Reynolds

Indexer Notes

Title taken from cover.

Possible Bob Powell inks on Sheena's face.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Curt Davis] (credited)

Pencils

Sy Reit

Inks

Sy Reit

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A strange journey through time and space whisks...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Stuart Taylor; Dr. Hayward; Jir Haffa; "Kings of Darkness"

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Bobby / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

S. M. Iger (signed)

Pencils

S. M. Iger (signed)

Inks

S. M. Iger (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

How many kites can I make out of...

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Bobby

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Midnight / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Art Saaf

Inks

Art Saaf

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Midnight is a three year old now and...

Genre

western-frontier; animal

Characters

Midnight (a black stallion); Mex; Jim Burton; Helen Burton; Ted Wilmot

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Lightning / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Teller Tayles] (credited)

Pencils

?

Inks

Max Elkan ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Major Larkin responds to a frantic call from...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Lightning [Fred Larkin]; Major Larkin; Pandro

Indexer Notes

Same art as previous three issues. The penciller is quite good - too good, in my opinion, to be Elkan, although Hames keeps seeing him here. I would concur if restricted to inks.

Red Magic (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Dana Dutch (credited)

Pencils

? (2 spot illustrations)

Inks

? (2 spot illustrations)

Colors

? (2 spot illustrations)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Outer Mongolia! Before me streetched...

Genre

adventure

Indexer Notes

Since Dana Dutch is a real person, does this imply that the other text story writing credits are also real?
Keith Chandler says, we know that "Tom Alexander" is Toni Blum, but some others may be real people.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Inspector Dayton / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

? [as George Thatcher] (credited)

Pencils

Art Saaf

Inks

Art Saaf

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Months of gang busting and crook catching have...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Inspector Dayton; Ol' Doc Filberry; Jug-Haid Jeffers; Jeb Jeffers; Lou Barton; Mutton Jeffers; The Brewsters

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

ZX-5 Spies In Action / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Major Thorpe] (credited)

Pencils

Mort Leav

Inks

Al Bryant ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Paris in wartime is loyal to her native...

Genre

spy

Characters

ZX-5; Apaches [René & Emile]; Enrique; Mimi; Gaston; Alphonse

Indexer Notes

Inks definitely improve with this episode, so Al Bryant is a strong contender for the reason why.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Pee Wee / comic story / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

S. M. Iger (credited)

Pencils

S. M. Iger (credited)

Inks

S. M. Iger (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

What's the matter, son?

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Pee Wee Myers

Reprints

• At least the joke (if not the art) is recycled.

[No Smoking][Speed Limit 15 Miles Per Hour] (Table of Contents: 10)

Uncle Otto / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Will Eisner (credited as Heck)

Pencils

Will Eisner (credited as Heck)

Inks

Will Eisner (credited as Heck)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor

Characters

Uncle Otto

Reprints

• from Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #17 (July 1940)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script

? [as Charles Tansul] (credited)

Pencils

?

Inks

Max Elkan ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The god of war rides the air lanes...

Genre

war

Characters

Tom Devlin, Dick Swenson; Harry Carson

Indexer Notes

Is Elkan here, too? Penciller may be the same but the inks are somewhat cruder. This is about contemporaneous with signed Elkan at Quality. There he takes after Reed Crandall - a style NOT evident here.

Note that "Tansul" is an anagram of "Sultan".

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Hawks of the Seas / The Hawk / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Will Eisner (credited as Willis Rensie); Art Saaf

Pencils

Will Eisner (credited as Willis Rensie); Art Saaf

Inks

Will Eisner (credited as Willis Rensie); Art Saaf

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Piracy on the high seas!!...The Caribbean is...

Genre

adventure; historical

Characters

The Hawk; Captain Petrie; Fluth; Caleb; Maru

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).