(August 1953)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell Comic
- Editing:
- ?
- Color:
- Color
- Dimensions:
- Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S.
- Paper Stock:
- Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
- Binding:
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format:
- Was Ongoing Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Rudyard Kipling's MOWGLI JUNGLE BOOK, No. 487." Code number is MOWGLI O.S. #487-538. "Picturized version based upon the "Mowgli" stories from "The Jungle Book" (or "The Second Jungle Book" as the case may be) by Rudyard Kipling. Authorized Edition." Copyright 1953 by Western Printing & Lithographing Company.
[no title indexed]
Mowgli / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Inks:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
- Colors:
- Morris Gollub (painting)
Content Information
- Genre:
- jungle
- Characters:
- Mowgli; Shere Khan (tiger)
- Keywords:
- jungles; tigers
Indexer Notes
Cover art credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
The Jungle Folk
Mowgli / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils:
- Morris Gollub
- Inks:
- Morris Gollub
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- jungle
- Characters:
- Rasha the Demon (wolf); Baloo (bear); Bagheera (panther); Kaa (python); Bandar-log (monkeys); Rann (bird); Shere Khan (tiger)
- Synopsis:
- Introduction of supporting cast. Mowgli does not appear.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli
Mowgli / comic story / 34 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Rudyard Kipling (original stories); Paul S. Newman (comic adaptations)
- Pencils:
- Morris Gollub
- Inks:
- Morris Gollub
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- jungle; animal
- Characters:
- Mowgli; Rasha the Demon (wolf); Baloo (bear); Bagheera (panther); Kaa (python); Bandar-Log (monkeys); Rann (bird); Shere Khan (tiger)
- Synopsis:
- The story of Mowgli, a boy raised by a wolf pack and instructed in the ways of the jungle by Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther. Mowgli is threatened by the Bandar-Log (monkey people) and Shere Khan, a crippled tiger.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Story is adapted in part from "Mowgli's Brothers" and "Kaa's Hunting" from the 1894 collection "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
Mowgli -
1.
The Jungle Folk
Mowgli -
2.
Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli
Mowgli
- Tony R. Rose
- Michael DeLisa
- Merlin Haas
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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