Jungle Comics
#44
(August 1943)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-06-18
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Glen-Kel Pub. Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- John Mitchell (credited as John C. Mitchell) (editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 3.
Monster of the Boiling Pool
Kaänga / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann Mason
- Reprints
-
in Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #88 (April 1947) [flipped from original and Kaänga's face and hair totally redrawn.] which is reprinted
-
- Keywords
- crocodiles; underwater
in 
Monster of the Boiling Pool
Kaänga / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A strange quest into treacherous jungles finds Kaänga caught amid the fury of tribal war.
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann Mason; N'geeso; Baboon Men; Roog
- Synopsis
- After N'geeso suffers a crocodile bite, Kaänga and Ann go to the country of the Baboon Men for a medicinal moss. They learn that headhunters have targeted the Baboon Men. Kaänga tricks the headhunters into running into a hot spring where many of them drown.
- Keywords
- baboons; crocodiles; disguises; headhunters; horns; hot springs; leopards; medicinal plants; pythons; treehouses
Indexer Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
[no title indexed]
Simba, King of Beasts / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Ed Hunt (house name)
- Pencils
- Bob Webb
- Inks
- Ernie Hart ?; Jack Kamen ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A new name of fear whispers through the jungle...
- Genre
- animal; jungle
- Characters
- Simba; Tondar (white rhinoceros)
- Synopsis
- Simba's role as king of the jungle is challenged by a white rhinoceros.
- Keywords
- elephants; gorillas; rhinoceroses; water buffalo
[no title indexed]
Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as "Mack"]
- Pencils
- Saul Rosen
- Inks
- Saul Rosen
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- An old freighter docks an an African coastal town.
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Tabu; Melini; Mengos (African tribe); Migi
- Synopsis
- Melini uses trickery to convince the Mengos that he has magic power. Tabu does a stage trick of his own and exposes Melini.
- Keywords
- disguises; elephants; gorilla gods; gorillas; stage magic; stereotyping of African-Americans
Elephant's Graveyard!
Wambi, The Jungle Boy / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Roy L. Smith (credited)
- Pencils
- Henry Kiefer
- Inks
- Henry Kiefer
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Wambi; Tawn; Zingos (African tribe); Dr. Burman; Ogg
- Synopsis
- Tawn, wounded by ivory hunters, makes his way to the elephants' graveyard, followed by Wambi and Dr. Burman. Dr. Burman removes the bullet from Tawn and he makes a quick recovery.
- Keywords
- animal skeletons; bondage; caves; elephants' graveyard; helgrop gas; ivory; ivory hunters; jungle fever; sulphur springs; vultures; White Moon Military Post
[no title indexed]
Fantomah / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It is distasteful to me, but I must sentence you to life at hard labor at clay banks.
- Genre
- jungle; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Fantomah; Horus; Fury; Lupa (leopard)
- Synopsis
- A convict's wife, devastated by his life sentence, leads a slave revolt against Fantomah.
- Keywords
- boars; hunting leopards; slaves; Tomb of Amun-el-bob
[no title indexed]
Captain Terry Thunder / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Remote, mysterious, and uncivilized as the jungle may be...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Terry Thunder; Anderson the Arab; Kismet; Vincent; Jacques; Schlang
- Synopsis
- Terry and the gang free a Free French jungle outpost from the Nazis.
- Keywords
- automobiles; Bayo Jungle; executions; firing squads; Free French; Nazis; sandstorms; World War II
[no title indexed]
Camilla / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Victor Ibsen (credited) (house name)
- Pencils
- George Tuska; Art Saaf ?
- Inks
- Art Saaf ?; ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Beneath the Broadway bright lights a devil's plot was hatched...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Camilla; Marcia Blake; Joel Webb; Trader Davis; Toma; Fin; Steven Dane; Camilla Jordan Dane
- Synopsis
- A con man plans a trip to Africa; on his return he planned to present an actress as the long lost daughter of Steven and Camilla Jordan Dane so that she could "inherit" the Jordan fortune. But the plot runs afoul of Camilla, who remains ignorant of her origins.
- Keywords
- elephants; Gladeport (African city); gorillas; lions; rhinoceroses; telegrams; whips; Zulu Star (ship)
Indexer Notes
The Saaf credit is from Hames Ware.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Monster of the Boiling Pool
Kaänga -
1.
Monster of the Boiling Pool
Kaänga -
2.
["A new name of fear whispers through the jungle..."]
Simba, King of Beasts -
3.
["An old freighter docks an an African coastal town."]
Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle -
4.
Elephant's Graveyard!
Wambi, The Jungle Boy -
5.
["It is distasteful to me, but I must sentence you to life at hard labor at clay banks."]
Fantomah -
6.
Lion Bait
-
7.
["Remote, mysterious, and uncivilized as the jungle may be..."]
Captain Terry Thunder -
8.
["Beneath the Broadway bright lights a devil's plot was hatched..."]
Camilla
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Donald Dale Milne
- Tony R. Rose
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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