Jungle Comics #68

(August 1945)

What Is a Cameleopard? (Table of Contents: 1)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Bert Foster

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction; nature

Indexer Notes

Appears on inside front and inside back covers.

Satan's Safari (Table of Contents: 2)

Kaänga / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Riddell (credited)

Pencils

Ruben Moreira (signed as Rubi Moore)

Inks

Ruben Moreira (signed as Rubi Moore)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There was a plague in the green Zamboko Valley...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Kaänga; Ann Mason; Lance Billings; T'kanis (African tribe); Mark Billings

Synopsis

A white man-led leopard cult kidnaps Ann for sacrifice.

Reprints

• in Kaänga Comics (Fiction House, 1949 series) #3 (Spring 1950) [as "Panther Lord"]

Keywords

animal hides; human sacrifice; human skeletons; leopard cults; leopards; lions; pythons; rope bridges; spectacles; tiger traps; treehouses; wagons

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

first line: "There was a plague in the green Zamboko Valley..."

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

Tabu / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Mack]

Pencils

Howard Larsen (signed)

Inks

Howard Larsen (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tabu was a lone dweller in the mist-shrouded jungle...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Tabu; Martha; Dick

Synopsis

A girl, raised by wolves, is leading her wolf pack on murderous raids against settlers and villagers. Tabu confronts her and turns her into an oryx that is killed and eaten by the wolves.

Keywords

flooding; lions; oryxes; wagons; wolves

The Giraffe and the Okapi (Table of Contents: 4)

Jungle Facts / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Fran Hopper (signed)

Inks

Fran Hopper (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; nature

Synopsis

A brief natural history of the giraffe and the okapi.

Keywords

giraffes; okapis

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

Simba, King of Beasts / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Hunt (house name)

Pencils

Richard Case

Inks

Richard Case

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

What shall be lawful prey?

Genre

animal; jungle

Characters

Simba

Synopsis

Simba rescues a baby gazelle from attacks by a leopard and a hawk.

Reprints

• in Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #128 (August 1950) [edited down from 5 pages with some re-writing]

Keywords

gazelles; hawks; leopards

Indexer Notes

Next appears in issue #74.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Camilla / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Victor Ibsen (credited) (house name)

Pencils

Marcia Snyder

Inks

Marcia Snyder

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Many of the little people had disappeared --

Genre

jungle

Characters

Camilla; Fang (dog); Kunda; Shadow (leopard)

Synopsis

A white renegade leads a band of slavers who are taking pygmy girls while disguised as gorillas.

Reprints

• in Kaänga Comics (Fiction House, 1949 series) #10 (Winter 1951-1952) [Edited from 8 pages to 6. Heavily re-written with Camilla's name changed to Fantomah. Some redrawn panels.]
which is reprinted
• in Kaänga (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8 ([1958]) [in this form]

Keywords

castles; disguises; gorillas; pygmies; slavers; turtle shells