Jungle Comics #73

(January 1946)

Spoor of the Moon Hill Treasure (Table of Contents: 1)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Riddell (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

jungle

Indexer Notes

Story appears on inside front and inside back covers.

The Killers of M'omba Raj (Table of Contents: 2)

Kaänga / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Riddell

Pencils

Ruben Moreira

Inks

Ruben Moreira

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Out of the dread, murky past she came...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Princess Nilo (villain, introduction); Dr. Marr; Kaänga; Ann Mason; N'geeso

Synopsis

Dr. Marr's scientific expedition captures a white ape. Nilo, riding from the land of the Lake of Mists attacks the safari in order to free the ape, which is sacred to her people. They also take Dr. Marr. Kaänga and Ann pursue them. Ann is captured, but Kaänga frees both her and Dr. Marr. They destroy Nilo's castle with dynamite.

Reprints

• in Kaänga Comics (Fiction House, 1949 series) #3 (Spring 1950)

Keywords

apatosaurus-like carnivores; ape worship; castles; dynamite; human sacrifice; idols; mastodons; saddle zebras; the Lake of Mists; white apes

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

Anthony Durrant notes (2/7/2007) that the reprint has dialog that is different from this original version.

The "sacred white ape" is colored brown throughout.

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

Wambi, The Jungle Boy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Roy L. Smith]

Pencils

Iger Shop

Inks

Iger Shop

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Terror stalks the jungle -- far and wide men die...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Wambi; Tawn; Ogg; Dwandas (African tribe); Lantu; Rina (rhinoceros); Leo (leopard)

Synopsis

Wambi discovers a witch doctor poisoning a village's water supply in order to drive the villagers out.

Keywords

jungle fevers; medicinal herbs; witch doctors

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

Captain Terry Thunder / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Pierre La Rue]

Pencils

Iger Shop

Inks

Iger Shop

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I'm worried, Keeto --

Genre

jungle

Characters

Terry Thunder; Keeto; Marmo; Naru; Jagar (horse); Lieutenant Jamison; Kunda

Synopsis

Marmo, his daughter Naru, and his witch doctor Kunda, frame the local pygmies for Naru's and Terry's faked deaths in order to take the pygmies gold. Terry exposes their fraud.

Keywords

bathing; blowguns; gold; pygmies; soporific drugs; witch doctors

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

Tabu / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Mack]

Pencils

Howard Larsen

Inks

Howard Larsen

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There was death in that lonely temple...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Princess Tauna (villain, introduction, death); Tabu; Claw (leopard); Fang (leopard)

Synopsis

Tauna attempts to kill the guardian of the serpent shrine in order to assume his post. Tabu shows her an illusion of a jeweled belt -- in reality, a python.

Keywords

disguises; masks; poison; pythons; snake worship

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

Camilla / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Victor Ibsen (house name)

Pencils

Fran Hopper (signed)

Inks

Fran Hopper (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

...her ways are jungle ways...abandoned joy one moment...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Camilla; Fang (dog); Ed; Al

Synopsis

Two ivory hunters make their way to the elephants' graveyard. Camilla uses Fang to create and elephant stampede, killing one of the hunters and leading the other to promise to change his ways.

Keywords

crocodiles; elephants; elephants' graveyard; ivory