Jungle Comics #80

(August 1946)

Salome of the Devil-Cats (Table of Contents: 1)

Kaänga / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Riddell (credited)

Pencils

John Celardo (signed)

Inks

John Celardo (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It was a blind jungle lord that traveled to the forbidden Mist Lands...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Salome (introduction, villain, death); the Rajah's minister (introduction, villain, death); The Rajah (introduction); Kaänga; Marmo (elephant); T'guans (African tribe); Ann Mason; N'geeso

Synopsis

Salome, a witch, convinces the rajah that she can make him young again. Kaänga determines to expose her as a fraud. Ann exposes Salome as a fraud and is taken prisoner. Salome prooceeds to torture her. Kaänga arrives, rescues Ann, and kills Salome.

Reprints

• in Kaänga Comics (Fiction House, 1949 series) #10 (Winter 1951-1952) [heavily modified]
which is reprinted
• in Kaänga (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8 ([1958]) [modified version]
• in Kaänga (ilovecomics, 2018 series) #1 (Dezember 2017)

Keywords

blindness; bondage; fountain of youth; leopards; mandrills; steamboats; torture; waterfalls

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

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

Simba, King of Beasts / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Hunt (house name)

Pencils

August Froehlich (signed)

Inks

August Froehlich (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Simba, the mighty jungle monarch, hears the sound of nearby conflict...

Genre

animal; jungle

Characters

Simba

Synopsis

Simba rescues a jerboa from a gorilla. Later, when Simba, wounded by a pygmy dart, is battling a leopard for the jungle kingship, the jerboa returns the favor and pulls the dart from Simba, enabling him to defeat the leopard.

Keywords

blow guns; gorillas; jerboas; leopards; medicinal herbs; vultures

Indexer Notes

Froelich's signature is in the final panel.

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

Tabu / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Mack]

Pencils

Richard Case

Inks

Richard Case

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The jungle was swept by a wave of terror...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Morgan (introduction, villain, death); Lil (introduction, villain, death); Kobali (introduction); M'Bala (introduction); the Kalembus (introduction); Tabu; Kalembus (African tribe)

Synopsis

A pair of treasure hunters raid the village of the Kalembus and kill the king. Tabu places a curse on them and both die before they can get out of the jungle

Keywords

bondage; burning at the stake; graves; idols; lions; torture

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

Jungle Facts / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mike Peppe ?

Inks

Mike Peppe ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Throughout the jungle, the witch doctor is acknowledged as the most powerful member of the tribe .

Genre

non-fiction; jungle

Synopsis

A description of the responsibilities and practices of a witch doctor.

Keywords

stereotyping of African natives; witch doctors

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

Wambi, The Jungle Boy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Roy L. Smith (credited)

Pencils

Gus Schrotter ?

Inks

Jack Kamen ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A blood-maddened despot rises in the jungle to spread a reign of carnage...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Professor Malcolm (introduction, villain); Wambi; Ogg; Tawn; Neru (Cape buffalo); Satanic (tiger)

Synopsis

A professor visiting the jungle goes mad, believing himself the king of the jungle with power over life and death for all inhabitants. Wambi and his jungle friends manage to rescue the professor just before he is killed by the villagers. The professor shortly recovers his senses.

Keywords

dynamite; stereotyping of African natives; tigers

Curse of the Panther Queen (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Frank Riddell]

Letters

typeset

Genre

jungle

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

Captain Terry Thunder / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Pierre La Rue

Pencils

Bob Lubbers (signed)

Inks

Bob Lubbers (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Look upon the map.

Genre

adventure

Characters

Konga (introduction, villain); Konga's gang (introduction, villains); Terry Thunder; Keeto; Wadai

Synopsis

Konga, the woman leader of a gang of criminal traders, breaks into the post in order to free her gang.

Keywords

binoculars; disguises; flare guns; jewels; masks; steamboats

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

African Wild Life / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Evans ?

Inks

George Evans ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The baby elephant's training starts when he learns that frequent baths keep him clean, cool, and free of bothersome insects.

Genre

non-fiction; jungle; nature

Synopsis

A brief description of the lessons that elephants must learn as they mature.

Keywords

elephants

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

Camilla / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Victor Ibsen (credited) (house name)

Pencils

Fran Hopper (signed)

Inks

Fran Hopper; Ruth Atkinson ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Through the great bronze door Camilla went...

Genre

jungle

Characters

The Devils (introduction, villain); Camilla; T'nargs (African tribe)

Synopsis

Camilla opens the bronze door in her temple and finds an underground civilization, called the Devils. The Devils have a prisoner, a village woman, that they intend to have killed by wild animals. Camilla rescues the woman and see to it that the Devils' leader is killed by a leopard.

Reprints

• in Lurid Little Nightmare Makers (Boardman Books, 2014 series) #6 (May 2016)

Keywords

bats; giant lizards; leopards; net traps; underground civilizations

Indexer Notes

The Devils are an underground tribe who with Latin (and Volta) syntax speak.