Jungle Comics
#104
(August 1948)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Glen-Kel Pub. Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines 52 Pages
- Editing
- J.F. Byrne (managing editor)(credited); John C. Mitchell (credited)
[no title indexed]
Kaänga / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Frank Riddell
- Pencils
- John Celardo (signed)
- Inks
- John Celardo (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 'Beware!' said Kaänga, lord of the jungle, to his mate...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann Mason; N'geeso; Curt Latimer; Krupp; L'noka; Tom Hamilton
- Synopsis
- The overseers of the Hamiltons' mine discover that a vein previously thought to be worked out still has yields. They plot to kill the Hamiltons and claim the mine for themselves. They are foiled by Kaänga.
- Reprints
-
in Kaänga Comics (Fiction House, 1949 series) #15 (Spring 1953) [Edited down from 10 pages to 9.67 pages. Completely re-written.] which is reprinted -
in Kaänga Comics (H. John Edwards, 1950 ? series) #30 ([1952] ?) - in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #46 (2004)
-
in Kaänga (ilovecomics, 2018 series) #11 (2021)
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- Keywords
- Denga Trading Post; hunting cheetahs; Marsden; saddle zebras; T'zonda Mines; whips; wild dogs
[no title indexed]
Simba, King of Beasts / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- These are the rascals of the jungle -- hoodlums all --
- Genre
- animal; jungle
- Characters
- Simba; N'mogo
- Synopsis
- Monkeys loot a steamboat of traders' gold and use throw the gold at thieves who would kill Simba, causing them to flee.
- Keywords
- crocodiles; gold; monkeys; steamboats
[no title indexed]
Captain Terry Thunder / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Patrolling and keeping peace in a vast jungle domain isn't an easy task...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Terry Thunder; Keeto; Barker; Belle
- Synopsis
- Terry is transporting prisoners down river when an animal trader, working in concert with the prisoners, attacks Terry's boat. Terry is captured but Keeto leads the lancers to his rescue. The trader is killed by one of his captured leopards.
- Keywords
- dynamite; hunting cheetahs; Kafka (African town); leopards; steamboats
[no title indexed]
Jungle Facts / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The arnee, or water buffalo, like all bovine animals is gregarious.
- Genre
- non-fiction; jungle; nature
- Synopsis
- Brief natural histories of some dangerous African animals.
- Keywords
- Cape buffalo; cheetahs; elephants; gorillas; hippopotamuses; lions; rhinoceroses
[no title indexed]
Wambi, The Jungle Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Roy L. Smith
- Pencils
- Frank Doyle (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Doyle (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 'Beware, Wambi. Trouble, violence and death treks in the safari of man!'... [sic]
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Wambi; Tawn; Ligo (lynx); Ogg
- Synopsis
- A pair of bird hunters are attacked by lynx. Wambi, Tawn, and Ogg drive the lynx away. Tawn eats some of the food abandoned by the hunters and becomes mad. Wambi and Tawn hurry to Ogg's ape tribe and warns them that Ogg is not in his right mind. Young apes through Ogg into the river but he is rescued by Wambi and Tawn. Later, the effects of the food wear off.
- Keywords
- kola herbs
Mamba! Witch of Death!
Tabu / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Mack]
- Pencils
- Maurice Whitman (signed)
- Inks
- Maurice Whitman (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Tabu; Momba; Suwallis (African tribe); Carl Thurston; Tonko; Gail Thurston; Jala (snake)
- Synopsis
- The ghost of murdered Carl Thurston, gold miner, asks Tabu to avenger him against his wife and her snake charmer partner. Tabu complies and the wife and snake charmer fall from a cliff to their deaths.
- Keywords
- cremation; funerary customs; gold; human skeleton; Mist Swamps of Mogar; poisoning; snake charmers; witches
I'll Kill You, Camilla!
Camilla / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Victor Ibsen (house name)
- Pencils
- Matt Baker
- Inks
- Ray Osrin ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Camilla; Ashcraft; Dr. Wertham; Fang (dog); K'bilo; Sylvia; Clyde; lion cultists
- Synopsis
- His mind destroyed by jungle fever, Dr. Wertham turns on his colleagues and, with the aid of a lion cultist, attempts to make off with all the gold the group had looted from the Zulu Tombs. Thwarted by Camilla, he seeks revenge and is killed by a black leopard.
- Reprints
- in Jungle Girls (AC, 1989 series) #9 (1992)
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- Keywords
- Congo River; dynamite; jungle fever; leopards; lion cults; saddle zebras; steamboats; the Zulu Tombs
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Kaänga -
1.
["'Beware!' said Kaänga, lord of the jungle, to his mate..."]
Kaänga -
2.
["These are the rascals of the jungle -- hoodlums all --"]
Simba, King of Beasts -
3.
["Patrolling and keeping peace in a vast jungle domain isn't an easy task..."]
Captain Terry Thunder -
4.
["The arnee, or water buffalo, like all bovine animals is gregarious."]
Jungle Facts -
5.
["'Beware, Wambi. Trouble, violence and death treks in the safari of man!'... [sic]"]
Wambi, The Jungle Boy -
6.
Congo Justice
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7.
Mamba! Witch of Death!
Tabu -
8.
I'll Kill You, Camilla!
Camilla
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Katy Hayhurst
- Michael Hoskin
- Donald Dale Milne
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
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