Congo Bill
#6
(June-July 1955)
DC,
1954 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1955-04-19
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Comics Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Bombo-- the Rage of London!
Congo Bill with Janu the Jungle Boy / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Congo Bill; Janu; Bombo; Trent
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Shorty / comic story / 0.67 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Shorty. Any luck hunting out in the jungle?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Shorty
- Reprints
-
in Strange Adventures (K. G. Murray, 1954 series) #30 ([March 1957]) -
in Superman Annual (Atlas Publishing, 1951 series) #1958 (1958-9) -
in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #150 (January 1962)
-
The Jungle Trolley Car!
Congo Bill with Janu the Jungle Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Congo Bill; Janu; Mr. Cranshaw; Chota (cameo)
[no title indexed]
Professor Eureka / comic story / 0.67 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I made the long journey here to obtain rare specimens of wild flowers.
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Professor Eureka
- Reprints
- in Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #171 (December 1964)
-
[no title indexed]
Fearless Fosdick; Wildroot Cream Oil / advertisement / 0.25 page
- Genre
- satire-parody
The World's Greatest Hunters
comic story / 4 pages
- Characters
- Suku
- Reprints
- in My Greatest Adventure (K. G. Murray, 1955 series) #3 ([June 1955])
-
Indexer Notes
Not a Congo Bill story
[no title indexed]
Batman; Mystery in Space / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- To the boys and girls of America...
Gorilla City!
Congo Bill with Janu the Jungle Boy / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Congo Bill; Janu
- Synopsis
- Congo Bill and Janu are taken as captives to a village populated by intelligent gorillas, but discover they are not what they appear.
- Reprints
- in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1990 series) (1990 [January 1991])
- in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1992 series) ([May] 1992)
-
Indexer Notes
The art for the splash panel and the cover is the same.
Buzzy Says: "There May Be a Career in Health for You!"
Buzzy / public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- advocacy; teen
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Gorilla City!
Congo Bill with Janu the Jungle Boy -
1.
Draw Me!
Art Instruction, Inc. -
2.
Bombo-- the Rage of London!
Congo Bill with Janu the Jungle Boy -
3.
["Hi, Shorty. Any luck hunting out in the jungle?"]
Shorty -
4.
[no title indexed]
Daisy Manufacturing Company -
5.
The Jungle Trolley Car!
Congo Bill with Janu the Jungle Boy -
6.
["I made the long journey here to obtain rare specimens of wild flowers."]
Professor Eureka -
7.
[no title indexed]
Fearless Fosdick; Wildroot Cream Oil -
8.
The World's Greatest Hunters
-
9.
Unseen Dangers of the Jungle
-
10.
["To the boys and girls of America..."]
Batman; Mystery in Space -
11.
Gorilla City!
Congo Bill with Janu the Jungle Boy -
12.
[no title indexed]
Anra, Inc. -
13.
Buzzy Says: "There May Be a Career in Health for You!"
Buzzy -
14.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Mike Nielsen
- Allen Ross
- Jim Van Dore
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