Jungle Comics
#134
(February 1951)
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 (editor)(credited); Jerry Iger (Art Director)(credited)
in 
[no title indexed]
Kaänga / comic story / 14 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Commissioner's Office To: Kaänga...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann Mason; M'kubwa; Blake; Ellen Blake; Bull; Brad Shark; Zulu
- Synopsis
- Thieves pursue a steamboat captain and a cache of diamonds. Kaänga helps the captain's daughter locate the captain and defeat the thieves.
- Keywords
- apes; bondage; crocodiles; diamonds; lions; River Queen (steamboat); rope bridges; whips; wild dogs
[no title indexed]
Captain Terry Thunder / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 'Smash the grip of the slavers!'
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Terry Thunder; El Dakar; Miss Thompson
- Synopsis
- Terry captures the brother of slaver El Dakar. He then puts on a exhibition of his camel corps, hoping to draw El Dakar to the confusion at the fort. He is successful and captures El Dakar.
- Keywords
- motion picture cameras; slavers; stereotyping of Arabs
[no title indexed]
Wambi / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Many were the tales told by tribal story tellers concerning Wambi, the jungle boy.
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Wambi; Tawn; Ogg; Crekko (jackal); Frenchie; Ward; Maggo (macaw); Rhyncho (rhinoceros)
- Synopsis
- Prospectors occupy the waterhole in Wambi's jungle. Wambi, demanding their departure, is captured. The prospectors are then routed from the waterhole by a pair of rhinoceroses that believe the prospectors have threatened their young.
- Reprints
-
in Diamond Adventure Comic (Atlas Publishing, 1960 series) #18 (February 1962)
-
- Keywords
- gold; rhinoceroses
[no title indexed]
The Big Cage / text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sap, Doob, and Dumbell were there dumbest animals I have ever handled.
- Genre
- non-fiction
[no title indexed]
Tabu / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A creaking cart slowly lumbers over familiar trails --
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Tabu; Karen Cramer; Karl Cramer; Janice Cramer; un-named goddess; Ted (villain); Sandy (villain); Natubis (African tribe)
- Synopsis
- Tabu helps a couple recover their kidnapped daughter, who is being used by some crimnals to convince the Natubi tribe that she is the "White Maiden" their legends tell will one day reappear.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- saddle zebras
in [no title indexed]
Camilla / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Months had passed since Chief Karemo of the superstitious Wasulis banned mystic rites and ancient ceremonies...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Camilla; Liz Borden; Fang (dog); Carter; Skipper Borden; Chuck Borden; Wasulis (African tribe); the bird god [B'gara]; Stan Steele; Cain; Karemo; N'kili
- Synopsis
- Plotting to take over the Borden trading post, Steele and Cain kidnap young Skipper Borden. At the same time, the Wasulis' witch doctor schemes to become chief by using trained eagles to cow the tribe. Camilla exposes the witch doctor as a greedy fraud and loses the eagles on the kidnappers to recover the boy.
- Keywords
- bird worship; crocodiles; eagles; stereotyping of African natives
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Black Avengers of Kaffir Pass
Kaänga -
1.
["Commissioner's Office To: Kaänga..."]
Kaänga -
2.
["'Smash the grip of the slavers!'"]
Captain Terry Thunder -
3.
["Many were the tales told by tribal story tellers concerning Wambi, the jungle boy."]
Wambi -
4.
["Sap, Doob, and Dumbell were there dumbest animals I have ever handled."]
The Big Cage -
5.
["A creaking cart slowly lumbers over familiar trails --"]
Tabu -
6.
["Months had passed since Chief Karemo of the superstitious Wasulis banned mystic rites and ancient ceremonies..."]
Camilla
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Katy Hayhurst
- Donald Dale Milne
- Tony R. Rose
- Len Wolinsky
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