(Winter 1952-1953)
Fiction House,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-12-05
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Glen-Kel Pub. Co.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- J. F. Byrne
Issue Notes
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
in 
[no title indexed]
Wambi / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If you had as many ears and Tawn and I had as many tongues...
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
King of the Congo / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Again and again the mysterious raiders had struck...
- Genre
- aviation
- Characters
- "Clipper" King; "Jingo" Stewart; Zanga (villain); Trader Mason (villain)
- Synopsis
- King interrupts Mason's raid on an ivory caravan.
- Reprints
-
from Rangers Comics (Fiction House, 1942 series) #52 (April 1950) [truncated and edited] -
in Jungle Comics (H. John Edwards, 1950 ? series) #31
-
Indexer Notes
My copy is missing first page; title taken from original story. In this issue, the first line may be different.
Quest of Moor Hill Country
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Canabi (dies); Situ (dies); Bohawi (villain, dies); Awemba (dies)
- Synopsis
- The witch doctor tells his son where to find the treasure of the Moon Hills, but warns him that retrieving it requires the trust of a good friend.
- Keywords
- Mazumi
Indexer Notes
The title is a mistake, as the text refers several times to the Moon Hills (not Moor).
Jungle Terror Tests
Wambi / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Wambi; Khobar; Amaru
- Synopsis
- The vizier brings two cousins to the jungle to test them. The winner becomes the new ruler.
- Reprints
- from Rangers Comics (Fiction House, 1942 series) #50 (December 1949) [The Wambi story has identical art with different script and coloring, the same plot, and the lead character renamed (from Jan of the Jungle to Wambi, Jungle Boy). ]
- in Climax Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1962 ? series) #2 ([1963])
-
Indexer Notes
Vizier is misspelled throughout as vizer.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Wambi -
1.
["If you had as many ears and Tawn and I had as many tongues..."]
Wambi -
2.
King of the Monkeys
Wambi -
3.
["Again and again the mysterious raiders had struck..."]
King of the Congo -
4.
Quest of Moor Hill Country
-
5.
Jungle Terror Tests
Wambi
This issue was modified by, among others
- Darci
- Pat Conolly
- Daniel Martinez
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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