Kaänga Comics
#14
(Winter 1952)
Fiction House,
1949 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-10-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Glen-Kel Pub. Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- Jack Byrne (credited as J. F. Byrne) (managing editor); S. M. Iger (credited as Jerry Iger) (art director)
Issue Notes
Published in Winter 1952-3.
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals 1952, page 133
Comic's title is Kaänga Jungle King on the cover and in the indicia
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals 1952, page 133
Comic's title is Kaänga Jungle King on the cover and in the indicia
Beware the Gorilla-Master!
Kaänga / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann Mason; Zulu
- Reprints
-
in Jungle Comics (H. John Edwards, 1950 ? series) #30 ([1952] ?) -
in Kaänga (Superior, 1952 series) #14 ([circa Spring 1953])
-
- Keywords
- bondage; crocodiles
Indexer Notes
The cover illustration & title don't match any of the comic's stories.
Other title on cover: Slave Galley of the Lost Nile
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
House ad for 6 Fiction House comics
[no title indexed]
Kaänga / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Zahinda, the legless, swore by his rhino lash and his spinning sticks...
- Genre
- jungle
- Reprints
-
from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #87 (March 1947) [completely rewritten but with the same artwork] - in Kaänga Comics (H. John Edwards, 1950 ? series) #27 ([1952] ?)
- in Klassik Komix Men of Action (Mini-Komix, 2015 series) ([August 21, 2015])
-
Slave Galley of the Lost Nile
Kaänga / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sometime in the dim past, Kaänga had ventured into those mysterious lands beyond the Juju Mists.
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann Mason; Capt. Kasna (Introduction, Death); Princess Valla (ruler of lands beyond the JuJu Mists)
- Reprints
- from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #91 (July 1947) [Edited down from 11 pages to 8. Largely re-written and many panel redrawn.]
-
Indexer Notes
Princess Valla previously appeared in "Beyond the Ju-Ju Mists" in Jungle Comics #88 (July 1947).
Title from cover.
The Condor
Stamp Page / text article / 0.75 page
- Script
- Sidney Elias (credited as Sidney M. Elias)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
[no title indexed]
King of the Congo / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Kurt Caesar (signed as Jack Away)
- Inks
- Kurt Caesar (signed as Jack Away)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The roar of the lion, trapped in his lair -- the sceams of the frightened native-bearers...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- King; Jingo (King's boy pal); Gloria (villain): Rex (villain); Dr. Sidney; Chief Urgunda
- Reprints
in Beware the Gorilla-Master
Kaänga / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I will make beasts human! And here in the jungle, no one will ever stop me!
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann; Dr. Roho (villain; Intro, Death); John Rice (Intro, Death; brain transferred into a gorilla's body)
- Reprints
- from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #85 (January 1947) [Edited from 10 pages down to 6. Largely re-written with some re-drawing.]
- in Kaänga Comics (H. John Edwards, 1950 ? series) #28
-
Indexer Notes
Title from cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Beware the Gorilla-Master!
Kaänga -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
["Zahinda, the legless, swore by his rhino lash and his spinning sticks..."]
Kaänga -
3.
Slave Galley of the Lost Nile
Kaänga -
4.
The Condor
Stamp Page -
5.
["The roar of the lion, trapped in his lair -- the sceams of the frightened native-bearers..."]
King of the Congo -
6.
The Mark of the Python
-
7.
Beware the Gorilla-Master
Kaänga
This issue was modified by, among others
- Pat Conolly
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Len Wolinsky
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