Kaänga Comics #16

(Summer 1953)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Kaänga / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Frank Riddell]

Pencils

Maurice Whitman

Inks

Maurice Whitman

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Since the wane of vultures' moon, no news of the Blanton-Becker expedition...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Kaänga; Ann Mason; Basoras (African tribe); Captain Rawls; Chianzas (African tribe); Becker; M'bala; Mart Harley

Synopsis

Captain Rawls of the colonial police and asks Kaänga to assist him in locating the Blanton-Becker party. During their pursuit, they are attacked by a mammoth.

Keywords

Abo-dar; Banpelungu Mountains; lions; mammoths; masks

Indexer Notes

Part 1 of a 2-part story

The Fifth Ace (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

A. J. Castanon

Letters

typeset

The Cave-Man Valley (Table of Contents: 4)

Kaänga / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Maurice Whitman

Inks

Maurice Whitman

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

jungle

Characters

Kaänga; Basoras (African tribe); Captain Rawls; Ann Mason; Doctor Blanton; Molly Blanton

Synopsis

Kaänga and his party enter a volcano through an entrance blasted by Becker. They discover that the jungle inside the volcano is home to many prehistoric monsters. They also find that Becker had imprisoned his partners, the Blanton's, and was looting the golden idols of the jungle. They stop Becker's looting and rescue the Blanton party.

Keywords

caves; gold; idols; lizardons; pythons; unisaurs

Indexer Notes

Part 2 of a 2-part story. Pagination continues through this sequence from the first part of the story.

The Men with Tails (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

jungle

Characters

Jim Fraser; Doctor Thorne; tailed men; Watussis (African tribe)

Synopsis

An anthropological expedition discovers a human tribe with tails.

Keywords

anthropology; burned at the stake; dancing; Ethiopia; missing links; t'sava vines

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Sheena / comic story / 9.67 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Robert Webb

Inks

Robert Webb

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It all began with a distant wail -- the whistle-voice of the Golden Goose...

Genre

jungle

Reprints

• from Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #76 (June 1945) [cut to 9.5 pages, with completely re-written text and dialogue]

Indexer Notes

The art from the original 12 page story has been cut up and re-arranged with all-new text and dialog.