Jungle Comics #46

(October 1943)

Blood Raiders of the Tree-Trail (Table of Contents: 1)

Kaänga / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Frank Riddell]

Pencils

Howard Larsen ?; Rafael Astarita (p 1); ?

Inks

Howard Larsen ?; Rafael Astarita ? (p 1); ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

jungle

Characters

Kaänga; Ann Mason; Senegalese; Todd; M'boja; Zugoabs (African tribe); Tarahs (African tribe); Roeder; Norton

Synopsis

Con artists "salt" Juju Mountain with diamonds, setting off a series of bloody tribal wars.

Keywords

diamonds; goldsmiths; gorillas; hunting leopards; Juju Mountain; swindling; witch doctors

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

first line: "When human blood is figured in the cost, diamonds rank highest among Africa's treasures."

Although this art is traditionally credited to Astarita, his presence beyond the splash page is vague and debatable, at best. The art in the second half of the story is crude and distorted and is by an unknown hand or hands.

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

Simba / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Ed Hunt]

Pencils

Richard Case

Inks

Richard Case

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The jungle echoes war-lust...vicious, primitive total war...

Genre

animal; jungle

Characters

Simba; Tiku (monkey); M'glo (elephant)

Synopsis

Simba rescues Tiku from a crocodile and then battle the elephant, M'Glo, for the kingship of the jungle.

Reprints

• in Seriemagasinet (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1951 series) #5/1955 (mai 1955) [edited]

Keywords

crocodiles

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Saul Rosen

Inks

Saul Rosen

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Watuan natives observe an ancient ritual in choosing a new king...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Watus (African tribe); Banto; Raimu

Synopsis

Tabu exposes an ambitious witch doctor as a fraud.

Keywords

leopards; moon gods; poison; stereotyping of African natives; temples; Throne of Death; witch doctors

Murder! (Table of Contents: 4)

Wambi, The Jungle Boy / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Roy L. Smith]

Pencils

Henry Kiefer

Inks

Henry Kiefer

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

jungle

Characters

Tawn; Wambi; Ogg; Ronald Barton; Mr. Barton

Synopsis

Seeking revenge for her husband's imprisonment, little Ronald's nurse tries to murder him and make it look like an accident. Wambi rescues the boy and the woman is killed by a water buffalo.

Keywords

crocodiles; pythons; water buffalo

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Fantomah, Daughter of the Pharoahs / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

? [as W. B. Hovious]

Pencils

George Appel

Inks

George Appel

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The warriors of Vixa attack Khefra.

Genre

jungle

Characters

Fantomah; Raa; Fury; Horus

Synopsis

Khefran inventor, Raa, with Fantomah's blessing, takes his failed invention, artificial wings, to the besieging Vixan army. When they use them in their attack on Khefra, the wings fail and the Khefran army is victorious.

Keywords

artificial wings; elephants; Vixa (African kingdom)

Juju Medicine (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Garold S. Hatfield]

Genre

jungle

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Captain Terry Thunder / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Pierre La Rue]

Pencils

Robert Webb; Arnold Hicks

Inks

Arnold Hicks ?; Jack Kamen ?; ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

With the vapors of death swirling from a heinous graven mouth...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Leila; Kaan; Terry Thunder; Red Rogue; Anderson the Arab

Synopsis

Native chief Kaan, hoping that his daughter never marries so that he has no rivals for his kingship, has rigged an idle to give off poison vapors, and every suitor is required to approach the idol. Kaan's daughter, Leila, discovers the poisoning mechanism and dismantles it, but not before it kills Kaan.

Keywords

black fever; Idol of Death

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Camilla / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Tuska

Inks

George Tuska

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

One thousand pieces of gold...Two!..Three!..Higher and higher the bidding mounts...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Camilla; Trader Ali; Laeefa; Sarra; Sika

Synopsis

Camilla is drugged by a witch doctor and sold to an Arab slaver.

Keywords

drugs; salve auctions; slaves; stereotyping of African natives; stereotyping of Arabs; tigers; whips; witch doctors