Jungle Comics #50

(February 1944)

Juggernaut of the Bush (Table of Contents: 1)

Kaänga / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Riddell (credited)

Pencils

Jim Mooney (signed)

Inks

Jim Mooney (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Deep in the jungle...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Kaänga; Ann Mason; Alicia Brown; leopard cultists; Katuas (African tribe); N'geeso; Bantus (African tribe); Dorga

Synopsis

In order to win a horse race, Dorga, chief of the Katuas, steals a white woman's horse and kidnaps Ann to ride it.

Keywords

blow guns; horse races; horses; leopard cults; lions; rope bridge

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

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

Simba, King of Beasts / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Hunt

Pencils

R. Louis Golden ?; ?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Simba's jungle is again invaded when two richly-clad Arabs, envoys of the Sheik of Shalah arrive to hunt ivory...

Genre

animal; jungle

Characters

Simba; Abu Landhu; Tiku (monkey); Abdah

Synopsis

A pair of Arabs enter Simba's jungle, looking for the elephants' graveyard. They shoot and wound a mother elephant and then track her to the graveyard. Meanwhile, Simba protects the soon-to-be orphaned calf. Then he leads an elephant herd to the graveyard where they trample the Arabs to death.

Keywords

elephants; elephants' graveyard; ivory; mambas; rhinoceroses

The Terror of the Talking Pool (Table of Contents: 3)

Tabu / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as "Mac"]

Pencils

Ruben Moreira ?

Inks

Ruben Moreira

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

jungle

Characters

Meega; Tabu

Synopsis

A tribe's witch doctor convinces their queen that she has the power of prophecy. He uses her prediction of death to extort gifts from the people, which he appropriates. Tabu exposes him and he is hanged by the tribe.

Keywords

black mambas; coffins; crocodiles; diamonds; execution; hanging; lions; prophecy; visions; witch doctors

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Wambi, The Jungle Boy / comic story / 9.67 pages (report information)

Script

Roy L. Smith (credited)

Pencils

Henry Kiefer

Inks

Henry Kiefer

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You know, Jack, we'll have to capture a large tiger for that specialty act in our new circus!

Genre

jungle

Characters

Jack; Rajah (tiger); Ogg; Wambi; Tawn; Ngandas (African tribe); Manto (tiger)

Synopsis

Hunters looking for a tiger for their circus capture Rajah. Wambi then offers to trade the white men the cruel tiger, Manto, for Rajah. The hunters agree and then doublecross Wambi by imprisoning him and both tigers. Tawn comes to the rescue and the hunters are killed by Manto.

Keywords

medicinal plants; zebras

Indexer Notes

One third of page three of the story is taken up by an Ownership Statement.

[Statement of Ownership] (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

J.G. Scott is given as the owner of Glen-Kel Publishing Company, Inc.

Indexer Notes

located on bottom one-third of page 3 of the Wambi story.

Bush Law (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Ned King]

Letters

typeset

Genre

jungle

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

Fantomah / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

W. B. Hovious

Pencils

George Appel

Inks

George Appel

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Great sorrow mantles Khefra, for Fantomah's court physician is dead.

Genre

jungle; horror-suspense

Characters

Fantomah; Horus; Laän; Shep-hut; Fury

Synopsis

Laän drugs court physician Shep-hut so that he falls into a death-like sleep. Laän hopes to be appointed to the vacant post so that he will close enough to Fantomah to assassinate her and assume her throne. When his plot is exposed, Fantomah orders him and his wife sealed in the tomb that had been prepared for the now-recovered Shep-hut.

Keywords

cougars; premature burial

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

Captain Terry Thunder / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Pierre La Rue

Pencils

Richard Case

Inks

Richard Case

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A young lad and his faithful old servant ride over the sun-burnt desert sands...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Anderson the Arab; Vino (donkey); Hakim; Irita; Terry Thunder; Ibn Saud

Synopsis

The son of an Arab sheik is kidnapped and must be rescued by Terry and Andy.

Keywords

Ring of Power

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Camilla / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Victor Ibsen (credited)

Pencils

George Tuska (signed)

Inks

George Tuska (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Trader Davis told me never to tell this story.

Genre

jungle

Characters

Camilla; Watumbas (African tribe); Matu; Anuka (elephant); Cari

Synopsis

Camilla is washed down a river to a land where dinosaurs have survived to the present day. Also present are a tribe with artificial wings and packs of dingos.

Keywords

artificial wings; dingos; dinosaurs; elephants; hippopotamuses; lions; Lubangi River; maps; Prayer of the Seven Plagues; waterfalls; witch doctors