Jungle Comics
#57
(September 1944)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1944-07-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Glen-Kel Pub. Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- Jack Byrne (Managing Editor); John C. Mitchell (Editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 3.
Land That Time Forgot
Kaänga / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Low in the storm-mad sky swooped the great silver bird, crippled...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann Mason; Lance; Ka-winas (ancient African tribe); N'ghana
- Synopsis
- A plane crash strands a trio of explorers on the rim of an ancient volcano. Kaänga and Ann come to offer assistance and they are all attacked by the Ka-winas, an ancient tribe determined to keep their home inside the volcano a secret. Kaänga uses the explorers' dynamite to ignite the volcano and destroy the Ka-winas and then he pushes the plane off the rim to glide to the jungle below.
- Reprints
-
in Kaänga Comics (Fiction House, 1949 series) #1 (Spring 1949) which is reprinted
-
- Keywords
- airplanes; bondage; dynamite; human skeletons; kuaki birds; lions; snakes; storms; volcanos; water buffalo
in Indexer Notes
title on cover is "Fire Gems of T'ulaki" but neither fire gems nor T'ulaki is mentioned in ANY story.
[no title indexed]
Taj of the Elephants / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hark ye! -- to a tale of the hills...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Princess Taj (introduction); Malik; Singh
- Synopsis
- Taj's father is taken by bandits. Taj is freed by Singh after she saves his life from a cobra. Taj is then protected by elephants until she and the elephants can free her father.
- Keywords
- cobras; crocodiles; hunting cheetahs; tigers
Indexer Notes
only appearance.
[no title indexed]
Simba / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One day, as Simba walks about his kingdom...
- Genre
- animal; jungle
- Characters
- Simba; Ngador; Tiku
- Synopsis
- Ngador, a black-maned lion, challenges Simba for the kingship of the jungle and is killed in his duel with Simba.
[no title indexed]
Captain Terry Thunder / comic story / 5.67 pages
- Script
- ? [as Pierre La Rue]
- Pencils
- Howard Larsen (signed)
- Inks
- Howard Larsen (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boom-da! Boom-da! Beat the war drums...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Terry Thunder; swamp people; Lia; Anderson the Arab
- Synopsis
- Terry discovers that the juju the swampmen use to terrorize their neighbors is an old cannon and destroys it.
- Keywords
- bondage; cannons; human sacrifice; idols; quicksand; shrunken heads; snares; stereotyping of African natives
Indexer Notes
final page is two-thirds comics, one-third advertisement.
Killers Make Good Eating
text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Harrison, where are you?
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Tony Harrison; Simeon Brady; M'Suli; Panni
[no title indexed]
Wambi / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One day Wambi and Babu, his baboon pal, hear shots in the distance.
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Wambi; Allan Ford (introduction); Matu (introduction); Demaras (African tribe)(introduction); Worumba (introduction, villain); Babu (baboon); Maggo (macaw); Zella (zebra); Osssa (ostrich); Corna (rhinoceros); Colonel Brent
- Synopsis
- Drought drives the Demara tribe to rebellion.
- Reprints
- from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #24 (December 1941)
-
- Keywords
- bondage; drought; saddle zebras; stereotyping of African natives; witch doctors
[no title indexed]
Camilla, Queen of the Jungle Empire / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- They were building a terror wall in the Aschana Valley...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Camilla; Wasaganis (African tribe); Laura Schwartz; Joe Schwartz; Nolan; Pogo; Bongo
- Synopsis
- Camilla frees a pair of white settlers from the Wasaganis, who are being led by a white criminal.
- Keywords
- apes; Aschana Valley; covered wagons; medicinal plants; otaro leaves; sedan chairs; staked out over an ant hill; stereotyping of African natives
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Fire Gems of T'ulaki
Kaänga -
1.
Land That Time Forgot
Kaänga -
2.
["Hark ye! -- to a tale of the hills..."]
Taj of the Elephants -
3.
["One day, as Simba walks about his kingdom..."]
Simba -
4.
["Boom-da! Boom-da! Beat the war drums..."]
Captain Terry Thunder -
5.
Killers Make Good Eating
-
6.
["One day Wambi and Babu, his baboon pal, hear shots in the distance."]
Wambi -
7.
["They were building a terror wall in the Aschana Valley..."]
Camilla, Queen of the Jungle Empire
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- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Del Gruber
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
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