Jungle Comics #59

(November 1944)

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

Kaänga / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Riddell

Pencils

Marcia Snyder

Inks

Marcia Snyder

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

High in the N'Tomba territory, near the lands of the lake dwellers...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Kaänga; Ann Mason; N'geeso; Nyando; lake dwellers

Synopsis

Kaänga is tricked by the leader of a band of pearl thieves into freeing two of her accomplices from the lake dwellers.

Keywords

bondage; gorillas; leopards; mundo scorpions; pearls; signal drums; taba fish

Indexer Notes

The title on the cover actually refers to the story in issue #58.

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

Wambi, The Jungle Boy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Roy L. Smith

Pencils

Henry Kiefer

Inks

Henry Kiefer

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The germ of mad power-lust invades the remote jungle home of Wambi...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Wambi; Tawn; Ogg; Lari; Gwanda

Synopsis

Wambi's friend, Lari, is expelled from his tribe because he will not participate in a ritual devised by the witch doctor Gwanda, in which an elephant is tortured to death. Wambi helps him return to his village and exposes the witch doctor as a coward.

Reprints

• in Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #127 (July 1950) [edited down to 6 pages with some re-writing]
which is reprinted
• in Diamond Adventure Comic (Atlas Publishing, 1960 series) #8 (March 1961)

Keywords

cruelty to animals; witch doctors

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

Tabu / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Mack]

Pencils

Howard Larsen (signed)

Inks

Howard Larsen (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The distant wail of the death chant echoed the jungle...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Tabu; Sankay; Ma Wali

Synopsis

A witch resurrects the body of the recently dead chief Ma Wali and sends him on a murderous rampage through the village.

Keywords

leopard; shapeshifting; the idol of prophecy; witchcraft; zombies

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

Simba King of Beasts / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Ed Hunt (house name)

Pencils

Richard Case

Inks

Richard Case

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A wasting drought comes to Simba's kingdom.

Genre

animal; jungle

Characters

Simba; Tiku

Synopsis

During a drought, Simba drinks all the contents of a small pool of water in order to have the strength to defeat the rhinoceros that has claimed a larger pool.

Reprints

• in Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #127 (July 1950) [heavily edited with some new and redrawn panels]
which is reprinted
• in Diamond Adventure Comic (Atlas Publishing, 1960 series) #8 (March 1961)

Keywords

drought; rhinoceroses

The Tribes from Nowhere (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Dan Stockman]

Letters

typeset

Genre

jungle

The Antelope (Table of Contents: 6)

African Wild Life / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Norman Leslie

Pencils

Fran Hopper ?

Inks

Fran Hopper ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; nature

Synopsis

Brief natural histories of the waterbuck, the white tailed gnu, the klipspringer, the red fronted gazelle, the sable antelope, Grant's antelope, the beisa oryx, and the kudu.

Keywords

beisa oryxes; Grant's antelopes; klipspringers; kudus; leopards; red fronted gazelles; sable antelopes; waterbucks; white tailed gnus

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

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 desert morning finds a young sultana traveling townward...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Ahmid; Terry Thudner; Anderson the Arab; Vino (donkey); Tanita; Allib

Synopsis

Terry rescues the kidnapped daughter of a sultan.

Keywords

castles

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

Camilla, Queen of the Jungle Empire / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Victor Ibsen (house name)

Pencils

Marcia Snyder (signed)

Inks

Marcia Snyder (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the copper sky the vultures soared lazily...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Camilla; Trader Davis; Gonja; von Weil; Bakosais (African tribe); Swartz

Synopsis

Trader Swartz's nephew, von Weil, plots to murder him in order to inherit his trading station. He is foiled by Camilla and Trader Davis.

Keywords

breakbone fever; laboratories; Sans Merci River; snake venom; swamp cats