Jungle Comics #66

(June 1945)

Fire-Birds from the Sky! (Table of Contents: 1)

Kaänga / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Riddell (credited)

Pencils

Ruben Moreira (signed as Rubi Moore)

Inks

Ruben Moreira (signed as Rubi Moore)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Blazes! Only winged that blasted native! Can't let...

Genre

jungle

Characters

Kaänga; Ann Mason; Bronson; N'geeso; Tulagis (African tribe)

Synopsis

Bronson, an unscrupulous con man convinces the Tulagis that he commands the sky gods, using hot air balloons in his deception. Kaänga exposes him and watches him fall to his death.

Reprints

• in Kaänga Comics (Fiction House, 1949 series) #2 (Winter 1949)

Keywords

hot air balloons; leopards; lions; Lutora worship; warthogs

Indexer Notes

The story title given in the cover blurb is "Spoor of the Purple Skulls" which does not seem to be this story.

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

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

Script

Roy L. Smith (credited)

Pencils

Bob Webb

Inks

Matt Baker; ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

What has happened? All my brothers flee in panic!!

Genre

jungle

Characters

Wambi; Tawn; Ogg; Alib; Dova (dove)

Synopsis

A muezzin uses the call to prayer to hypnotize a group of apes. He plans to use them in his vengeance plot against the local sheikh by having them kill the sheikh's daughter before his very eyes. Wambi rescues the girl and frees the apes from the muezzin's control.

Keywords

adhan; apes; hypnosis; Islam; minarets; muezzins

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

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

Girls, and more girls...now this is what I call real relaxation.

Genre

adventure

Characters

Terry Thunder; Keeto; Anna Janson; Orovitch

Synopsis

Suspecting that a troupe of dancing girls are being kept as slaves, Terry sends Keeto back to the outpost while follows the troupe. As Terry is about to be killed the slave master Orovitch, Keeto arrives with the lancers.

Keywords

dancing girls; drugs; mind control; slaves; wagons

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

Jungle Facts / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Fran Hopper ?

Inks

Fran Hopper ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The elephant -- largest of jungle animals, has an intelligence close to that of a domestic dog.

Genre

non-fiction; nature

Synopsis

The story of how elephants are domesticated and how they are used.

Keywords

elephants; howdahs

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

Tabu / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Mack]

Pencils

Howard Larsen

Inks

Howard Larsen

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

From out of the veldt they crept, hairy raiders of the jungle trails...

Genre

jungle

Characters

M'naghlis (African tribe); Tabu; Bgama; Rastmos (African tribe)

Synopsis

A band of thieving mandrills are plaguing the M'naghlis. Tabu agrees to end their pillaging if the M'naghlis will give up collecting tribute from their neighbors. Bgama, the princess, refuses, but her witch doctor secretly tells Tabu that he will make her give up tribute. Tabu then leads the mandrills to a crocodile-infested pool, where they are eaten. When he returns to the village, disguised as a girl bringing a tribute of fruit, Bgama attempts to kill him for not bringing something more valuable. Tabu calls an elephant from the bush who crushes Bgama to death.

Keywords

crocodiles; disguises; jewelry; mandrills; whips

The Beast with a Thousand Teeth (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

? [as Dan Stockman]

Letters

typeset

Genre

jungle

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

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

Script

Ed Hunt

Pencils

Richard Case

Inks

Richard Case

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Outlaw!...a dread word to hear in any kingdom...

Genre

animal; jungle

Characters

Simba

Synopsis

Villagers and white hunters pursue a rogue elephant that leads them into Simba's territory. Simba attacks the elephant and wounds it. The hunters arrive and kill it.

Reprints

• in Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #129 (September 1950) [edited down from 6 pages with some re-writing.]

Keywords

elephants

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

Camilla / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Victor Ibsen (credited)

Pencils

Marcia Snyder

Inks

Marcia Snyder

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hark -- Fang's hunting call! Here he comes.

Genre

jungle

Characters

Camilla; Fang (dog); Waskais (African tribe); N'kali

Synopsis

Camilla prevents the assassination of a chief by his witch doctor.

Reprints

• in Kaänga Comics (Fiction House, 1949 series) #11 (Spring 1952) [Edited from 8 pages to 4. Heavilly re-written with some panels redrawn]
which is reprinted
• in Kaänga Comics (H. John Edwards, 1950 ? series) #19

Keywords

animal hides; blow guns; Cape buffalos; cobras; crocodiles; rope bridge; warthogs; witch doctors