Jungle Comics
#127
(July 1950)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Glen-Kel Pub. Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines 52 Pages
- Editing
- Jack Byrne (credited as J. F. Byrne) (managing editor); John Mitchell (credited as John C. Mitchell) (editor)
in 
[no title indexed]
Kaänga / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- Frank Riddell
- Pencils
- Maurice Whitman (signed)
- Inks
- Maurice Whitman (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Twenty great rains ago, a town was building on the banks of the Manawato...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Zulu; Ann Mason; Mombasas (African tribe); N'kota; hawk men
- Synopsis
- Twenty years ago, a group of white settlers were massacred by unknown natives. Today, their children have banded together to seek revenge, wearing hawk masks. N'kota persuades them that the Mombasas are to blame. In reality, the perpetrators of the massacre were N'kota and his men. The hawk men began to capture Mombasas in anticipation of a mass execution. Kaänga learns the truth and leads the uncaptured Mombasases to the hawk men's headquarters where the captives are freed and N'kota is captured and sent to the district commissioner for trial.
- Reprints
-
in Fight Comics (Trent, 1960 series) #2 ([1960])
-
- Keywords
- bondage; Mankawato River; saddle zebras; signal drums; warthogs
[no title indexed]
Simba, King of the Beasts / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The tree dwellers, the river demons, and even the mighty tuskers heeded Simba's sage advice...
- Genre
- animal; jungle
- Characters
- Simba; Tiku (monkey)
- Synopsis
- Drought forces Simba to go far afield to find water for his subjects. When he does find a waterhole, it is guarded by a rhinoceros that Simba kills.
- Reprints
-
from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #59 (November 1944) [heavily edited with some new and redrawn panels] - in Diamond Adventure Comic (Atlas Publishing, 1960 series) #8 (March 1961)
-
- Keywords
- drought; rhinoceroses
[no title indexed]
Tabu / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ? [as Mack]
- Pencils
- Enrico Bagnoli
- Inks
- Enrico Bagnoli
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What unseen demon-force guided that savage band of marauding apes...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Tabu; Naalo; Awandas (African tribe)
- Synopsis
- White men disguised as apes are looting temples in Tabu's jungle. Tabu discovers the plot at the Snake Temple and uses his illusions to capture the looters.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- apes; Crocodile Temple; disguises; leopards; Lion Temple; Snake Temple
[no title indexed]
Captain Terry Thunder / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The river that flows past Fort Diablo is the entrace and exit to and from the dark jungle lands beyond...
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- Terry Thunder; Keeto' B'fangos (African tribe); M'wili; Miss Dunlap
- Synopsis
- Art collector Miss Dunlap is using hollowed totem poles to smuggle escaped convicts out of Africa. Terry exposes her and recaptures the convicts.
- Reprints
- in Diamond Adventure Comic (Atlas Publishing, 1960 series) #13 (September 1961)
-
- Keywords
- art collecting; Kafka Prison Colony; machine guns; totem poles
The Big Cage (Advanced Trickology, Cont'd)
The Big Cage / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Clyde Beatty
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
[no title indexed]
Wambi, The Jungle Boy / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 'A wounded animal suffers as severely as a wounded person does!'
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Wambi; Ogg; Tawn; 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
- from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #59 (November 1944) [edited down to 6 pages with some re-writing]
- in Diamond Adventure Comic (Atlas Publishing, 1960 series) #8 (March 1961)
-
- Keywords
- cruelty to animals; witch doctors
[no title indexed]
Camilla / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- From the murky waters of the Congo lurched a mysterious fugitive.
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Camilla; Shane; Pete Barton; Fang; Garrity; Hooker; Kenyon; Commissioner Harris
- Synopsis
- Barton and his gang are hijacking prison boats and using the captured convicts as slave labor in their mining operation. Camilla, with Commissioner Harris's aide Garrity, capture the gang and turn the gang and the convicts over to the commissioner.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- bloodhounds; leopards; mining; saddle zebras; slaves; whips
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Kaänga -
1.
["Twenty great rains ago, a town was building on the banks of the Manawato..."]
Kaänga -
2.
["The tree dwellers, the river demons, and even the mighty tuskers heeded Simba's sage advice..."]
Simba, King of the Beasts -
3.
["What unseen demon-force guided that savage band of marauding apes..."]
Tabu -
4.
["The river that flows past Fort Diablo is the entrace and exit to and from the dark jungle lands beyond..."]
Captain Terry Thunder -
5.
The Big Cage (Advanced Trickology, Cont'd)
The Big Cage -
6.
["'A wounded animal suffers as severely as a wounded person does!'"]
Wambi, The Jungle Boy -
7.
["From the murky waters of the Congo lurched a mysterious fugitive."]
Camilla
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Donald Dale Milne
- Tony R. Rose
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
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