Jungle Comics #7

(July 1940)

["Easy money for you!"] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Live Sacrifice (Table of Contents: 2)

Kaänga / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

? [as Red Bradey]

Pencils:

George Tuska

Inks:

George Tuska

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Kaänga; Red Longjohn (introduction); Romey (introduction, villain); the Monkey Men (introduction, villains, death); Ann Mason; Lethor (lion)

Synopsis:

Kaänga guides an explorer to a lost valley inhabited by descendents of ancient Romans and cannibalistic monkey me.

Keywords:

Ancient Rome; bondage; cannibalism

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

first line: "A search for the lost valley into whose depths many an adventurer has vanished,..."

["Black beady-eyed vultures circle around an isolated part of the jungle."] (Table of Contents: 3)

The Red Panther / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script:

? [as Taylor Martin]

Pencils:

Arthur Peddy

Inks:

Arthur Peddy

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

The Red Panther; Boku (introduction, villain, death)

Synopsis:

The Panther restores a deposed chief to his position in his village.

Keywords:

blowguns; stereotyping of African natives

["After her narrow escape from the salt mines..."] (Table of Contents: 4)

Camilla / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

? [as Ted Carter]

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Camilla; Caredodo [becomes Sir Champion] (guest); Mephistopheles (introduction, villain); Temptation (introduction, villain); Satan (introduction, villain); The Angel of Faith (introduction)

Synopsis:

Camilla and Caredodo brave the Cave of Sighs, the entrance to the supernatural underworld. Captured by Satan, Camilla carves a crosses that repulses the monster. The Angel of Faith rescues them and rewards Caredodo by transforming him from an ugly hunchback into a tall, handsome knight. Camilla dubs him "Sir Champion" and makes him her prime minister.

Keywords:

angels; Cave of Sighs; Christian crosses; devil

["The jungle lust for gold drives brother against brother in combat as savage as the primitive beasts and natives!"] (Table of Contents: 5)

Roy Lance / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

? [as Courtney Thomason]

Pencils:

Nick Cardy

Inks:

Nick Cardy

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Roy Lance; Prof. Manners (introduction); Faith Manners (introduction); Joe Manners (introduction, villain); Champ (gorilla)

Synopsis:

Joe Manners captures his explorer brother and plans to murder him to secure his inheritance. Roy attempts to rescue the explorer and only succeeds with the assistance of a tribe of giant gorillas.

Keywords:

cave men; gorillas

The Claw of Simba (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

? [as Bob Clark]

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Ran-Tog

["She has discovered a plot by crooks to enslave the inhabitants of a native village..."] (Table of Contents: 7)

Fantomah / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

Fletcher Hanks (signed)[as Barclay Flagg]

Pencils:

Fletcher Hanks (signed)[as Barclay Flagg]

Inks:

Fletcher Hanks (signed)[as Barclay Flagg]

Colors:

?

Letters:

Fletcher Hanks

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Fantomah

Synopsis:

A group of criminals enslave a village in Fantomah's jungle in order to use them as labor in a diamond mine. Fantomah frees the slaves and takes the four criminals to the Secret Pit of Jungle Horrors where she transforms the four into one man and abandons him to his horrible fate.

Reprints:

• in I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! (Fantagraphics, 2007 series) (June 2007)

Keywords:

airplanes; anti-aircraft guns; diamond mines; monsters; Secret Pit of Jungle Horrors; slavery; white cobras

["Simba, out for a stroll along a favorite trail..."] (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

William M. Allison

Inks:

William M. Allison

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

animal; jungle

Characters:

Simba

Synopsis:

A wounded Simba makes friends with a wounded white girl, lost from her safari. Simba escorts her back to her father where they discover that the father is being tortured by criminals looking for his stash of gold. Simba rescues the man but then he, the father, and the daughter fall into a tiger trap and the criminals begin to bury them alive. Simba call on his animal subjects to rescue them.

Keywords:

bondage; spring traps; stereotyping of African natives; tiger traps; torture

["Miss Gloria Frazier's visit to Terry's fort is nearly over."] (Table of Contents: 9)

Captain Terry Thunder of the Congo Lancers / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

? [as Pierre La Rue]

Pencils:

Bill Bossert

Inks:

Bill Bossert

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Captain Terry Thunder; Gloria Frazier; Abou Ben Ali (introduction, villain); Kismet (camel); Slim Lennon; Tubs Hedge; Sahabid

Synopsis:

Gloria is tricked into a treasure hunt by an Arab merchant who then kidnaps her. Terry rescues her and his two men that he ordered to accompany her on her hunt.

Keywords:

Arabs; camels; Dibella (Arab village); stereotyping of Arabs; treasure maps

["A terrible wind, blowing over Africa, turns villages into a shambles and bends century old trees to the ground..."] (Table of Contents: 10)

Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

? [as Robert Lewis]

Pencils:

Charles Sultan

Inks:

Charles Sultan

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Tabu; the wind-god (introduction, villain); a witch doctor (introduction); Sirocco

Synopsis:

To prevent the destruction of a village, Tabu imprisons a wind spirit. This angers the wind god who sends terrible storms, lightning, and a tornado to the village. Tabu agrees to release the spirit if the god will never attack the village again. The god agrees. Once the winds are gone, the villagers discover that their valley is no longer fertile. Tabu transforms four slain elephants into banana, coconut, and breadfruit trees.

Keywords:

bananas; coconuts; lightning; stereotyping of African natives; storms; tornados; wind

["In daylight, lions will not attack unprovoked."] (Table of Contents: 11)

Jungle Facts / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

? [as Stan Johnson]

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

non-fiction; jungle; nature

Synopsis:

Folklore regarding lions and elephants.

Keywords:

elephants; lions

["In the midst of a laughing water game, Wambi hears a strange sound..."] (Table of Contents: 12)

Wambi, The Jungle Boy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script:

? [as Roy L. Smith]

Pencils:

Henry Kiefer

Inks:

Henry Kiefer ?; ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Wambi; the provincial governor (introduction); the governor's wife (introduction); Kathy (the governor's daughter) (introduction); Kaga (crocodile); Toga; Ongagis (African tribe); Tawn (elephant); Rouma (lion); Kaa (python); Core (condor); Ogg (ape); Dirk

Synopsis:

The provincial governor's daughter is kindapped and held for ransom, but she is rescued by Wambi and his jungle friends.

Keywords:

kidnapping; stereotyping of African natives

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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