Jungle Comics
#140
(August 1951)
Fiction House,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Glen-Kel Pub. Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
Fiction House Magazines 30th Year
- Editing
- J.F. Byrne (Managing Editor)(credited); John C. Mitchell (editor)(credited); Jerry Iger (Art Director)(credited)
Issue Notes
36-page issues resume.
in 
The Monsters of Kilmanjabo
Kaänga / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- By a she-lion's blood and the fang of an ape, King Zando of the Silver Spears swore his oath against the Walesa tribe...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann Mason; Zulu; Zando; Walesas (African tribe); Marmno (elephant); Tembulu; Shashanis (African tribe); N'ganda
- Synopsis
- Kaänga, Ann, and Zulu aid the Walesas against the men of King Zando, who has vowed to destroy them.
- Keywords
- chariots; dancing; draft zebras; idols; javiro dust; rhinoceroses; stereotyping of African natives; Umbanza River
Indexer Notes
Title from cover.
[no title indexed]
Wambi / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wambi, the jungle boy, had coaxed his friends Tawn and Ogg to level and place the huge tree trunk for him...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Wambi; Leo (leopard); Tawn; Ogg
- Synopsis
- When Wambi asks Tawn and Ogg for their help in returning a hippo calf to its mother, they refuse, saying they owe nothing to the calf. Later, when Tawn's calf is endangered by native hunters, the hippo mother comes to the rescue. Tawn and Ogg learned a lesson in gratitude.
- Keywords
- canoe making; hippopotamuses
[no title indexed]
Capt. Terry Thunder / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The long months of espionage work had ended at last for Captain Terry Thunder.
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Terry Thunder; Keeto; Kafir; Kibalas (African tribe); Miss Porter
- Synopsis
- Miss Porter and Kafir plot to make Kafir chief of the Kibalas. Kafir pretends to be blind and is granted entrance to the Kibalas' sacred temple. Once inside, he uses a camera to photograph the idol. Later, he claims to be the rightful chief of the Kibalas due to his amazing powers. He waves his hand over a canvas (previously treated by Porter to create a photographic print) and causes the image of the idol to appear. Terry exposes Kafir as sighted by threatening him with a spear which causes the fraud to flinch.
- Keywords
- blindness; cameras; leopards; steamboats
[no title indexed]
Camilla / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Zagar Khai, the natives called him -- Killer Claw!
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Camilla; Zagar Khai (leopard); Narayo; Wasulis (African tribe); Masais (African tribe); Garro; Chip Gaines; Skeet
- Synopsis
- A pair of crooked traders take the Walsulis' sacred white hippopotamus. Camilla pursues them and recovers the sacred animal. The traders are killed by the other animals they had captured for the circus trade.
- Keywords
- Congo Star (steam boat); diamonds; white hippopotamuses
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Monsters of Kilmanjabo
Kaänga -
1.
The Monsters of Kilmanjabo
Kaänga -
2.
["Wambi, the jungle boy, had coaxed his friends Tawn and Ogg to level and place the huge tree trunk for him..."]
Wambi -
3.
["The long months of espionage work had ended at last for Captain Terry Thunder."]
Capt. Terry Thunder -
4.
Cats in the Big Cage
The Big Cage -
5.
["Zagar Khai, the natives called him -- Killer Claw!"]
Camilla
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