Jungle Comics
#32
H. John Edwards,
1950? Series
- Price
- 6d [0-0-6 AUP]
- Pages
- 28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- H. John Edwards Co. Pty. Ltd
- Brand
- Fiction House Magazines
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia at the bottom of page 4 of the Phantoms of the Sea story lists:
"JUNGLE COMIC NO. 32. Published by H. John Edwards Publishing Co, Pty. Ltd., 14 Bond Street, Sydney. Copyright. All rights reserved by Fiction House Inc., 130 West 42nd Street, New York, 18, U.S.A. Names of all characters used in the Magazine are fictitious. If the name of any person living or dead is used, it is a coincidence. Printed by "Truth" and "Sportsman" Ltd., corner of Kippax and Holt Streets, Sydney."
It continues on page 5:
"JUNGLE COMIC No. 32: Published by H. John Edwards Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 14 Bond Street, Sydney. printed by Bridge Printery Pty. Ltd., 117 Reservoir Street, Sydney."
"JUNGLE COMIC NO. 32. Published by H. John Edwards Publishing Co, Pty. Ltd., 14 Bond Street, Sydney. Copyright. All rights reserved by Fiction House Inc., 130 West 42nd Street, New York, 18, U.S.A. Names of all characters used in the Magazine are fictitious. If the name of any person living or dead is used, it is a coincidence. Printed by "Truth" and "Sportsman" Ltd., corner of Kippax and Holt Streets, Sydney."
It continues on page 5:
"JUNGLE COMIC No. 32: Published by H. John Edwards Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 14 Bond Street, Sydney. printed by Bridge Printery Pty. Ltd., 117 Reservoir Street, Sydney."
Swamp of the Shrieking Dead
Kaänga / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Maurice Whitman (signed)
- Inks
- Maurice Whitman (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Four days and four nights...the big B'fanti drums had boomed a mystery message."
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann Mason; B'fantis (African tribe); Marmo (elephant); M'sungu; Belden; Hook Jorgenson (villain)
- Synopsis
- Crooked trader Jorgenson kidnaps Ann in order to sell her to Arab slavers and puts Kaänga to work as a logging slave. Kaänga escapes and frees Ann.
- Reprints
-
from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #155 (November 1952)
-
- Keywords
- bankuto trees; lions; logging; rhinoceros worship; signal drums; slave auctions; stereotyping of Arabs; Tinga Swamp; white rhinoceroses
Indexer Notes
Title from cover.
[no title indexed]
Tiger Girl / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He was B'Shini, the shadow god...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Tiger Girl; B'shini [Trader Gregory] (villain, dies); Abdola; Benzali (tiger); John Crane; Ellen Crane
- Synopsis
- The mysterious B'shini urges natives to attack safaris and share their loot with him. He is exposed by Tiger Girl as Trader Gregory.
- Reprints
- from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #155 (November 1952) which is reprinted
- from Fight Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #56 (June 1948) [5 pages edited out]
-
- Keywords
- amputation; disguises; elephants; leopards; masks; saddle zebras; wheelchairs
Annie Oakley
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- biography
- Reprints
- from Firehair (Fiction House, 1951 series) #9 (Fall 1951)
-
[no title indexed]
Hawk / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "They called him mad when he hired a pirate turncoat..."
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Rufe; Greta; Captain Hawk; Velvet; Jeremy; Seth Lodger (villain); Caleb; Fluth; Jeffery
- Synopsis
- Captain Hawk is hired to take a captain's son to his island fortress to claim his inheritance. The captain's servants refuse to recognize Jeffery. While they are fighting, the real Jeffery arrives. Together, Hawk and the servants arrest the imposter.
- Reprints
- from Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #147 (May 1951)
-
- Keywords
- Lady Scarlett
Phantoms from the Sea
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Sea spray pounded against the jetty"
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Betty; Jim; Gideon (villain); Quinn (villain); John Gilroy
- Synopsis
- A band of “shipwreckers” occupy a lighthouse to lure ships to their doom. They are overwhelmed by a brave couple, the old lighthouse keeper and the ghosts of their previous victims.
- Reprints
- from Ghost Comics (Fiction House, 1951 series) #5 (Winter 1952)
-
- Keywords
- Gravesend Lighthouse
[Timber!]
Body Sculpture Club / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Bob; Alice
- Synopsis
- Alice wonders why Bob can't be more like the lumberjacks in her father's company. Bob can't see the appeal, but on seeing a newspaper ad for the Body Sculpture Club sends away for a bodybuilding course and that does the trick.
- Reprints
from Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Kaänga -
1.
Swamp of the Shrieking Dead
Kaänga -
2.
["He was B'Shini, the shadow god..."]
Tiger Girl -
3.
Annie Oakley
-
4.
[""They called him mad when he hired a pirate turncoat...""]
Hawk -
5.
Phantoms from the Sea
-
6.
[Timber!]
Body Sculpture Club
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