Kaänga Comics
#27
([1952] ?)
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
A version of this comic was prnted for the UK market with a local advertisement on the back cover (Body Sculpture Club, 102/7 Success House, Surbiton, Surrey).
[no title indexed]
Kaänga / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle
- Reprints
-
from Kaänga Comics (Fiction House, 1949 series) #13 (Fall 1952)
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[no title indexed]
Kaänga / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Frank Riddell
- Pencils
- John Celardo
- Inks
- John Celardo
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- ? (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Zahinda, the legless, swore by his rhino lash...
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Zahinda
- Reprints
- from Kaänga Comics (Fiction House, 1949 series) #14 (Winter 1952) which is reprinted
- from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #87 (March 1947) [completely rewritten but with the same artwork]
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Indexer Notes
This version of the story from Kaänga Comics 14 has two pages edited out, significant text changes (almost completely rescripted), and Celardo's signature removed. The material removed includes two panels from the original p.6 (the page number still exists in the middle of the page where the tiers have been realligned), two panels from p7, four panels from p.8 (with the rest move earlier in the reprint, five panels from p.9 (only one panel remains), and one panel from p.10.
[no title indexed]
The Ghost Gallery / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Drew Murdoch
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen
- Inks
- Jack Kamen
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- ? (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- … I was delighted to get the school teacher's position...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Drew is invited by Sally to prove a mill isn't really haunted, but once he gets snared by the hoods using the mill as phony ghosts, he finds real ghosts who help him turn the tables.
- Reprints
- from Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #132 (February 1950)
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Indexer Notes
This reprint ends with the promo "Ghost Gallery every month in Jumbo Comics!"
[no title indexed]
Jungle Tales / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There was good fortune to be found at the old ruins...
- Genre
- jungle
- Reprints
- from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #154 (October 1952)
-
The Animal Question
text story / 2 pages
- Reprints
- from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #145 (January 1952)
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The Curse of Kintu
Mysteries of the Jungle / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony D'Adamo (signed)
- Inks
- Tony D'Adamo (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- ? (original editor)
- Genre
- jungle
- Reprints
- from Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #154 (October 1952)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Kaänga -
1.
["Zahinda, the legless, swore by his rhino lash..."]
Kaänga -
2.
["… I was delighted to get the school teacher's position..."]
The Ghost Gallery -
3.
["There was good fortune to be found at the old ruins..."]
Jungle Tales -
4.
The Animal Question
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5.
The Curse of Kintu
Mysteries of the Jungle
This issue was modified by
- Doug Brain
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- James Zee
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