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Issue Details

Issue #565
Published June 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "JUNGLE JIM, No. 565." Code number is J.JIM O.S. #565-546. Copyright 1954 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Based on the "Jungle Jim" newspaper strip.

Cover Details

Characters Jungle Jim
Genre jungle
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Malacca!"

Synopsis Map and introduction to the setting of the story in the Malacca Straits in Southeast Asia.
Pencils William Overgard ?
Inks William Overgard ?
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

17 page Jungle Jim story "Pirates of Malacca Straits"

Characters Jungle Jim; Kolu
Synopsis Jim and Kolu are assigned to find the hide-out of pirates who are robbing ships to finance guerrillas in Malaya and Indochina.
Genre jungle
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils William Overgard
Inks William Overgard
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

17 page Jungle Jim story "The One-Way Trail"

Characters Jungle Jim; Kolu
Synopsis Jim and Kolu are sent to cut a trail to a new air landing strip in Malaya and find out why the previous two surveying parties disappeared.
Genre jungle
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils William Overgard
Inks William Overgard
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).