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Issue Details

Issue #1020
Published August-October 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "JUNGLE JIM, No. 1020." Code number is J.J.O.S. #1020-598. Copyright 1959 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Last Jungle Jim Four Color. Follows the Jungle Jim (Dell, 1954 series) which ended with #19 (January-March 1959).

Cover Details

Characters Jungle Jim Bradley; Kolu
Genre jungle
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset

1 page People of Asia filler "The Kurds"

Synopsis Facts about the Kurdish people of the Middle East.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Script submitted on March 2, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

14 page Jungle Jim story "The Vanishing Gems"

Characters Jungle Jim Bradley; Kolu
Synopsis Jungle Jim finds the wreckage of a light plane in the jungle shortly after it goes down. The pilot is the Rajah of Bruntpur and he invites Jungle Jim to visit his palace. A week later, Jim and Kolu go to the Rajah's palace where the Rajah explains that once a year the Ghost of Kuran Das visits the Rajah's sealed vault and takes part of the treasure held there. After the "ghost" strikes the first night Jim is at the palace, Jim stays inside the vault the next night and is rewarded by seeing the "ghost" in action.
Genre jungle
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Gioletti
Inks Alberto Gioletti
Notes Script submitted on June 7, 1958. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page text story "The Last Bullet"

Synopsis Not allowed to go along with his father on a hunt for a jungle boar, Mauri is given five rounds of ammunition to use for target practice instead. The hunters wound the boar in the jungle and the beast makes its way to Mauri's house.
Genre jungle
Pencils Alberto Gioletti
Inks Alberto Gioletti
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with one 1/8 page illustration. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

4 page Ranee Princess of the Jungle story "The Cursed One"

Characters Ranee (tiger); her cub; Gahr (tiger, villain)
Synopsis Ranee and her cub fight off a crippled man-eating tiger that wants their kill, then the pair elude a tiger hunt by the local villagers. The man-eater flees an ambush, but tries to escape to same ledge of the ravine that holds Ranee and her cub. Ranee knocks him off, to be trampled by the stampeding herd of water buffalo.
Genre jungle; animal
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

13 page Jungle Jim story "The Mugger of Am Ghat"

Characters Jungle Jim Bradley; Kolu
Synopsis While exploring the jungle south of the Nepalese Border, Jungle Jim and Kolu witness the sacrifice of a goat from a bridge to a "mugger" (giant crocodile) in the river below. The bridge breaks during the ceremony and Jungle Jim shoots at the crocodile and rescues one of the girls from drowning. Jim is taken into custody by the Rajah for attacking the sacred crocodile. Kolu comes the Rajah's city to rescue Jim but is also captured. Later the girl who Jim rescued comes to their cell and shows them a passage to the outside.
Genre jungle
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Script submitted on April 10, 1958. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Places of Asia filler "Afghanistan"

Synopsis Facts about Afghanistan.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Script submitted on September 5, 1958. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Animals of Asia filler "The Cheetah"

Synopsis Facts about cheetahs.
Genre fact
Script Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils Alberto Giolitti
Inks Alberto Giolitti
Notes Back cover; color. Script submitted on March 2, 1959. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985). Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)