Issue Details

Issue	#18
Published	April 1948
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Ralph Daigh (Editorial Director); Al Allard (Art Director); Virginia Provisiero (uncredited)

Cover Details - "The Art of Murder"

Genre	Jungle
Pencils	Bert Whitman?
Inks	Bert Whitman?

7 page Nyoka the Jungle Girl story "The Art of Murder, Part I: A Brush With Death"

Characters	Van Morte (first appearance; villain)
Genre	Jungle
Script	Rod Reed?
Pencils	Bert Whitman?
Inks	Bert Whitman?

Half page Lumber Jack filler "A Sight to See"

Genre

Gag

Half page Trader Tom filler "Registers with Us!"

Genre

Gag

1 page Wheaties advertisement "Ozzie" Cowles

Notes

Ad in sequential art form.

1 page Whippersnappers filler "The Younger Generation"

Genre

Gag

4 page Lion-Hearted Leo, the Animal Trainer story "A Slippery Character"

Genre

Humor

5 page Nyoka the Jungle Girl story "The Art of Murder, Part II: The Mad Masterpiece"

Characters	Van Morte (villain; death)
Genre	Jungle
Script	Rod Reed?
Pencils	Bert Whitman
Inks	Bert Whitman

Half page Trader Tom filler "Hide, Man, Hide"

Genre

Gag

2 page text story "The Death Rites of Turugu"

Script	Rod Reed [as Clement Good]
Pencils	? (illustration)
Inks	? (illustration)
Letters	typeset

Half page Wilbur the Waiter filler "Bowled Over"

Genre	Gag
Notes	Falls between the two pages of the text story.

Half page Smith Brothers Cough Drops advertisement "Danny's Dream"

Script	S. B. Black
Pencils	S. B. Black
Inks	S. B. Black
Notes	Ad in sequential art form. Falls between the two pages of the text story.

2 page Nyoka the Jungle Girl's History of Animals story "Aardvark"

Genre

Fact

5 page Nyoka the Jungle Girl story "The Emperor of the Jungles!"

Characters	Cummings (first appearance)
Genre	Jungle
Script	Rod Reed?
Pencils	Bert Whitman
Inks	Bert Whitman