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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published January 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
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Cover Details - "Prey Of The Slavers"

Genre jungle
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Letters typeset

11 page Käanga story Prey of the Slavers ["Käanga, mysterious white man of the jungle, is..."]

Characters Käanga (introduction and origin); Ann Mason [Ann] (introduction and origin); Prof. Mason (D; Ann's father) (introduction, death); Bill Blacton (villain, introduction, death)
Genre jungle
Pencils Alex Blum [as Alex Boon]
Inks Alex Blum [as Alex Boon]
Notes Käanga appeared previously in Fiction House's JUNGLE STORIES pulp; The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

6 page White Panther story "In a ruined city deep in the jungle..."

Characters The White Panther (introduction and origin); White Panther's father (introduction); Dr. White (introduction); Dr. White's daughter (introduction); Prof. Zaroff (villain, introduction, death)
Genre jungle
Pencils Taylor Martin (signed)
Inks Taylor Martin (signed)
Notes Signed by "Taylor Martin" and since several of the artists involved did sign their names to their features in this first issue, we'll guess Martin.

8 page Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle story "Deep in the heart of the jungle reigns a man with a sixth sense..." [The Slave Raiders]

Characters Tabu (introduction and origin); witch doctor (introduction); A band of slavers (villains, introduction, death)
Synopsis Tabu tracks and defeats a group of slave raiders.
Genre jungle
Script Fletcher Hanks [as Henry Fletcher] (signed)
Pencils Fletcher Hanks [as Henry Fletcher] (signed)
Inks Fletcher Hanks [as Henry Fletcher] (signed)
Letters Fletcher Hanks
Notes Spelled "Taboo" on cover.
Reprinted in You Shall Die by Your Own Creation! (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #[nn]

8 page Camilla story Queen of the Lost Empire ["The young scientist, Jon Dale, seeks a lost..."]

Characters Camilla (introduction and origin); Jon Dale (introduction); Dr. Birch (introduction); Ruth Birch (introduction)(his daughter)
Pencils C. A. Winter
Inks C. A. Winter
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb. Outline of story is similar to Camilla story in Jungle Comics #2, though she dies in this story, per Anthony Durrant, August 2008.

6 page Captain Terry Thunder of the Congo Lancers story "Deep in the African jungles, overlooking the headwaters..."

Characters Captain Terry Thunder (introduction and origin); the Congo Lancers (introduction and origin); a band of slavers (introduction, villain)
Genre jungle
Pencils Arthur Peddy
Inks Arthur Peddy

7 page Wambi story "Wambi, jungle boy, the mysterious denizen of the..."

Characters Wambi (introduction); Ricco (introduction, villain); Sven (introduction, villain)
Genre jungle
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer

6 page White Hunters of the African Safari story "A wealthy Englishman enters a bar-room in Capetown."

Characters Buck (introduction); Rex (introduction); Slim (introduction)
Genre jungle
Pencils George Wilson (signed)
Inks George Wilson (signed)
Notes This is signed George Wilson, so we're inclined to use that as our guess. It's such amaterish stuff that almost anybody could have done it.

6 page Simba, King of the Beasts story "This is the story of Simba, king of..."

Characters Simba (a lion) (introduction and origin); Slita (another lion) (villain, death)
Genre jungle
Pencils William M. Allison (signed)
Inks William M. Allison (signed)

6 page Drums of the Leopard Men story "Africa. Out of the crawling fever-ridden jungle come..."

Characters Buck Barton (introduction); Marc Vandell (introduction); The Leopard Men (introduction, villain); Zan Markov (introduction, villain, death)
Genre jungle
Pencils Dick Briefer
Inks Dick Briefer