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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published Winter 1953-1954
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Jerry Iger (art director)
Notes In the indicia the date is 'Winter 1953', and the title is Kaänga Jungle King (also on the cover)

Cover Details

Notes There are 2 story-titles on the cover, neither of which matches the comic's stories

1 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes House ad for two Fiction House 3-D comics

10 page Kaänga story "This was in the Shari country where the great rains fall and the king beasts prowl..."

Characters Kaänga; Blackie Rawls (first appearance; villain; death); Bart (first appearance; villain; death); Logan (first appearance; villain; death); Capt. Clyde Anker (first appearance); M'Bala (first appearance)
Pencils John Celardo
Inks John Celardo
Reprinted in Kaänga (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1

4 page story "Jan Christiaan Smuts"

Characters General Botha (first president of South Africa); Jan Christiaan Smuts (first Colonial Secretary, later the second President)
Genre Biography
Pencils Jack Abel
Inks Jack Abel
Notes True story of the formation of a new country: The Union of South Africa
Reprinted from Kaänga (Fiction House, 1949 series) #1; Also reprinted in Kaänga (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1

1 page filler "Jungle Kings"

Genre jungle

2 page text story "The Crypt"

Script Frank Riddell
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Kaänga (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1

1 page filler "Jungle Kings"

10 page Kaänga story "The Deathmaker!"

Characters Kaänga; The Deathmaker (first appearance; villain; death); Targa (first appearance; villain; death)
Pencils John Celardo?
Inks John Celardo?
Reprinted in Kaänga (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1