Issue Details

Issue	#9
Published	October 1953
Frequency	Bi-Monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	?

Cover Details - "Killer Leopard"

Characters	Wild Boy
Genre	jungle

6 page Wild Boy story "The Jaws of Death"

Characters	Wild Boy; Keeto; Chief Jabburi; Nempau (Witch Doctor); Gundai
Synopsis	Wild Boy saves a village from a march of killer ants.
Genre	jungle

7 page Wild Boy story "Killer Leopard"

Characters	Wild Boy; Keeto; Sakko the Killer Leopard; Chief Jabburi; Stacy; Thompson; Captain Stokes; Lawrence Stone
Synopsis	Wild Boy saves the village from a killer leopard and three escaped convicts.
Genre	jungle

6 page Joe Barton story "The Big Hunt"

Characters	Joe Barton; Natombo; Countess Selenka; Sumo; Count Boris Selenka;
Synopsis	After being shipwrecked on an island, Joe is forced to be the prey in Count Selenka's hunt.
Genre	adventure
Pencils	Carmine Infantino
Inks	Carmine Infantino?
Notes	Plot is "borrowed" from the short story "Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, though not credited as such.

3 page Jungle Tales story "Monkey Business"

Synopsis	Two monkeys trick a rinoceros into charging a shipping container to break it open.
Genre	jungle

2 page text story "The Witch Doctor's Secret"

Genre	jungle
Letters	typeset

1 page filler "Cobra: Terror of the Jungle"

Synopsis	Facts about cobras.
Genre	fact
Pencils	Marvin Stein
Inks	Marvin Stein

6 page Wild Boy story "The Oracle of Ikwani"

Characters	Wild Boy; Obbe Ktaru (Chief of the Ikwani Tribe); Castor; Lawrence
Synopsis	Wild Boy saves a tribe from two diamond hunters.
Genre	jungle

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Everybody Wants These Great 3-D Hits!"

Synopsis	Illustrated house ad for St. John's Three Dimensional Comics titles: Whack, Three Stooges and 1,000,000 Years Ago.
Pencils	Charlie Stern (signed)
Inks	Charlie Stern (signed)