Jungle Comics (1940 Fiction House) comic books 1948-1950

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Cover art by John Celardo. "Ten Tusks of Zulu Ivory," art by John Celardo; Station manager Markham spreads word that the station personnel are suffering from fever and the natives give it a wide berth, enabling Markham to steal ten tusks of ivory; When Lindstrom, the station owner arrives, Markham convinces him to sign over the local mines to him; Kaänga rescues the party that Markham had taken hostage and Markham is killed by a captive gorilla. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; Simba is wounded by a rhinoceros that proclaims himself king of the jungle; Simba's wounds are treated by a doctor on safari; When the rhinoceros attacks Simba's family, Simba stands his ground and defeats him. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Congo Lil and her men, disguised as ape cultists, raid the T'bongas and make them slaves in Lil's diamond mine; Terry leads the real ape cultists in attack on Lil and her men and Lil is killed in the battle. Jungle Quiz, art by Mike Peppe. Untitled story, Frank Doyle; After Wambi rescues an orphaned lion from a hunter's trap, the boy becomes jealous of the attention given to the cub by his jungle friends; He plays a series of practical jokes on them that almost results in his own death when he falls into the hunter's tiger trap and they don't believe his cries for help. "Lions at Large" text story. "Zazenda Ghost Goddess of Lost Souls!", art by Maurice Whitman; Tabu and the district commissioner travel by astral projection to the land of the witch Zazenda where Tabu bests her in a magic duel. Untitled story, art by Bob Lubbers; A trio of con men, hoping to extract tribute from a local tribe, use a double of Camilla to warn the tribe against dis-obeying the white men. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by John Celardo. "Terror Trail of the Cannibal Caravans!", art by John Celardo; Baldy and his gang are robbing safaris of their supplies and re-selling them; Kaänga and N'geeso put stop to the raiding and the leaders of the raiders are dissolved in an acid pit. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; After a tumble into the river that washes him far downstream, Simba is mistaken by the other animals for Jordah, their king; He defeats Lepor, a challenger for Jordah's throne, and returns home. Jungle Facts, art by Mike Peppe; A brief natural history of the tiger. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Animal hunter Della France is smuggling looted temple jewels out of the jungle inside the hides of her captured animals; Captain Terry Thunder and Keeto expose her scheme and arrest her. Untitled story, art by Frank Doyle; A tribe of silver apes takes exception to Wambi's insistence on peace in the jungle and kidnap him, taking him to the Temple of Velda where they plan to kill him with a spiked wall; Tawn and Ogg come to Wambi's rescue and close the temple to the silver apes. "Death at Tsavo" text story by Henry Wysham Lanier. Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; Professor Martell is kidnapped by followers of the fire god, Za-Kor; Tabu places his daughter under a dream spell and she sees where he is being held: inside the Za-Kor idol. Untitled stories, art by Bob Lubbers; Jules, Barney, and Gus are masquerading as the spirits of ancient bat-warriors to frighten away the local tribe and steal their gold; Camilla fights them but is overcome; Gus has a change of heart and frees Camilla. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by John Celardo. "The Blade of Buddha," art by John Celardo; A white doctor whom Kaänga believes can cure Ann of her drug-induced madness is captured by a raiding party of Chinese who take him to their village; There Kaänga frees the rightful leader of the village and restores him to his chieftanship. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; Simba is addled by a rifle shot; Mrs. Simba falls into a tiger trap and is caged by hunters; Simba, battling Lukor the leopard who wants to claim his throne, blunders into the hunters' camp and accidentally frees Mrs. Simba. Jungle Lore; A brief description of several African rivers. "Matabele Massacre" text story by Henry Wysham Lanier. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; No-mouth, a horribly scarred artifact hunter, steals the sarcophagus of Antophes, a priceless relic, from museum archaeologist Carol Devens; Captain Terry Thunder helps recover the artifact, and No-mouth is killed by crocodiles. Jungle Facts; A brief natural history of the crocodile. Untitled story, art by Frank Doyle; Curka and Sirdah scheme against Wambi, hoping to kill him; Wambi leads Sirdah on a great chase and eventually tumbles the tiger down a bluff into the river. Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; B'tonga schemes with two white treasure hunters to loot the tombs of his tribesman; The three, along with Tabu, are trapped in a fire and ghosts rescue Tabu, leaving the others to perish. African Wild Life, art by Mike Peppe; Brief natural histories of a few African animals. Untitled story, pencils by Matt Baker; The Arab girl, Tanga, works with a group of white slavers; Camilla pretends to be Tanga and manages to turn the entire gang over to the territorial police. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by John Celardo. "The Red Witch of Ubangi-Shan," art by John Celardo; In order to secure a large supply of slaves for his treasure acquiring operation, El Hammad disguises Trina as Ann and sends her to the villages requesting that they give u[p their warriors to El Hammad; Later the real Ann is captured by El Hammad and used as bait to draw an octopoid monster out of the lake where he believes there to be treasure. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; Kochar the mandrill chief once saved one of Simba's cubs from crocodiles; Recently, Kochar's tribe has begun raiding safaris; Simba investigates and finds that Kochar has been driven from his throne. Untitled story, pencils by Matt Baker; Camilla mistakenly believes that Cynthia Sharpe is the victim of two thieves; In truth, Sharpe and her husband are the thieves. Untitled story, art by Frank Doyle; When hunters seeking animals for circuses dig a tiger trap in the jungle, Wambi and his friends warn everyone in the jungle except for Rhenus who has a reputation for meanness; But when Rhenus falls into the trap, Wambi comes to his rescue and the two of them drive the hunters from the jungle. George Q. Remsen bio, art by George Evans. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Disguised as a trader, Terry seeks to disrupt a band of thieves preying on river travelers; He manages to capture all of the gang except for the leader who is eaten by hyenas. Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; Tabu is summoned to help judge the worthiness of a proposed successor to the late chief Kogar; When her arrives, he learns that the chief selection process is being manipulated by the hag, Sirah, who had also hired Kogar murdered. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Bondage cover by John Celardo. Untitled story, art by John Celardo; Fangola, recently captured safari raider, escapes Kaänga; Fangola then attacks a small safari, taking Sylvia Lombard, her would-be suitor, Wesley, and Ann captive; Kaänga and Sylvia's other suitor, Matthew Clarke come to their rescue. Untitled story; Cheepo, a hectoring monkey, accuses Simba of tyranny, of ruling only by violence; Cheepo sings a different tune when he is captured by hunters and Simba comes to his rescue. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Conmen Vinson and Marge have persuaded several tribes to wager all their ivory on a rigged duel between elephants; The plot is exposed and Vinson and Marge are trampled by elephants. Jungle Facts; Brief natural histories of several jungle animals. Untitled story, art by Frank Doyle; Curka spreads word through the jungle that Wambi has become a hunter when a snare, constructed on a whim, traps an antelope that becomes a meal for Sirdah. "Trapping a Panther" text story. "The Crocodile Rules the River!", pencils by Matt Baker; Camilla extracts a promise from the chief of a tribe that follows a crocodile cult to never again attack trading posts, but the witch doctor of the tribe, secretly a white renegade, attack a trader's steamboat. A big cat identification quiz. Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; A pair of treasure hunters are captured as they attempt to steal the Kawalis' gold; Tabu exposes the woman of the pair as the evil sorceress Vanza in disguise and sends her away, magically. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by John Celardo. "Raid of the Fire-Fangs," art by John Celardo; Jewel thieves disguise themselves as the L'tongas' sacred mandrills and attempt to steal the tribe's sacred diamonds; Kaänga exposes the plot and turns the thieves over to the tribe for punishment. Untitled story, pencils by Joe Doolin; Zarkah, a tiger captured in India, escapes his captors in an African port and makes his way to Simba's jungle; He is killed when he challenges Simba for kingship of the jungle. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi suffers from amnesia after a fall and is persuaded to guide two white treasure hunters to a hidden temple; The treasure hunters begin their looting but dislodge a roof support and are killed in the ceiling collapse. Untitled story, art by Dan Zolnerowich; Treasure hunters install an artillery gun in a giant idol and attack river traffic in order to keep nosy visitors from finding their hidden platinum mine; Captain Terry Thunder and Keeto manage to destroy the idol and arrest the treasure hunters. "The Secret of the Leopard's Lair" text story. Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; Saraz-san gives a jewel to every family member who will make the trek to her jungle home; But each family member winds up dead; Tabu asks her to give him a gem and he goes to the Land of Mists; There he learns that the jewels belonged to the chief of the Opalis and that he was murdered by Saraz-san. Jungle Facts; Brief natural histories of several jungle birds. Untitled story, pencils by Matt Baker; A white slaver, working with Arabs, comes up the scheme of disguising a woman as Camilla and having her lure villagers into a trap; This works until Camilla becomes aware of the scheme and puts a stop to it. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by John Celardo. "Two-Tusked Terror!", art by John Celardo; Trader Larsen disguises himself as Kaänga, hoping to induce the Blongas to trade with his company. Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; Gerald plots with the witch doctor Toguli to have Gerald's niece, Natalie, killed by the local villagers by leading them to believe that she is the demon leopard, Zan-Sar Blanche; Gerald hopes that with Natalie's death, he can secure control of her gold mines. Untitled story, art by Dan Zolnerowich; To investigate the disappearance of many convict laborers from the Merrill mine, Captain Terry Thunder disguises himself as a convict; His imposture is discovered by the mine supervisor who uses it against him by suggesting that he can escape if he will deliver a bag of diamonds to an accomplice; Terry takes the bag and is attacked by Ali Bey's hunting leopards. Untitled story; Thorndyke, a big game hunter, tells his fellow hunters about his encounter with Simba. Thirsty Gamble" text story, art by Joe Doolin. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Sirdah captures Wambi's new friend, Kim-ki the deer, and challenges Wambi to battle him for the deer's release; As the battle begins, Wambi pretends to run in fear from the tiger who pursues him to the swamp, where Sirdah's charge lands him in a mud pit. Untitled story, pencils by Matt Baker; Mansfield, seeking his actress-daughter who is lost in the jungle, learns that his daughter has been killed by N'kara, chieftaness of a local tribe; He goes to Camilla with his information and Camilla vows that the daughter will be avenged. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Treasure Trove in Vulture Sky," art by Maurice Whitman; Kaänga and Ann meet a man wearing artificial wings who tells them that they are worship by his bird man people; Ann and the bird man are taken hostage by treasure hunters who demand to be shown the way to the bird people's home; Kaänga, though wounded, follows, and rescues Ann and the bird people. Untitled story, art by Bill Walsh; Simba prevents Varma killing a lost white child; Varma plots revenge with the aid of the jackals; While the jackals attack Mrs. Simba, Varma makes off with one of Simba's cubs. The Cat Tribe; Brief natural histories of several African cats. Untitled Captain Terry Thunder story; Trader Sanders spurs natives to attack the building of an auxiliary fort to avoid lancer investigation of his illicit trading; Terry and the lancers defeat the natives and force Sanders to admit to his duplicity. "Spoor of the Demon Ape" text story. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; The Ageelas are driven from their village into Wambi's jungle by the followers of the raider Arungo; Wambi and Tawn persuade Arungo's elephants to rebel against their masters and drive them away from the Angeela village. Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; Otanu seeks to prevent Tongo's ascension to the Membesi throne; He conjures the evil goddess, Shamatar, and promises her a soul in return for her help; Shamatar sends a leopard to attack Tongo during a zebra race, allowing Otanu to win. Untitled story, pencils by Matt Baker; Gun runners kidnap the Masai princess, N'kota, and frame the Ugandis for the crime in order to incite warfare; Camilla rescues the princess and stops the impending war. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Killer King's Domain," art by Maurice Whitman; Kaänga learns that the Azandes have been forbidden to trade with the trader Songa by their witch doctor, M'fonga. Kaänga visits the tribe and tells the chief and the warriors that he thinks they should trade with Songa; At the trader's camp, the warriors are betrayed by their chief and Songa takes them all captives, including Ann, to be sold as slaves; Kaänga pursues them to the slave auction and frees the slaves and captures Songa. Untitled story, art by Bill Walsh; Competing parties seek a legendary salt mine: white ivory hunters who will trade the salt to natives for their ivory and natives who will trade the salt for needed supplies; Simba, fighting cantankerous leopards, leads each party to the mine. Untitled story, pencils by Robert Webb; Terry escorts Dr. Carter, an ethnologist, to the L'tonga village where a trial for a pair of jewel thieves is scheduled; Dr. Carter is exposed as an ex-Nazi, looking for the loot taken by the thieves. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi and Leo pretend to have swamp madness in order to drive away the gothali dogs. Untitled story, art by Enrico Bagnoli; A thief steals the idol of Ovambu from the Bulandas and hides it in the temple of the Songais; A pair of treasure hunters come and loot the Songai temple, taking the idol. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Treasure hunters kidnap chief Hetlai's daughter in order to coerce him into helping them loot an ancient Egyptian tomb; Camilla frees the daughter and captures the treasure hunters; She prevents Hetlai from killing them so they can be turned over to the district commissioner. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Wolves of the Desert Night," art by Maurice Whitman; A group of escaped convicts, disguised as commissioner's guards, raise havoc in Kaänga's jungle until they are exposed by Kaänga and turned over to authentic district commissioner guards. Untitled story; Brugga kidnaps Simba's cubs, with the intention of killing them; Simba arrives just in time to save the cubs and kills Brugga in combat. Untitled story, pencils by Jay Disbrow, inks by Bill Walsh; Captain Terry Thunder escorts an archaeologist and his assistant to the Kongola country where they hope to find a buried, ancient city; A pair of prospectors, illegally hydraulically mining in the area, unearth the city. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; A snake charming witch doctor is hired by hunters to bring them game; He uses his flute to lure all the animals of the jungle to the hunters' steamboat where they are caged; Wambi follows and frees the animals, extracts a promise from the witch doctor to never do this again, and cages the hunters, sending their steamboat down the river. Untitled story, art by Enrico Bagnoli; B'maki, a prince of the Basulis, intercepts the new bride of his brother, Orago, as she makes her way to the Basuli village; He plans to marry her himself and become chief; Tabu divines the location of the kidnapper and his victim and hypnotizes B'maki, causing him to fall in a crevasse where he will wait for the jungle authorities. Untitled story, pencils by Ralph Mayo; Camilla infiltrates the camp of the safari raider, the Scorpion, disguised as one of his lieutenants; She then opens the camp's gate to a safari that had been robbed by the Scorpion and they defeat the Scorpion's men. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Ark of the Mist-Maids!", pencils by Maurice Whitman; The Wasumbas witch, Lutoa, is poisoning the chief so that her confederate, N'toba, can seize the chieftainship; Kaänga exposes her plot; N'tonga is killed by animals captured for a funeral sacrifice and Lutoa is captured. Untitled story, pencils by Richard Case; A tiger, brought to Simba's jungle for cross-breeding with lions, escapes and proclaims himself king of the jungle. Untitled story; As Captain Terry Thunder attempts to settle a border dispute between tribes, both parties are attacked by ape men, who are, in reality, disguised henchmen of Baron Lorne who has discovered diamonds in the area and wants both tribes driven out. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi and Sirdah are captured by a big game hunter who wants Sirdah as a prize and Wambi to help him entice other animals into traps; Wambi extracts a promise from Sirdah to only kill when necessary in return for helping him escape. Untitled story, art by Enrico Bagnoli; The Aswengi witch doctor and his wife murder Chief Okuda and frame Tabu; Tabu tricks the pair into confessing with his illusions. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; King Cobra's gang is raiding pygmy funeral barges and taking sacred gold; King himself is beginning to feel remorse for the native killed in these raids; He attempts suicide but manages to only wound himself; He succumbs to amnesia and is befriended by Camilla; His gang seize him from her and plan new raids; Camilla promises to help the pygmies defend their barges; King warns Camilla about the coming raid, allowing her to prevent it. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Dawn-Men of the Congo," art by Maurice Whitman; The Wagonas send word to ga that they are encountering strange animals in their new country; Kaänga, Ann, and Zulu go to the Wagonas and encounter numerous prehistoric animals and Neanderthals; Kaänga challenges the Neanderthal chief to single combat and wins. Untitled story, art by Richard Case; Simba rescues a baby eland from an attack by a hawk. Untitled story, art by Enrico Bagnoli; Trader Harry has been seduced into cheating the natives by Nancy; Tabu exposes the dishonesty and shows Harry a vision of his murder at Nancy's hand. Untitled story; Chief B'timi is drugged by the Freunds and induced to reveal the location of Golden Beard's grave and its treasures; Terry follows them and uses the booby traps put in place by Golden Beard to prevent them from looting the grave. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi helps Princess Natoli recover the sacred sword of her people. Untitled story, pencils by Ralph Mayo, inks by Bernard Sachs; Renegade Chaney posts false notices of new land open for homesteading and, with his gang disguised as natives, attacks the would-be settlers and steal all their supplies; Camilla discovers the plot and exposes it to the commissioner. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"The Captives of Crocodile Swamp," art by Maurice Whitman; Kaänga puts an end to slave raiding by El Borro. Untitled story, art by Richard Case; Villagers and white hunters pursue a rogue elephant that leads them into Simba's territory; Simba attacks the elephant and wounds it. Untitled story; Terry escorts Miss Ross to an oasis where they will meet with the ivory thief, Abu ben Hassin; Terry arrests Hassin but then the group is attacked by another party of raiders, working secretly for Miss Ross; Terry then signals the hidden lancers under Keeto's command and take the lot into custody. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; The rajah's daughter is taken hostage by men who would usurp his rule; Wambi uses hornets to attack the kidnappers and saves the princess. Untitled story starring Tabu, art by Enrico Bagnoli; The Lorutis confuse Merrill, a member of Finney's exploration safari and dressed in a deep sea diving suit, with a god and want to sacrifice the rest of the party. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Bennett and his gang of thieves buy hunting rights on the Nygailas' land; Mabaro, long-thought mad by his people, recognizes Bennett as the leader of the thieves who looted the Nygailas many years before and beat Mabaro and killed his father; He tells his story to Camilla who helps expose Bennett's new thieving of treasure. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; A troop of French Foreign Legionnaires is attacked by leopard cultists; Kaänga, who had been tracking the cultists, challenges the leader of the cult to single combat and kills him; Now, as head of the cult, he disperses them and sends the Legion on its way. Untitled story, pencils by Ken Battefield; Terry is assigned to discover the plans of rebel leader, El Cordofan; He discovers that El Cordofan plans to destroy Fort Diablo with a booby-trapped boat; Terry convinces some of El Cordofan's men to mutiny and El Cordofan is killed in a dynamite explosion. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Binongi hunters come to Wambi's jungle, pursuing a white ape; They capture Wambi when he prevents the taking of the ape; Later, Wambi's jungle friends, joined by the white ape, free him. Untitled story, art by Enrico Bagnoli; Informed in a vision that the witch Lati plans to kill the beloved of K'kito, chief of the Luossas, Tabu hurries to the kraal and fights to free the chief and expose the plot. Untitled story, inks by Ralph Mayo; Bayne and his men are using mechanical dragons to fly stolen diamonds out of the jungle; Camilla, using one of their own dragons, defeats them and takes them into custody. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.