Digital Comic Museum - Jungle Comics AU 032


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Aussie reprint of parts of US Jungle Comics #155, Jumbo Comics #147 and Ghost Comics #5.

Issue: #32
Published: , Price: 6d [0-0-6 AUP], Pages: 28, Editing:
Color: Colour Cover; Black And White Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Indicia at the bottom of page 4 of the Phantoms of the Sea story lists: "JUNGLE COMIC NO. 32. Published by H. John Edwards Publishing Co, Pty. Ltd., 14 Bond Street, Sydney. Copyright. All rights reserved by Fiction House Inc., 130 West 42nd Street, New York, 18, U.S.A. Names of all characters used in the Magazine are fictitious. If the name of any person living or dead is used, it is a coincidence. Printed by "Truth" and "Sportsman" Ltd., corner of Kippax and Holt Streets, Sydney." It continues on page 5: "JUNGLE COMIC No. 32: Published by H. John Edwards Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 14 Bond Street, Sydney. printed by Bridge Printery Pty. Ltd., 117 Reservoir Street, Sydney."

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Kaänga
Credits:	Inks: ?; ? (touch-ups)
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason

Comic Story (9 pages)	Swamp of the Shrieking Dead
Featuring:	Kaänga
Synopsis:	Crooked trader Jorgenson kidnaps Ann in order to sell her to Arab slavers and puts Kaänga to work as a logging slave. Kaänga escapes and frees Ann.
Credits:	Pencils: Maurice Whitman (signed) \| Inks: Maurice Whitman (signed)
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason B'fantis (African Tribe) Marmo (elephant) M'sungu Belden Hook Jorgenson (villain)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Tiger Girl
Synopsis:	The mysterious B'shini urges natives to attack safaris and share their loot with him. He is exposed by Tiger Girl as Trader Gregory.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Alan O'Hara] \| Pencils: John Forte ?; Jack Kamen ? \| Inks: Jay Disbrow ?; ? (Iger Shop)
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Tiger Girl B'shini [Trader Gregory] (villain, Dies) Abdola Benzali (tiger) John Crane Ellen Crane

Comic Story (1 page)	Annie Oakley
Genre:	Biography

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Hawk
Synopsis:	Captain Hawk is hired to take a captain's son to his island fortress to claim his inheritance. The captain's servants refuse to recognize Jeffery. While they are fighting, the real Jeffery arrives. Together, Hawk and the servants arrest the imposter.
Credits:	Pencils: Robert Webb \| Inks: Robert Webb
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Rufe Greta Captain Hawk Velvet Jeremy Seth Lodger (villain) Caleb Fluth Jeffery

Comic Story (5 pages)	Phantoms from the Sea
Synopsis:	A band of “shipwreckers” occupy a lighthouse to lure ships to their doom. They are overwhelmed by a brave couple, the old lighthouse keeper and the ghosts of their previous victims.
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Nicholas ? \| Inks: Jack Abel ?
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Betty Jim Gideon (villain) Quinn (villain) John Gilroy

Advertisement (1 page)	Timber!
Featuring:	Body Sculpture Club
Synopsis:	Alice wonders why Bob can't be more like the lumberjacks in her father's company. Bob can't see the appeal, but on seeing a newspaper ad for the Body Sculpture Club sends away for a bodybuilding course and that does the trick.
Credits:	Letters: ?; Typeset
Characters:	Bob Alice

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