Issue: #7
Published: July 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Cover; Black And White Interior Dimensions: Early Issues Standard Golden Age U.S.; Later Issues Standard Silver Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Scan & some info supplied by Al Dellinges thanks to Henry R. Kujawa's report to GCD error list.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
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| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
An in-house promotional advertisement soliciting advertising copy from readers who are to send in their copy along with four coupons from Fiction House comics. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Claw of Simba |
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Script: ? [as Bob Clark] | Letters: typeset |
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Jungle |
| Characters: |
Ran-Tog |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
A group of criminals enslave a village in Fantomah's jungle in order to use them as labor in a diamond mine. Fantomah frees the slaves and takes the four criminals to the Secret Pit of Jungle Horrors where she transforms the four into one man and abandons him to his horrible fate. |
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Jungle |
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Fantomah |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
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Simba, King of the Beasts |
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A wounded Simba makes friends with a wounded white girl, lost from her safari. Simba escorts her back to her father where they discover that the father is being tortured by criminals looking for his stash of gold. Simba rescues the man but then he, the father, and the daughter fall into a tiger trap and the criminals begin to bury them alive. Simba call on his animal subjects to rescue them. |
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Animal Jungle |
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Simba |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
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Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle |
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To prevent the destruction of a village, Tabu imprisons a wind spirit. This angers the wind god who sends terrible storms, lightning, and a tornado to the village. Tabu agrees to release the spirit if the god will never attack the village again. The god agrees. Once the winds are gone, the villagers discover that their valley is no longer fertile. Tabu transforms four slain elephants into banana, coconut, and breadfruit trees. |
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Jungle |
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Tabu The Wind-god (introduction, Villain) A Witch Doctor (introduction) Sirocco |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Jungle Facts |
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Folklore regarding lions and elephants. |
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Script: ? [as Stan Johnson] |
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Non-fiction Jungle Nature |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
An in-house promotional advertisement for Fiction House's Planet Comics, Fight Comics, and Jumbo Comics. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
An advertisement for the Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter from Remington Rand, Incorporated. Purchases of the typewriter may also buy a desk for one dollar. |
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Letters: typeset |
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