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Click Here. Hi Gang,
I'm sure some of you must have noticed several new scans of
'Nyoka, Jungle Girl' going up on the site the last month or so.
These are all thanks to
Titansfan and David Miles. All of their uploads are big upgrades on the older scans that have been on DCM for years.
The guys will be doing
FIFTY-FIVE new scans over the next little while! DCM felt it deserved it's own banner to mark the occasion. TF and DM have agreed to debut their new Nyoka scans on Fridays so we could do another instalment of
Fawcett Fridays!Again, a very big thank-you to Titansfan and David Miles for all their work on these.
And thanks again to
SRCA1941 (Eric S.) who has been amazingly generous with DCM this past year will also be sharing even more Fawcett books from his impressive collection.
Meanwhile, if you aren't familiar with
Nyoka, she first appeared in a Republic Pictures serial
'Jungle Girl' in 1941 and then a sequel
'Perils of Nyoka' (1942), considered by many as one of the best of the jungle serials. From this it was adapted into a Fawcett one-shot comic 'Jungle Girl' in 1942. After appearing in several issues of 'Master Comics' she was given her own title in 1945. (Republic Pictures would adapt Captain Marvel (1941), and Spy Smasher (1942) as serials.)
You can read
Jungle Girl #1 on DCM at this link -
https://tinyurl.com/2hs6mmkjFawcett's
'Nyoka' title continued for 77 issues and are on DCM at this link -
https://tinyurl.com/2hns7hcu. Her appearances in '
Master Comics' from #50 to 132 are found here -
https://tinyurl.com/2pz6zfh3 . Be sure to
give Nyoka #46 a look - it has a surreal adventure right out of 'Gulliver's Travels'.
When Fawcett left the comics field after their decades long court battle with DC
(click here to learn more about how DC vs Fawcett went) they sold off several titles to
Charlton Comics including our jungle heroine. Nyoka first appeared there in
Zoo Funnies v2 #8 (Oct-Nov 1954) for six issues (all on DCM) before she got her own title again at Charlton one year later.
(See here for those issues) Charlton's title would last nine issues through 1957. She was in
175 books between Fawcett and Charlton! More appearances than several other better known Jungle Queens of the goldlen-age!
What made her popular enough to last from 1938 until well into the 90s? See the
CCI: Comic Character Investigation link below that digs into just that question...
Here are some links to get you up to speed -
Nyoka write-up from
'le magazine des cultures comics' - CCI: Comic Character Investigation #27 (2012) by
James Parducci:http://www.comicbox.com/index.php/articles/cci-comic-character-investigation-27/The Republic serial along with a side bar of facts and intro by
David Bruce can be seen on these following links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l_TRhXhxCQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uz8FHnzccghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM6pX8hqtugAnd if you are interested in what other serials
Republic Pictures did you can read about them on this IMDB link -
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls055916753/Enjoy the scans everyone!
-Yoc
