Issue: #8
Published: August 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: 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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Cover (1 page) |
Safari into Shadowland |
Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Kaänga |
Comic Story (10 pages) |
Safari into Shadowland |
Synopsis: |
Criminals drive out the workers of a diamond mine and bring in their own natives to work the mine. Kaänga, together with a group of black-maned lions, restores the mine to its rightful owners. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Red Bradey] |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Kaänga Jim Gorr (introduction, Villain) Mogo |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
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Featuring: |
The Red Panther |
Synopsis: |
After a savage tribe wipes out a group of missionaries, the Panther sees to it that they are punished by a flood that leaves their leader dead. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Taylor Martin] |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
The Red Panther |
Comic Story (8 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle |
Synopsis: |
A group of scientists are stricken with a plague after they open an ancient Egyptian tomb in the jungle. Tabu goes to a lost ancient Egyptian outpost for a cure. At the outposts, the descendants of the Egyptians force Tabu to battle and defeat a group of degenerate ratmen and a giant serpent before they give him the cure for the plague. |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Tabu Ratmen (introduction, Villains) A Band Of Egyptians (introduction, Villains) Dr. Denman Falls |
Text Story (2 pages) |
The Dark Horde |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Bob Clark] | Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Ran-Tog |
Comic Story (7 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Captain Terry Thunder of the Congo Lancers |
Synopsis: |
Yak-ho and his savage tribe attack the peaceful Kadahs. Terry uses a stick of chewing gum as a bribe to stop the attacks, but later must exorcise the evil spirit of the gum with a piece of jewelry. |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Captain Terry Thunder Yak-Ho (introduction, Villain) Kismet (camel) |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Roy Lance |
Synopsis: |
Roy helps a diamond mine owner find his mine with the aid of the thieves who stole the map to the mine. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Courtney Thomason] |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Roy Lance Mr. White June White Buono |
Comic Story (1 page) |
The Strange Aardvark; The Bird of Paradise |
Featuring: |
Jungle Facts |
Synopsis: |
A brief natural history of the aardvark and the bird of paradise. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Stan Johnson] |
Genre: |
Non-fiction Jungle Nature |
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