Issue: #44
Published: August 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 60, Editing: John C. Mitchell
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, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 3.
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| Cover (1 page) |
Monster of the Boiling Pool |
| Featuring: |
Kaänga |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ruben Moreira | Inks: Ruben Moreira | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Kaänga Ann Mason |
| Comic Story (12 pages) |
Monster of the Boiling Pool |
| Featuring: |
Kaänga |
| Synopsis: |
After N'geeso suffers a crocodile bite, Kaänga and Ann go to the country of the Baboon Men for a medicinal moss. They learn that headhunters have targeted the Baboon Men. Kaänga tricks the headhunters into running into a hot spring where many of them drown. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Frank Riddell] |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Kaänga Ann Mason N'geeso Baboon Men Roog |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Simba, King of Beasts |
| Synopsis: |
Simba's role as king of the jungle is challenged by a white rhinoceros. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Ed Hunt] | Pencils: Robert Webb | Inks: E. H. Hart ?; Jack Kamen ? |
| Genre: |
Animal Jungle |
| Characters: |
Simba Tondar (white Rhinoceros) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle |
| Synopsis: |
Melini uses trickery to convince the Mengos that he has magic power. Tabu does a stage trick of his own and exposes Melini. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as "Mack"] | Pencils: Saul Rosen | Inks: Saul Rosen |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Tabu Melini Mengos (African Tribe) Migi |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
Elephant's Graveyard! |
| Featuring: |
Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
| Synopsis: |
Tawn, wounded by ivory hunters, makes his way to the elephants' graveyard, followed by Wambi and Dr. Burman. Dr. Burman removes the bullet from Tawn and he makes a quick recovery. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Roy L. Smith] | Pencils: Henry Kiefer | Inks: Henry Kiefer |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Wambi Tawn Zingos (African Tribe) Dr. Burman Ogg |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Fantomah, Daughter of the Pharoahs |
| Synopsis: |
A convict's wife, devastated by his life sentence, leads a slave revolt against Fantomah. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as W. B. Hovious] | Pencils: George Appel | Inks: George Appel |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Fantomah Horus Fury Lupa (leopard) |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Lion Bait |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Buck Stanley] | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Camilla |
| Synopsis: |
A con man plans a trip to Africa; on his return he planned to present an actress as the long lost daughter of Steven and Camilla Jordan Dane so that she could "inherit" the Jordan fortune. But the plot runs afoul of Camilla, who remains ignorant of her origins. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Victor Ibsen] | Pencils: George Tuska; Art Saaf ? | Inks: ?; Art Saaf ? |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Camilla Marcia Blake Joel Webb Trader Davis Toma Fin Steven Dane Camilla Jordan Dane |
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