Digital Comic Museum - Jungle Comics 040 (rescan) -upgrade


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Complete new bigger & better scan of the same comic uploaded before. The printing is often off-center, resulting in almost no border along parts of the sides of several pages.
The fc & bc are from HAG.
A freddyfly original production!

Issue: #40
Published: April 1943, 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, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Killer Plague
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason

Comic Story (14 pages)	Killer Plague
Synopsis:	A white hunter has set up a rendering plant and is indiscriminately killing men and animals to feed the vat of boiling fat.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Varez (introduction, Villain, Death) Garez (introduction, Villain) Zomdi (introduction, Villain) Zulus (introduction, Villain) Zulus (African Tribe) N'geeso Ann Mason Kaänga

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Simba, King of Beasts
Synopsis:	Simba kills an escaped circus ape.
Genre:	Animal Jungle
Characters:	Kagu (ape)(introduction, Villain, Death) Simba

Comic Story (10 pages)
Featuring:	Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Synopsis:	The jungle animals believe that Wambi is responsible for a forest fire that endangers them all.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kuda (introduction) Wambi Ogg Numa (lion) Maggo (macaw) Lupa (wolf) Tawn

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Scorpion!
Synopsis:	The cult of the scorpion god, Kata, comes to Khefra to establish a temple.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	The Scorpion Cult Of Kta (introduction, Villains, Death) High Priest Of Kta (introduction, Villain, Death) Fantomah Horus Fury

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Captain Terry Thunder
Synopsis:	Terry receives word that a nearby outpost is being besieged by Bedouins and rides with his lancers to the rescue. However, it is a trap and Terry and his men are captured and then rescued by Andy and the gang.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Bedouins (villains) Terry Thunder Anderson The Arab Kismet Vincent

Text Story (3 pages)	The Jungle Empress
Credits:	Script: ? [as Tom O'Neill] \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Jungle

Comic Story (8 pages)
Featuring:	Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle
Synopsis:	A white woman with a trained rhinoceros steals the idol of the Zugos. Tabu recovers the statue and returns it.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Mackenzie]
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Magla (introduction, Villain, Death) The Zugos (African Tribe)(introduction) Timo (rhinoceros)

Comic Story (10 pages)
Featuring:	Camilla
Synopsis:	Josephine Jordan, Camilla's cousin (unknown to both Josephine and Camilla), is in the jungle with attorney Jim Rodney to try and learn the fate of Josephine's uncle, Camilla's father. She is kidnapped by a European criminal and rescued by Camilla with help from the Obongos.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Trader Davis Josephine Jordan (introduction) Jim Rodney (introduction) Akkua (introduction) Silkidor (introduction, Villain, Death) Moko (introduction, Villain, Death) Camilla Obogos (African Tribe)

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