Issue: #53
Published: May 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, 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, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 2.
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Comic Story (6 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Simba, King of Beasts |
Synopsis: |
For many years a pygmy tribe has worshiped Simba and left him offerings of food. Now they are being attacked by another tribe and he comes to their defense. |
Genre: |
Animal Jungle |
Characters: |
Klini Knapus (African Tribe) Simba |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Tabu |
Synopsis: |
A tribe prepares to sacrifice a maiden to a water demon, but Tabu offers to slay the demon. On investigation, he finds that it is a tyrannosaurid dinosaur. He kills it and drags it back to the village. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Mack] |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Tabu |
Comic Story (2 pages) |
Monkey Business -- The Tree-Folk of Africa |
Synopsis: |
Brief natural histories of several species of monkey. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Norman Leslie] |
Genre: |
Non-fiction Jungle Nature |
Comic Story (8 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
Synopsis: |
A group of European refugees, building a town in Wambi's jungle, are being plagued by disappearances that they blame on the natives. Wambi proves that the natives are not to blame and proves that a crocodile is responsible. |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Wambi Ogg Tawn |
Text Story (2 pages) |
Blood -- and Water |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Dan Stockman] | Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Comic Story (8 pages) |
White Gorilla! |
Synopsis: |
Escorting two hunters into gorilla country, Camilla encounters a jungle man living with the gorillas. The hunters agree to leave him in the jungle. |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Camilla George Jack Jungle Man |
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