Issue: #4
Published: April 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: On-sale date from previous issue.
Publication date of February 19, 1940 found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 449460.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Kaänga |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Kaänga and Ann are captured by Broot, who forces Kaänga to labor for him as an act of humiliation. Cheba, rescues the pair and Broot and his mean are left in a tiger trap. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Red Brady] |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Kaänga Sam Broot (villain) Ann Mason Cheba (leopard) |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
The Red Panther |
| Synopsis: |
The Panther prevents two lost criminals from plundering the pitchblende of a tribe in his jungle. As punishment, he rolls the men in the pitchblende and releases them. A week later he finds them dead of radiation poisoning. |
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Script: ? [as Taylor Martin] |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
The Red Panther Two Crooks (introduction, Villain, Death) |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
The Case of the Frightened Killer: Case 2: File A: Clue 2 |
| Featuring: |
Bullseye Bannon |
| Synopsis: |
The second clue in the murder mystery that is serialized across the Fiction House titles this month. |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
Bullseye Bannon Titus |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Camilla is exiled by her people for her cruelty. She encounters Jon and Ruth and transforms Jon into an ice statue and tells Ruth that if she will help her find the fountain of youth, Jon will be restored. Together they locate the fountain and Jon is returned to human form, and Camilla is once more restored to immortality. Sensing a change in Camilla, Jon and Ruth ask her people to return her to her throne and they agree. |
| Genre: |
Jungle Science Fiction |
| Characters: |
Jon Dale Ruth Burch Camilla |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Captain Terry Thunder |
| Synopsis: |
The Ingaras attack Fort Death and capture Terry's men. He barely escapes and makes his way to the next outpost to raise a rescue party. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Buck Johnson] |
| Genre: |
Adventure Jungle |
| Characters: |
Captain Terry Thunder The Ingaras (African Tribe) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Simba, King of the Beasts |
| Synopsis: |
During a terrific storm, two of Simba's cubs become trapped beneath a fallen tree. Simba seeks the help of an elephant to free them. |
| Genre: |
Animal Jungle |
| Characters: |
Simba |
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