Digital Comic Museum - Jungle Comics 044 (diff ver)


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August, 1943 - 400 dpi scan of a coverless book. Complete scan of a coverless comic missing 6 pages at the centerfold. Front cover composited from Heritage and copy found on internet. IFC IBC, and back cover from Jumbo Comics #54, scanned by Snard, from a book formerly in the JVJ collection. Indicia painstakingly reconstructed from existing scan by freddyfly. Missing interior pages taken from the same scan and have been resized and color corrected to match the rest of the book. Featuring Kaänga, Simba, King of the Beasts, Tabu, Wambi, Fantomah, Captain Terry Thunder, and Camilla.

Issue: #44
Published: August 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 60, Editing:
Color: Color Cover; Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. (early Issues); Standard Silver Age U.S. (later Issues) 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.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Monster of the Boiling Pool
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason

Comic Story (12 pages)	Monster of the Boiling Pool
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.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason N'geeso Baboon Men Roog

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Simba's role as king of the jungle is challenged by a white rhinoceros.
Genre:	Animal Jungle
Characters:	Simba Tondar (white Rhinoceros)

Comic Story (6 pages)
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"]
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Tabu Melini Mengos (African Tribe) Migi

Comic Story (10 pages)	Elephant's Graveyard!
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.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Wambi Tawn Zingos (African Tribe) Dr. Burman Ogg

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	A convict's wife, devastated by his life sentence, leads a slave revolt against Fantomah.
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 (5 pages)
Synopsis:	Terry and the gang free a Free French jungle outpost from the Nazis.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Terry Thunder Anderson The Arab Kismet Vincent Jacques Schlang

Comic Story (10 pages)
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.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Camilla Marcia Blake Joel Webb Trader Davis Toma Fin Steven Dane Camilla Jordan Dane

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