Issue: #50
Published: February 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 60, 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
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Cover (1 page) |
Juggernaut of the Bush |
Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Kaänga Ann Mason |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Simba, King of Beasts |
Synopsis: |
A pair of Arabs enter Simba's jungle, looking for the elephants' graveyard. They shoot and wound a mother elephant and then track her to the graveyard. Meanwhile, Simba protects the soon-to-be orphaned calf. Then he leads an elephant herd to the graveyard where they trample the Arabs to death. |
Genre: |
Animal Jungle |
Characters: |
Simba Abu Landhu Tiku (monkey) Abdah |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Terror of the Talking Pool |
Featuring: |
Tabu |
Synopsis: |
A tribe's witch doctor convinces their queen that she has the power of prophecy. He uses her prediction of death to extort gifts from the people, which he appropriates. Tabu exposes him and he is hanged by the tribe. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as "Mac"] |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Meega Tabu |
Comic Story (10 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
Synopsis: |
Hunters looking for a tiger for their circus capture Rajah. Wambi then offers to trade the white men the cruel tiger, Manto, for Rajah. The hunters agree and then doublecross Wambi by imprisoning him and both tigers. Tawn comes to the rescue and the hunters are killed by Manto. |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Jack Rajah (tiger) Ogg Wambi Tawn Ngandas (African Tribe) Manto (tiger) |
Statement Of Ownership (0 pages) |
Statement of Ownership |
Synopsis: |
J.G. Scott is given as the owner of Glen-Kel Publishing Company, Inc. |
Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
Text Story (2 pages) |
Bush Law |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Ned King] | Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
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Synopsis: |
Laän drugs court physician Shep-hut so that he falls into a death-like sleep. Laän hopes to be appointed to the vacant post so that he will close enough to Fantomah to assassinate her and assume her throne. When his plot is exposed, Fantomah orders him and his wife sealed in the tomb that had been prepared for the now-recovered Shep-hut. |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Fantomah Horus Laän Shep-hut Fury |
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