Digital Comic Museum > Jungle Comics 080 (incomplete)-48pgs

Issue: #80
Published: August 1946, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: Jack Byrne (credited)(managing editor); John C. Mitchell (credited)
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

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Salome of the Devil-Cats
Featuring:	Kaänga
Credits:	Pencils: Joe Doolin \| Inks: Joe Doolin
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason Salome

Comic Story (11 pages)	Salome of the Devil-Cats
Featuring:	Kaänga
Synopsis:	Salome, a witch, convinces the rajah that she can make him young again. Kaänga determines to expose her as a fraud. Ann exposes Salome as a fraud and is taken prisoner. Salome prooceeds to torture her. Kaänga arrives, rescues Ann, and kills Salome.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Frank Riddell] \| Pencils: John Celardo (signed) \| Inks: John Celardo (signed)
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Salome (introduction, Villain, Death) The Rajah's Minister (introduction, Villain, Death) The Rajah (introduction) Kaänga Marmo (elephant) T'guans (African Tribe) Ann Mason N'geeso

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Simba, King of Beasts
Synopsis:	Simba rescues a jerboa from a gorilla. Later, when Simba, wounded by a pygmy dart, is battling a leopard for the jungle kingship, the jerboa returns the favor and pulls the dart from Simba, enabling him to defeat the leopard.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Ed Hunt] \| Pencils: August Froehlich (signed) \| Inks: August Froehlich (signed)
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Simba

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Tabu
Synopsis:	A pair of treasure hunters raid the village of the Kalembus and kill the king. Tabu places a curse on them and both die before they can get out of the jungle
Credits:	Script: ? [as Mack] \| Pencils: Richard Case \| Inks: Richard Case
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Morgan (introduction, Villain, Death) Lil (introduction, Villain, Death) Kobali (introduction) M'Bala (introduction) The Kalembus (introduction) Tabu Kalembus (African Tribe)

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring:	Jungle Facts
Synopsis:	A description of the responsibilities and practices of a witch doctor.
Credits:	Pencils: Mike Peppe ? \| Inks: Mike Peppe ?
Genre:	Non-fiction Jungle

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Synopsis:	A professor visiting the jungle goes mad, believing himself the king of the jungle with power over life and death for all inhabitants. Wambi and his jungle friends manage to rescue the professor just before he is killed by the villagers. The professor shortly recovers his senses.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Roy L. Smith] \| Pencils: Gus Schrotter ? \| Inks: Jack Kamen ?
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Professor Malcolm (introduction, Villain) Wambi Ogg Tawn Neru (Cape Buffalo) Satanic (tiger)

Text Story (2 pages)	Curse of the Panther Queen
Credits:	Script: ? [as Frank Riddell] \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Jungle

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Captain Terry Thunder
Synopsis:	Konga, the woman leader of a gang of criminal traders, breaks into the post in order to free her gang.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Pierre La Rue] \| Pencils: Bob Lubbers (signed) \| Inks: Bob Lubbers (signed)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Konga (introduction, Villain) Konga's Gang (introduction, Villains) Terry Thunder Keeto Wadai

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	African Wild Life
Synopsis:	A brief description of the lessons that elephants must learn as they mature.
Credits:	Pencils: George Evans ? \| Inks: George Evans ?
Genre:	Non-fiction Jungle Nature

Comic Story (8 pages)
Featuring:	Camilla
Synopsis:	Camilla opens the bronze door in her temple and finds an underground civilization, called the Devils. The Devils have a prisoner, a village woman, that they intend to have killed by wild animals. Camilla rescues the woman and see to it that the Devils' leader is killed by a leopard.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Victor Ibsen] \| Pencils: Fran Hopper (signed) \| Inks: Fran Hopper; Ruth Atkinson ?
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	The Devils (introduction, Villain) Camilla T'nargs (African Tribe)

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