Issue: #76
Published: April 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
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
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Cover (1 page) |
Blood-Thirst of the Golden Tusk! |
Featuring: |
Kaänga |
Credits: |
Pencils: Joe Doolin | Inks: Joe Doolin |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Kaänga Ann Mason |
Comic Story (11 pages) |
Monstrosso, King of the Apes |
Featuring: |
Kaänga |
Synopsis: |
Dr. Lane experiments with controlling the minds of animals. When two white hunters learn this, they want to steal the mind-controlled gorilla for themselves, but first, they want to use it to kill Kaänga. Their plan backfires, Kaänga kills the gorilla, and the hunters perish in a fall from a cliff along with Dr. Lane. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Frank Riddell] | Pencils: Howard Larsen | Inks: Howard Larsen |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Kaänga Ann Mason N'geeso K'hamas (African Tribe) Doctor Lane |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Simba, King of Beasts |
Synopsis: |
Simba spoils Chief M'romba's antelope hunt and the chief orders his village to help him kill Simba. Simba evades the traps and the hunters and then, discovering M'romba's son in quicksand, leads the hunters to the boy so that he can be rescued. M'romba forgives Simba. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Ed Hunt] | Pencils: August Froehlich (signed) | Inks: August Froehlich (signed) |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Simba M'romba Raga |
Comic Story (7 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Wambi Jungle Boy |
Synopsis: |
Wambi, aided by his bird friends, disrupts the activities of a white bird hunter who is collecting exotic feathers. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Roy L. Smith] | Pencils: Mike Peppe ? | Inks: Mike Peppe ? |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Wambi Ogg Tawn Ali |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Captain Terry Thunder |
Synopsis: |
A woman posing as a geologist kidnaps the sultan and his daughter. Terry rescues them once he figures out the woman's ruse. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Pierre La Rue] | Pencils: Joe Doolin | Inks: Joe Doolin |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Terry Thunder Keeto Wanda Smyth Jones Sultan Muhamed |
Text Story (2 pages) |
Stalkers of the Black Renegade |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Reynold Morgan] | Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Tabu |
Synopsis: |
Sata steals the power of mind control from an old witch in order to rule the jungle. Tabu intervenes and restores the old woman's power and sees to it that Sata is banished. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Mack] | Pencils: Richard Case | Inks: Richard Case |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Tabu Sata |
Activity (2 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Jungle Facts |
Synopsis: |
An animal identification quiz. |
Credits: |
Pencils: Mike Peppe (signed) | Inks: Mike Peppe (signed) |
Genre: |
Non-fiction Jungle Nature |
Comic Story (8 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Camilla |
Synopsis: |
Camilla thwarts M'bizi's efforts to prevent the wedding of Barong and Feda. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Victor Ibsen] | Pencils: Fran Hopper | Inks: Fran Hopper ?; Ruth Atkinson ? |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Camilla Barong Feda M'bizi M'bomba Fang (dog) |
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