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Issue: Wild Boy #11 [2] Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1951
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Issues: #11 [2] of 8 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagZiff-Davis
Brand: A Ziff-Davis ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Jerry Siegel
Disclose Notes: Indicia: COPYRIGHT 1951 BY ZIFF-DAVIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
WILD BOY, No. 11, APRIL-MAY, published bi-monthly, by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 185 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago 1, Illinois. William B. Ziff, Chairman of the Board; B.G. Davis, President; Vice-Presidents -- Michael H. Froelich, Director Eastern Division; H. J. Morganroth, Production Director; Lynn Phillips, Jr., Advertising Director; H. G. Strong. Circulation Director. A.T. Pullen, Secretary-Treasurer. Herman R. Bollin, Art Director. Executive and Editorial Office, 366 Madison Ave., New York 17, N.Y. Jerry Siegel, Director Comics Division. Single copies 10c. Application for second class entry pending at Post Office, Chicago, Ill. Subscription rates: In the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South and Central America and U. S. Possessions, $1.00 for 12 issues; in all other countries $2.00 for 12 issues. All communications about subscriptions should he addressed to the Circulation Department, 185 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago 1, Ill. The Publisher is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or art work. Manuscripts or art work accompanied by self-addressed, stamped envelopes will be returned. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institutions appearing in this magazine and those of any living or dead person or institution is intended and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Norman Saunders (painting)
Inker(s): Norman Saunders (painting)
Colorist(s): Norman Saunders (painting)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art credit from David Saunders, Norman Saunders' son, via e-mail (January 6, 2008)
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ross Andru
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Jungle Oddities
First Line: The two-toed sloth of South America...
Synopsis: Inside front cover, black and white feature illustrating the two-toed sloth of South America; piranha fish of the Amazon; Ubangi women of French Equitorial Africa; the king cobra; the gorilla.
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Pages: 1
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The Witch Doctor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Wild Boy; Keeto; Chief Kambala; Lura; Zabba; Aarg
Synopsis: Wild Boy and his pal Keeto battle a maddened gorilla to defeat the evil plans of Zabba, the witch doctor.
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In Content Item: FlagApproved Comics #3 published April 1954
as The Witch Doctor [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Paul Hodge is credited to Wild Boy on pencils and ink by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and compared with signed work in various Marvel comics, this must be him.
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House ad

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Skypilot No. 11
Character(s): Skypilot, "Fighting Missionary of the Far North"
Synopsis: Full page color house ad for Skypilot No. 11, "Now On Sale!" "What sinister motive lies behind the attack on the supply sled? Why do vicious men plot the destruction of a peaceful Eskimo village? What can SKYPILOT do? Can he outwit and outfight the evildoers? Can he deliver the food and medicine the Eskimos need for surVival? -- or will blazing bullets bring him down in frozen death somewhere along the peril-laden trail of the BLIZZARD CHASE!"
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Pages: 1
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Star of the Jungle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Hodge
Inker(s): Paul Hodge
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Wild Boy
Character(s): Wild Boy; Keeto, his friend; Timba, his panther; Kaw, his falcon; Fred Cartier, a filmmaker; Lola Martin, the film's female star; the Kamokos, a hostile pygmy tribe; Zarkow, a renegade white trader
Synopsis: Wild Boy and a filmcrew are captured by Zarkow and his hostile pygmies.
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In Content Item: FlagApproved Comics #3 published April 1954
as Star of the Jungle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Same art as the preceding story.
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Fire When Ready

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Dave Moss; Abu Sidi; M'Bongo
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In Content Item: FlagApproved Comics #3 published April 1954
as Fire When Ready [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Jungle Drum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Joe Barton; Mr. Parmalee; Nan Parmalee; Hathaway
Synopsis: Joe Barton leads a safari in the jungles of Congo.
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In Content Item: FlagApproved Comics #3 published April 1954
as Jungle Drum [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The faces in close up looking backwards, and with arched eyebrows are like Novick's work.

The inking by Sachs match his credited work in early Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #3.
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The Return

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Hodge
Inker(s): Paul Hodge
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Wild Boy
Character(s): Wild Boy; chief of the Kowi tribe; his nephew Jogo; Koller, Jogo's white friend
Synopsis: The chief's nephew, Jogo, returns to the jungle to drive a diamond mine that only brings misery to his people.
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In Content Item: FlagApproved Comics #3 published April 1954
as The Return [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Same art as on the other Wild Boy stories in this issue.

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