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Issue: Jungle Girls Retro Comics #4
Publication Date: January 1997
 
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Issues: #4 of 1 Issue
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: AC Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $5.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 13 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: 6.75" x 8.5"
Paper Stock: Cardstock cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Character(s): Tara
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Pages: 1
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Irish McCalla-TV's Sheena

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Irish McCalla [as Sheena]; McCalla Enterprises
Character(s): Sheena
Synopsis: Advertisement for Sheena photos, art work (by Irish McCalla) and other memoribilia from McCalla Enterprises.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Black and white.
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Lair of the Beast-Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Character(s): Tara Fremont; Darkshade; Roger Brant [Darkshade]; T.C. Fremont; Janis Lawson; Charles Lambert
Synopsis: T.C. Fremont offers Roger Brant a job designing brochures and ads for the Dark Continent. Tara searches for Charles Lambert and Janis Lawson, caretakers for The Dark Continent who are missing. She follows a scream to where she finds Janis being attacked by a giant octopus. Janis is pulled into an underwater cave and Tara follows. There she is attacked by beast-men who say that Janis has been chosen to be a human sacrifice. After they take Janis away Charles shows up and frees Tara, who goes after the beast-men and catches up to Janis just as she is being by the giant octopus.
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: This story is based on the Tara story in Paragon Presents (AC, 1970 series) #2 (1970). This part of the story is based on the story Dark Continent and the first nine pages of Lair of the Beast-Men!
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Retro Readers Write!

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Fighting Yank
Synopsis: Letters are printed from Matthew Wieczork, Charles Sperling and Jim Johnstone. Also includes answers to each letter and a drawing of Fighting Yank.
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Pages: 1
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Chapter Two 'Into the Jaws of the Sea Beast'

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Character(s): Tara; Janis Lawson; Charles Lambert; Randall Crowley (death); Darkshade
Synopsis: Tara jumps in to try to save Janis Lawson but she is also eaten. However, it turns out that the giant octopus is electronic and is operated by Randall Crowley, who also controls the Beast-men. He plans to kill the animals on the Dark Continent to sell their pelts. When Darkshade enters Randall's subconscious, he brings the spirits of the animals that Randall has killed and he goes mad. He thinks that the animals he has killed are going to kill while trying to escape he falls over the cliff and is impaled on one of the skinning hooks.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: This story is based on the Tara story in Paragon Presents (AC, 1970 series) #2 (1970). This part of the story is based on the last seven pages of Lair of the Beast-Men!
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The Cursed Land!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Camilla; Fang; Bill Grange (introduction, villain, death); Si (introduction, villain, death); N'Louga (introduction, villain, death); Bess Merrill (introduction); Chief Kolo (introduction)
Synopsis: Bill Grange has discovered that there is Radium in the area so he decides to drive out the pygmies. He bribes the evil witch doctor N'Louga to pronounce a curse upon the land. They then lure jackals to the area with hidden meat and release a gas that causes hallucinations. This convinces everyone that the land is cursed but Camilla is convinced it was a trick. She takes Chief Kolo with her and they go after the witch doctor. The tribe follows and kills Bill Grange and the witch doctor when they attack Chief Kolo.
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From Content Item: FlagJungle Comics #102 published June 1948
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]in black and white
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Pages: 8
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Retrotorial

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Camilla
Synopsis: An editorial discussing the various jungle women who have starred in comics.
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Pages: 1
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On the Island of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Nyoka; Larry Grayson
Synopsis: Larry Grayson is assigned the job of staying on an uninhabited island for a week to determine if it is suitable for a navy base. Nyoka reluctantly leaves him there but talks to him by radio each day. A few days into the week, Larry determines that monsoons happen often over this island and reports that it is not suitable for a base.
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From Content Item: FlagMaster Comics #110 published December 1949
was Nyoka the Jungle Girl on the Island of Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]in black and white; originally in color
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Pages: 7
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All Hero Retro Comics Annual #1

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Black Owl; The Flame; Green Mask; Pyroman; Black Cobra; U.S. Jones; Black Venus
Synopsis: Promo for All Hero Retro Comics Annual #1, including a reprint of the cover.
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Pages: 0.84
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AC's Jungle Girl Series

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Listing of all the Jungle Girl Comics with the stars appearing in each.
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Pages: 0.16
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Jungle Girl

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Camilla; Fang; K'Bali (death); Senga (death)
Synopsis: Camilla hears that Senga (an evil Zombi queen that reportedly can not die) has declared that K'Bali must die. She rescues K'Bali from a leopard and sends a message that K'Bali will tell Senga's secrets. Senga kidnaps him and gives K'Bali a knife and tell him to kill her so that she can prove that she can't be killed. K'Bali is suddenly paralyzed and falls into a pit and is killed by wild beasts. Camilla figures that the weapon must have been poisoned and challenges Senga to a fight. Senga dies when Camilla dodges and she falls into the same pit that K'Bali fell into.
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From Content Item: FlagKaänga Comics #12 published January 1952
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]this modified version
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: This story was made using panels from the Camilla story "What evil curse was on K'bali?" in Jungle Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #91 (July 1947). The story itself is considerably different.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Sheena
Synopsis: Sheena pinup from 1940.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Black and white.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Nyoka
Synopsis: Nyoka pinup.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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