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Issue: Jungle Comics #40 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1943
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Issues: #40 of 163 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand: Fiction House MagazinesView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Glen Kel Pub. Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/05/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S. (early issues); standard Silver Age U.S. (later issues)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Killer Plague

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Kaänga; Ann Mason
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Pages: 1
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Killer Plague

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Varez (introduction, villain, death); Garez (introduction, villain); Zomdi (introduction, villain); Zulus (introduction, villain); Zulus (African tribe); N'geeso; Ann Mason; Kaänga
First Line: The wanton killing of men and beasts arouses the jungle lord...
Synopsis: A white hunter has set up a rendering plant and is indiscriminately killing men and animals to feed the vat of boiling fat.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, nature
Feature(s): Simba, King of Beasts
Character(s): Kagu (ape)(introduction, villain, death); Simba
First Line: Early morning in a sleepy African border town -- a traveling carnival parked on the town's green stirs lazily...
Synopsis: Simba kills an escaped circus ape.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Character(s): Kuda (introduction); Wambi; Ogg; Numa (lion); Maggo (macaw); Lupa (wolf); Tawn
First Line: As disastrous as the ravaging of the holocaust in a blazing jungle inferno is the brewing of distrust...
Synopsis: The jungle animals believe that Wambi is responsible for a forest fire that endangers them all.
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Pages: 10
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The Scorpion!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): The Scorpion Cult of Kta (introduction, villains, death); high priest of Kta (introduction, villain, death); Fantomah; Horus; Fury
Synopsis: The cult of the scorpion god, Kata, comes to Khefra to establish a temple.
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Terry Thunder
Character(s): Bedouins (villains); Terry Thunder; Anderson the Arab; Kismet; Vincent
First Line: Bedouins...Africa's craftiest, deadliest nomad tribe -- strike again...
Synopsis: Terry receives word that a nearby outpost is being besieged by Bedouins and rides with his lancers to the rescue. However, it is a trap and Terry and his men are captured and then rescued by Andy and the gang.
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Pages: 7
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The Jungle Empress

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Tom O'Neill]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
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Pages: 3
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Mackenzie]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle
Character(s): Magla (introduction, villain, death); The Zugos (African tribe)(introduction); Timo (rhinoceros)
First Line: Deep in the jungle, strange companions march silently side by side...
Synopsis: A white woman with a trained rhinoceros steals the idol of the Zugos. Tabu recovers the statue and returns it.
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Camilla
Character(s): Trader Davis; Josephine Jordan (introduction); Jim Rodney (introduction); Akkua (introduction); Silkidor (introduction, villain, death); Moko (introduction, villain, death); Camilla; Obogos (African tribe)
First Line: The message a harmless note...but between its lines was doom for Queen Camilla!
Synopsis: Josephine Jordan, Camilla's cousin (unknown to both Josephine and Camilla), is in the jungle with attorney Jim Rodney to try and learn the fate of Josephine's uncle, Camilla's father. She is kidnapped by a European criminal and rescued by Camilla with help from the Obongos.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: The previous indexer credited the art to Nick Cardy, but Tony Rose has strong reservations regarding that identification, 03-09-2015.

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