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Issue: Jungle Comics #42 Public Domain
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
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Indicia Publisher: Glen-Kel Pub. Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/21/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): John C. Mitchell
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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Master of the Moon-Beasts

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Dan Zolnerowich; Ruben Moreira
Dan Zolnerowich; Ruben Moreira
?
typeset
Subject Matter
jungle
Kaänga
Kaänga; Ann Mason
Reprinting
FlagJungle Comics #18 published June 1941
was Trap of the Tawny Killer [Illustration on Cover, Front]with modifications, see note
 
Miscellaneous
1
The cover is a signed Zolnerowich image reprinted from the cover of Jungle Comics #18 with Kaänga's head redrawn by Moreira and Zolnerowich's signature removed.
Master of the Moon-Beasts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Frank Riddell] (credited)
Reed Crandall
Reed Crandall
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Kaänga
Kaänga; N'geeso; Ann Mason; Adouba; Taluva; Zeti; Jaeckel
A rhinoceros stampede leads Kaänga to a moon worshiping cult in the Mountains of the Moon. Ann is kidnapped by the white man who manipulates the natives cult. He intends to substitute her for his daughter, whom the natives believe to be the goddess, Tluva, kill her, and then revive her by replacing Ann's body with the live Taluva. Taluva is not made aware of the scheme and takes Ann's place before the execution and is killed by her father.
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Miscellaneous
14
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

first line: "Terror seethes over the grim walls of a jungle temple..."

Frank Riddell is a by-line used at Fiction House.

Traditionally the inks have been credited to Moreira, but according to Robert Barrett, Reed Crandall indicated to him that these were his own inks.

Crandall art credits confirmed in Alter Ego #129 (November, 2014) by Alberto Bacattini.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Ed Hunt]
Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi] (signed)
Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Simba, King of Beasts
Simba
A small child toddles away from his mother, and before anyone is aware of it, he thrashes about, drowning in the river!
Simba saves a chief's son from drowning and then protects the village from thieving baboons.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Roy L. Smith]
Henry Kiefer
Henry Kiefer
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Wambi; Tawn; Ogg; Maya; Akmar
The woman was young and beautiful and cruel...
Wambi and his jungle friends drive a cruel prince's hunting caravan from the jungle.
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Miscellaneous
10
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as W. B. Hovious]
George Appel (signed)
George Appel (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Fantomah, Daughter of the Pharoahs
Hakoan; Fantomah; Fury; Sheb
A courageous explorer, Hakoan, returns to Khefra with tales of an amazing new land beyond the hills...
Khefra claims new land and battles cannibals and pirates to keep it.
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Miscellaneous
7
The Madman's Ape

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Buck Stanley]
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
jungle
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Pierre La Rue]
Robert Webb
Jack Kamen ?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Captain Terry Thunder
Terry Thunder; Raina; Anderson the Arab
In the native settlement of Baou, a village bordering on Captain Thunder's fortress...
Nazis persuade an African village to store fuel for them. Terry and the lancers capture the Germans.
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Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Victor Ibsen]
Art Saaf
Art Saaf
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Camillla
Camilla; Ellen DaCosta; Trader Davis; DaCosta; Zugos (African tribe); John
Death in a thousand forms lurks behind every twist and turn of the dark jungle trails...
An animal trapper named DaCosta takes the contract that has been issued on Camilla's life by those trying to steal her inheritance. He and his partner are killed when they create an animal stampede at Trader Davis's.
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Miscellaneous
10

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