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Issue: Jungle Comics #97 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1948
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Issues: #97 of 163 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Glen-Kel Pub. Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Wizard of the Whirling Doom

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Kaänga; Ann Mason
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover is 'Doolin-esque' but unlikely to be by him.
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Wizard of the Whirling Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): D'Hama (introduction; villain; death); Bonako (introduction; death); Kaänga; Ann Mason; Sulakis (African tribe)
First Line: 'B-r-r-umbah! Hark to the juju demon drums!'
Synopsis: Kaänga and Ann visit the village of Tonga, where their friend Bonako is to celebrate his chieftanship by use of a ritual bow. The witch doctor, D'Hama, spoils the ceremony by poisoning the bowstring and causing an arrow to be shot from hiding, killing Bonako. Kaänga exposes the trick and D'Hama is killed by the tribe.
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Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Simba; N'gura (leopard)
First Line: The foolishness of man manifests itself in many ways...
Synopsis: When lightning starts a forest fire that traps many of the animals of his kingdom, Simba instructs the elephants in the building of a dam, in imitation of some natives he had seen earlier. The dam diverts the river, quenching the fire.
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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
Character(s): Gail (introduction); N'Muli (introduction; villain); Nuba (introduction; villain); Bwana One-Eye (introduction; villain); Terry Thunder; Trader Brown; Keeto
First Line: Di-bor Mon-Dombe! 'Juju devil wind,' the natives called this unseen terror...
Synopsis: Raiders take the jungle fever drugs that Terry had promised to the natives at N'gwando. He and the lancers, joined by the commissioner's daughter, steam upriver and take back the drugs.
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Pages: 7
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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): Mogawa (introduction; villain; death)(leopard); Wambi; Garno (deer); Chika (gibbon); Tawn; Ogg; Ahizar (cobra); Ragana (eagle); Laka (water buffalo); Sirdah (tiger)
First Line: Jungle law ruled ages ago that man hides more cunning than the jackal...
Synopsis: When a deer is accidentally killed through the discharge of a discarded rifle that he stumbles over, the animals all believe that Wambi has reverted to man's ways. It is only through the animals overhearing Mogawa describe what happened that Wambi is exonerated.
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Pages: 6
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No. 4: Richard Burton

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Men of Adventure
Synopsis: Sir Richard Burton biography.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Illustrated text story.
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Kraal of the Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Mack]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Karl (introduction; villain); Vera (introduction; villain; death); Zaraba (introduction); M'Buli (introduction; death); Tabu
Synopsis: Ivory hunters murder any natives who spy them stealing fossil ivory from a volcano-destroyed village. Tabu arrives and allows the criminals to be gored and stomped by draft oxen.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Sandra (introduction); Tibu (introduction); Neesi (introduction); Daniel Thompson (introduction; villain; death); Mansunis (introduction; villains); Camilla; Fang (dog)
First Line: Oil! The liquid gold that man eternally seeks...
Synopsis: Oil woman Sandra's partner, Thompson, attempts to prevent the filing of a joint deed to their oil claim in order to have it all for himself. Camilla exposes his plotting and Thompson is killed in an oil fire.
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In Content Item: FlagJungle Girls #4 published January 1992
as Oil! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8

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