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Issue: Jungle Comics #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1940
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Issues: #3 of 163 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Glen Kel Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/05/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from previous issue.
Publication date of January 15, 1940 found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 441853.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Crocodiles of Death River

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Kaänga
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Kaänga's name on the cover has no diaeresis (dots above either 'a').
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Bullseye Bannon
First Line: Calling all manhunters!
Synopsis: A promotional encouraging encouraging readers to send in coupons from Fiction House comics and their solution to the Bannon mystery being serialized in the Fiction House comics this month in order to win a $25 prize and membership in the Junior Manhunters of America.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside front cover
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Crocodiles of Death River

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Kaänga; Ann Mason; Sam Broot (introduction, villain); Mobu (introduction); Cheba (leopard)
First Line: After escaping from the island, Kaanga and Ann pause to rest in a sheltered place...
Synopsis: Kaänga overthrows a fraudulent witch doctor.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

Kaänga is now spelled with the dots over the second 'a'.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Taylor Martin]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): The Red Panther
Character(s): Red Panther; Randall (introduction); Miss Randall (introduction); a witch doctor (introduction, villain)
First Line: The Red Panther comes to the bottom of a steep waterfall.
Synopsis: The Panther prevents the sacrifice of a white miner to a native god.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle
Character(s): Tabu; Blackwall (introduction, villain, death); Snake-Eye (introduction); Gog (monkey); Tegra (crocodile); Vilma Day
First Line: A native village is thrown into wild confusion...
Synopsis: A group of white criminals take over a village in Tabu's jungle to use as a haven from the law. Tabu kills them and restores the villagers' freedom.
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Pages: 6.8
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The Case of the Diamond Death: Case 1: File-A: Clue Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bullseye Bannon
Character(s): Bullseye Bannon
Synopsis: The second clue in a murder mystery story story competition described on the inside front cover.
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Pages: 0.2
Disclose Notes: the bottom one fifth of the sixth page of the Tabu story.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, science fiction
Character(s): Jon Dale; Ruth Birch; Camilla (villain)
First Line: Jon Dale, with Ruth, is returning to explore the ruins of the lost empire...
Synopsis: Exploring the ruins of Camilla's city, Jon and Ruth are taken captive by Camilla's men. Camilla again asks Jon to marry her. When he refuses, Camilla has Ruth thrown in a magic pool that ages her prematurely. Jon uses Camilla's fountain of youth to restore Ruth's youth and then destroys the fountain, insuring that Camilla will age.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: This story creates a sort of amalgam of the Camilla stories in the first two issues as back story.
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The Crawling Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Pete Wentworth]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Captain Terry Thunder
Character(s): Terry Thunder; Ben Salub (introduction, villain, death); Winters
First Line: Nice work! Captain of an African outpost and nothing to do!
Synopsis: Terry and his men subdue a murderous, renegade tribe.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Pencils/inks: Astarita didn't start working for Fiction House until 1942. (Noted by Darci via the error tracker).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Character(s): Buck Larsen (introduction, villain); Wambi; Fria (tigress); Tarro (tiger); Tia (cockatoo); Ogg (ape); Tawn (elephant); Klar (owl)
First Line: To the jungle home of Wambi, young friend of all the beasts, comes the unscrupulous Buck Larson...
Synopsis: Ogg and Tawn rescue Wambi and Tarro when they are captured by hunters seeking animals for a circus.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Courtney Thomason]
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Roy Lance
Character(s): Roy Lance; Jujo
First Line: Roy Lance, famous African explorer, visits the peace-loving, cattle raising tribe o the Wasangora...
Synopsis: Roy helps his friends the Wasangoras protect their cattle from raiders.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, nature
Feature(s): Simba, King of the Beasts
Character(s): a boy (introduction); boy's father (introduction)
First Line: A small white boy, lost in the brush and weak from hunger, is staggering along a game trail.
Synopsis: Simba temporarily adopts a lost child who then saves the pride from hunters. Simba reunites the boy with his father and saves the father's safari from a rhinoceros.
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Pages: 5.5
Disclose Notes: One half of final page is devoted to an advertisement.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: A bike for you
Synopsis: An advertisement seeking door-to-door magazine subscription salesmen for Cromwell-Collier Publishing Company with a Monarch Silver King bicycle as a premium.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: lower half of the last page of the Simba story
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Fantomah; two hunters (villains, turned into insect-men)
First Line: ...by using her strange powers, she has discovered two white men planning to rob the jungle of its most sacred treasure...
Synopsis: Fantomah prevents the looting of a sacred jungle city by transforming the looters into hideous insect men and ordering them to return to civilization.
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In Content Item: FlagI Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! #[nn] published June 2007
as The City of Gold [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: For rip roaring action and adventure...
Synopsis: An in-house promotional advertisement for Fight Comics, Planet Comics, and Jumbo Comics.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: back cover

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