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Issue: Jungle Comics #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1940
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Issues: #4 of 163 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Glen Kel Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/05/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from previous issue.
Publication date of February 19, 1940 found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 449460.
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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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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagSupermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 #[nn] published February 2009 as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Kaänga
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Here Kaänga's name is spelled "Kaȧnga," with a dot, rather than the diaeresis.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Red Brady] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Kaänga; Sam Broot (villain); Ann Mason; Cheba (leopard)
First Line: The mighty white man of the jungle, Kaänga, is the only man feared by the ruthless Broot...
Synopsis: Kaänga and Ann are captured by Broot, who forces Kaänga to labor for him as an act of humiliation. Cheba rescues the pair and Broot and his mean are left in a tiger trap.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Taylor Martin] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): The Red Panther; two crooks (introduction, villain, death)
First Line: Two ex-convicts beat their way through the jungle...
Synopsis: The Panther prevents two lost criminals from plundering the pitchblende of a tribe in his jungle. As punishment, he rolls the men in the pitchblende and releases them. A week later he finds them dead of radiation poisoning.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Tabu; Tom Barton (introduction); the Bargonans (African tribe) (introduction, villains)
First Line: There's that jungle wizard, Tabu! Hello there!
Synopsis: Tabu rescues a naturalist from the Bargonans, who breed lion-leopard hybrids to eat their enemies.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6.75
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The Case of the Frightened Killer: Case 2: File A: Clue 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Bullseye Bannon
Character(s): Bullseye Bannon; Titus
Synopsis: The second clue in the murder mystery that is serialized across the Fiction House titles this month.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Located on the lower one quarter of the final 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 Burch; Camilla
First Line: Camilla, bemoaning the loss of the spring of her eternal youth and knowing her beauty and power are waning...
Synopsis: Camilla is exiled by her people for her cruelty. She encounters Jon and Ruth and transforms Jon into an ice statue and tells Ruth that if she will help her find the fountain of youth, Jon will be restored. Together they locate the fountain and Jon is returned to human form, and Camilla is once more restored to immortality. Sensing a change in Camilla, Jon and Ruth ask her people to return her to her throne and they agree.
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Pages: 7
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Son of the Lion

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Bob Clark] (credited)
Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Ron-tog (a jungle boy) (introduction)
First Line: Swinging through the interlaced tree-caverns...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Buck Johnson] (credited)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Captain Terry Thunder; the Ingaras (African tribe)
First Line: A fierce jungle tribe attacks the lonely outpost...
Synopsis: The Ingaras attack Fort Death and capture Terry's men. He barely escapes and makes his way to the next outpost to raise a rescue party.
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Miscellaneous
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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Thundering Herds

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Character(s): Wambi; Buck Larsen (villain, death); Tawn (elephant); Ogg (ape); Lupa (wolf); Kaa (python)
First Line: Buck Larsen, renegade, goes back to the scene of his recent defeat at the hands of Wambi...
Synopsis: Tawn and Ogg are captured by Larsen who plans to use them to lure Wambi to his death. Wambi and Lupa turn the tables on Larsen and free all the captured animals.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, nature
Character(s): Simba
First Line: A terrific storm is lashing the jungle...
Synopsis: During a terrific storm, two of Simba's cubs become trapped beneath a fallen tree. Simba seeks the help of an elephant to free them.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, occult
Character(s): Fantomah; The Doctor (villain, introduction, death); Mac (villain, introduction, death); group of four Gorgon Gorillas (villains, restored to normal)
First Line: She sees, in a far-off laboratory, a famous scientist...
Synopsis: Fantomah stops a mad scientist who has taken control of the gorillas in the jungle, using a serum to make them super-intelligent. As punishment, she allows the gorillas to rip him to pieces, and then restores them to normal intelligence.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagYou Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! #[nn] published June 2009
as The Super-Gorillas [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: First line of text reads: "Fantomah, the most remarkable woman ever known, has such strange powers and insight, that she foresees all that is to happen in connection with jungle life..."

The cover illustration and title of the 2009 Fantagraphics book "You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!" come from the last page of this story.

The authors of the reprint, who own the original art for this story, surmise from close examination of Fantomah's face on the splash page that "the editor probably had the face of Fantomah whited out and prettified from Fletcher Hanks' original rendering".
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Courtney Thomason] (credited)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Roy Lance; The Zungos (introduction, villains, some die); John Mitchell (introduction); Ellen Mitchell (introduction)
First Line: The young adventurous African explorer meets with more treachery...
Synopsis: Roy rescues his safari clients from the savage Zungos.
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Pages: 6

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