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Issue: Feature Stories Magazine #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1950
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Hero Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
Disclose Notes: Indicia (scan from bipcomics.com):
FEATURE STORIES MAGAZINE (formerly FEATURE PRESENTATIONS MAGAZINE) August, 1950, No. 3. Published bi-monthly by Hero Books, Inc., 221 Conyngham Ave., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Executive offices at 60 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. Application for entry as second class matter pending. Price 10 cc per copy. Yearly subscription in the United States and its possessions, Mexico, South America, Spain, 75c including postage. $1.50 elsewhere. The publisher accepts no responsibility for unsolicited material. Copyright 1950 by Hero Books, Inc. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. Any similarity between any of the names of persons or places appearing in this magazine (except those based on history or fact) with actual persons or places is not intended and is purely coincidental.
Printed in U.S.A.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
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?
Subject Matter
jungle
Jungle Lil; Jo-Jo ?
Reprinting
FlagFeature Stories Magazine #35 (3) published September 1950
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Map of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
Jungle Lil
Carol Drake; Jungle Lil; Robi; Carleton (villain, death); Chief Sungo
Treacherous guide Carleton kills Dr. Drake and chases his daughter Carol for a treasure map.
Reprinting
FlagJungle Lil #1 published April 1950
was Betrayer of the Kombe Dead!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]under the title: "The Map of Death"
 
Miscellaneous
10
Games of Havoc

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jack Kamen
Jack Kamen
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Zegra
Mac (villain, death); Bette (villain, death); Jimmy Mason; Zegra
Tired of small heists, Mac and Bette kidnap Jimmy Mason. They kidnap two more children and pose as professors leading the children on a tour in the Congo while their confederate in New York City waits for the Mason ransom. Mac realizes Bette plans to double-cross him and shoots her, then is killed by a wart hog. Zegra contacts the Commissioner to have the kidnappers' contact arrested and the children returned to their parents.
Reprinting
FlagZegra #5 published April 1949
was Games of Havoc! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
9
Sacred Jewel

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
adventure, jungle
O'Hara; MacLaren; Duchess (Mlle. X); Ngami; Francois
A woman, who will not give her name but MacLaren calls Duchess, hires him and O'Hara in Matadi to take her in search of an emerald. They discover the emerald is her dowry, carried by her fiancé.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
I believe Ingoo refers to Iguéla Lagoon in present-day Gabon.
Lands of the Mandrill Queen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Joe Orlando
Wally Wood [as Wallace Wood]
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Jungle Lil
Dr. Stark; Bart; Jungle Lil; Robi; Sharu (villain, death)
Bart brings Dr. Stark to Jungle Lil for help finding a root said to cure many diseases. They are captured by a tribe ruled by Sharu, who maintains her reign with man-sized mandrills, and sentenced to be sacrificed to an octopus. Rebels help them escape and Sharu is killed by her octopus.
Reprinting
FlagGood Girl Comics #18 published January 1995
as Lands of the Mandrill Queen [Story on Interior Page(s)]-1 page
 
Miscellaneous
10

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