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Issue: Jungle Comics #7 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1940
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Issues: #7 of 163 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Glen Kel Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/13/1940
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: Scan & some info supplied by Al Dellinges thanks to Henry R. Kujawa's report to GCD error list.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
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Disclose Format
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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Live Sacrifice

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Kaänga; Ann Mason
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Pages: 1
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First Line: Easy money for you!
Synopsis: An in-house promotional advertisement soliciting advertising copy from readers who are to send in their copy along with four coupons from Fiction House comics.
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Pages: 1
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Live Sacrifice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Red Bradey]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Kaänga; Red Longjohn (introduction); Romey (introduction, villain); the Monkey Men (introduction, villains, death); Ann Mason; Lethor (lion)
First Line: A search for the lost valley into whose depths many an adventurer has vanished,...
Synopsis: Kaänga guides an explorer to a lost valley inhabited by descendents of ancient Romans and cannibalistic monkey me.
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Pages: 10
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Taylor Martin]
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): The Red Panther
Character(s): The Red Panther; Boku (introduction, villain, death)
First Line: Black beady-eyed vultures circle around an isolated part of the jungle.
Synopsis: The Panther restores a deposed chief to his position in his village.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Ted Carter]
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Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Camilla; Caredodo [becomes Sir Champion] (guest); Mephistopheles (introduction, villain); Temptation (introduction, villain); Satan (introduction, villain); The Angel of Faith (introduction)
First Line: After her narrow escape from the salt mines...
Synopsis: Camilla and Caredodo brave the Cave of Sighs, the entrance to the supernatural underworld. Captured by Satan, Camilla carves a crosses that repulses the monster. The Angel of Faith rescues them and rewards Caredodo by transforming him from an ugly hunchback into a tall, handsome knight. Camilla dubs him "Sir Champion" and makes him her prime minister.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Courtney Thomason]
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Roy Lance
Character(s): Roy Lance; Prof. Manners (introduction); Faith Manners (introduction); Joe Manners (introduction, villain); Champ (gorilla)
First Line: The jungle lust for gold drives brother against brother in combat as savage as the primitive beasts and natives!
Synopsis: Joe Manners captures his explorer brother and plans to murder him to secure his inheritance. Roy attempts to rescue the explorer and only succeeds with the assistance of a tribe of giant gorillas.
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Pages: 6
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The Claw of Simba

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Bob Clark]
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Ran-Tog
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: jungle, science fiction
Character(s): Fantomah
First Line: She has discovered a plot by crooks to enslave the inhabitants of a native village...
Synopsis: A group of criminals enslave a village in Fantomah's jungle in order to use them as labor in a diamond mine. Fantomah frees the slaves and takes the four criminals to the Secret Pit of Jungle Horrors where she transforms the four into one man and abandons him to his horrible fate.
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In Content Item: FlagI Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! #[nn] published June 2007
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: jungle, nature
Feature(s): Simba, King of the Beasts
Character(s): Simba
First Line: Simba, out for a stroll along a favorite trail...
Synopsis: A wounded Simba makes friends with a wounded white girl, lost from her safari. Simba escorts her back to her father where they discover that the father is being tortured by criminals looking for his stash of gold. Simba rescues the man but then he, the father, and the daughter fall into a tiger trap and the criminals begin to bury them alive. Simba call on his animal subjects to rescue them.
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Terry Thunder of the Congo Lancers
Character(s): Captain Terry Thunder; Gloria Frazier; Abou Ben Ali (introduction, villain); Kismet (camel); Slim Lennon; Tubs Hedge; Sahabid
First Line: Miss Gloria Frazier's visit to Terry's fort is nearly over.
Synopsis: Gloria is tricked into a treasure hunt by an Arab merchant who then kidnaps her. Terry rescues her and his two men that he ordered to accompany her on her hunt.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle
Character(s): Tabu; the wind-god (introduction, villain); a witch doctor (introduction); Sirocco
First Line: A terrible wind, blowing over Africa, turns villages into a shambles and bends century old trees to the ground...
Synopsis: To prevent the destruction of a village, Tabu imprisons a wind spirit. This angers the wind god who sends terrible storms, lightning, and a tornado to the village. Tabu agrees to release the spirit if the god will never attack the village again. The god agrees. Once the winds are gone, the villagers discover that their valley is no longer fertile. Tabu transforms four slain elephants into banana, coconut, and breadfruit trees.
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Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Stan Johnson]
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Genres: informational, jungle, nature, non-fiction
Feature(s): Jungle Facts
First Line: In daylight, lions will not attack unprovoked.
Synopsis: Folklore regarding lions and elephants.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Character(s): Wambi; the provincial governor (introduction); the governor's wife (introduction); Kathy (the governor's daughter) (introduction); Kaga (crocodile); Toga; Ongagis (African tribe); Tawn (elephant); Rouma (lion); Kaa (python); Core (condor); Ogg (ape); Dirk
First Line: In the midst of a laughing water game, Wambi hears a strange sound...
Synopsis: The provincial governor's daughter is kindapped and held for ransom, but she is rescued by Wambi and his jungle friends.
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Pages: 7
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: if you want quality comic magazines -- look for the bull's-eye when you buy!
Synopsis: An in-house promotional advertisement for Fiction House's Planet Comics, Fight Comics, and Jumbo Comics.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: This beautiful desk for only $1.00
Synopsis: An advertisement for the Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter from Remington Rand, Incorporated. Purchases of the typewriter may also buy a desk for one dollar.
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Disclose Notes: back cover

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