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| The Jungle Lore strip is definitely by George Evans. I own the original art to the first page and on the back of it, Evans drew some airplanes, his signature passion. |
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| Publication | June 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | Skulls for the Altar of Doom! |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Ann Mason |
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| Comic Story | Skulls for the Altar of Doom! (9.8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Treasure hunters Riggan and Slade want to capture Ann to offer her to a tribe of white women for sacrifice to their god. To this end, Slade disguises himself as a witch doctor and lures Ann away from the N'logas' village. Kaänga and N'geeso follow and rescue Ann |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; N'tiga; Ann Mason; Riggan; N'logas (African tribe); Natu; Slade; N'geeso; Marmo (elephant) |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
The bottom fifth of the final page is taken up by an advertisement. |
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| Synopsis | Mrs. Simba, responding to the cries of a water buffalo being killed by Cape dogs, is believed by the buffalo herd to be the killer herself. Simba searches for clues to her innocence and is given a bit of dog fur from the scene of the crime by a mole. Simba uses that to prove to the buffalo the identity of the real killers and the buffalos track down the dogs and kill them. |
| Featuring | Simba, King of Beasts |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Jungle | Characters: Simba; Mrs. Simba; Simba Jr |
| Notes | Froehlich signs on the final page. |
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| Synopsis | Trivia regarding the uses of various spiders, insects, and lizards of the jungles. |
| Featuring | Jungle Lore |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Jungle; Nature |
| Notes | Saltarella disagrees with the George Evans credit, saying specifically that the second page doesn't look like his work. Instead he suggests that this is Mike Peppe pencils and inks. (December 2013). |
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| Synopsis | Terry and Keeto escort a young woman into the interior to find her father and his partner and to see their land claim. The partner, Wrenne, having killed the girl's father, is collecting tribute from villagers with threats of death at the hands of a gorilla idol. Terry destroys the idol and Wrenne is killed. |
| Featuring | Captain Terry Thunder |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Terry Thunder; Keeto; Liza Kain; Koto; Wrenne |
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| Text Story | Thirst (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Captain Terry Thunder |
| Credits | Script:? [as Pierre La Rue] | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Synopsis | A royal brother and sister come to Wambi's jungle seeking a lost gem. Wambi finds it but greed turns the brother and sister against each other and they are then killed by their trained leopard. Wambi tosses the gem into the river. |
| Featuring | Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Wambi; Ogg; Khastra |
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| Comic Story | Traps (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Brief descriptions of several kinds of traps. |
| Featuring | Jungle Lore |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Jungle |
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| Synopsis | Cut throat geologist Neale is working with a lion cult to locate a rare rock specimen. Tabu [puts a stop to the cults murdering ways and sees Neale killed by a lion. |
| Featuring | Tabu |
| Credits | Script:? [as Mack] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tabu; Gordon; N'tara; Neale; lion cultists; K'tonga |
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| Synopsis | Ruthless hunter Curtis captures a sacred white leopard and, through trickery, makes it appear that the leopard will not attack him, thus making him holy to the natives. Camilla exposes the fraud and Curtis is killed by the leopard. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Camilla; N'kani; Jim Brent; Alice Brent; Obantis (African tribe); Curtis; Fang (dog) |
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