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Jungle Comics #5
| Additional Information | |
| Publication | May 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Editing: Malcolm Reiss (Editor); William E. Eisner (Art Director); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor) |
| Cover | Empire Of The Ape Men |
| Featuring | Kaänga |
| Credits | Pencils: Will Eisner | Inks: Will Eisner | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga |
| Comic Story | Empire of the Ape-Men ["Once again, the arch enemy of Kaänga strikes..."] (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Kaänga |
| Credits | Script:? [as Red Bradey] | Pencils: George Tuska | Inks: George Tuska |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Sam Broot (villain); Ann (Ann's first "bathing suit" appearance.) |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover blurb. Sam Broot is miscolored as a Caucasian. |
| Comic Story | "Deep in the jungle stands a group of..." (5 pages) |
| Featuring | The Red Panther |
| Credits | Script:? [as Taylor Martin] | Pencils: Arthur Peddy? |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: The Red Panther; The Ant Woman (introduction, villain, death) |
| Notes | If this is Peddy, it is very diluted. |
| Comic Story | "No power on earth is as great as..." (7.75 pages) |
| Featuring | Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle |
| Credits | Script:? [as Robert Lewis] | Pencils: George Carl Wilhelms? | Inks: George Carl WIlhelms? |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tabu; The Zsingos (introduction, villain, death) |
| Filler | Strange Case of Ezra Ark: Case 3: File 1: Clue 2 |
| Credits | Pencils: Bob Powell? |
| Content | Genre: Mystery |
| Comic Story | "Restoring the eternal fountain of youth, Camilla rules..." (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Camilla |
| Credits | Script:? [as Tad Carter] | Pencils: Bob Powell | Inks: Bob Powell;? |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Camilla; Lief Thorgson (introduction, villain, death); Count Knuten (introduction, villain); Count Knuten's cousin (introduction, villain) |
| Text Story | Death of the Laughing Terror (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Lin Davies] | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Ran-Tog |
| Comic Story | "The masked arrows, a band of thieving natives..." (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Captain Terry Thunder |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Bossert | Inks: Bill Bossert?; Leonard Frank? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Terry Thunder; The Masked Arrows (introduction, villain, death) |
| Comic Story | "We'll find plenty of tuskers in there..." (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
| Credits | Script:? [as Roy L. Smith] | Pencils: Henry Kiefer | Inks: Henry Kiefer?;? |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Wambi; Wolf Lawsen (introduction, villain, death) |
| Comic Story | "Angered savage tribes, whipped to fierce action by..." (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Roy Lance |
| Credits | Script:? [as Harold Morley] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Roy Lance |
| Comic Story | "Simba approaches the water hole to slake..." (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Simba, King of the Beasts |
| Credits | Pencils: William M. Allison | Inks: William M. Allison |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Simba; John Mason; Dick Mason |
| Comic Story | "Fantomah, the most remarkable woman ever born, has..." [Mundoor and the Giant Reptiles] (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Discovering the eggs of giant reptiles on a fallen asteroid, Mundoor raises the reptiles in an attempt to take over the world. |
| Featuring | Fantomah |
| Credits | Script: Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] (signed) | Pencils: Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] (signed) | Inks: Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] (signed) | Letters: Fletcher Hanks |
| Content | Genre: Jungle; Occult | Characters: Fantomah; Mundoor (introduction, villain) |
| Notes | The first lines of text read: "Fantomah, the most remarkable woman ever born, has such keen insight that she foresees all the events of jungle life. Through her strange wizardry, she guards the jungle's secrets and avenges the evil deeds against the jungle-born........" |
| Filler | "You're lucky - my doctor says I can only..." |
| Featuring | Jungle Roars |
| Credits | Script:? [as Lore] |
| Content | Genre: Gags |
| Filler | A Jungle Tale |
| Featuring | Prof. Dunk |
| Credits | Pencils: Will Eisner? [as Heck?] | Inks: Will Eisner? [as Heck?] | Letters:? |
| Content | Genre: Gags |
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