| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Every month |
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| Cover | Safari into Shadowland |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga |
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| Comic Story | Safari into Shadowland (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Criminals drive out the workers of a diamond mine and bring in their own natives to work the mine. Kaänga, together with a group of black-maned lions, restores the mine to its rightful owners. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Red Bradey] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Jim Gorr (introduction, villain); Mogo |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
Throughout this story, Kaänga's name is spelled without the dieresis. |
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| Synopsis | After a savage tribe wipes out a group of missionaries, the Panther sees to it that they are punished by a flood that leaves their leader dead. |
| Featuring | The Red Panther |
| Credits | Script:? [as Taylor Martin] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: The Red Panther |
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| Synopsis | A group of scientists are stricken with a plague after they open an ancient Egyptian tomb in the jungle. Tabu goes to a lost ancient Egyptian outpost for a cure. At the outposts, the descendants of the Egyptians force Tabu to battle and defeat a group of degenerate ratmen and a giant serpent before they give him the cure for the plague. |
| Featuring | Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tabu; ratmen (introduction, villains); a band of Egyptians (introduction, villains); Dr. Denman Falls |
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| Synopsis | With the aid of a band of gorillas, Camilla and her army repulse an attack by a medieval Asian army. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Ted Carter] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Camilla; Sir Champion; Goro (a gorilla)(introduction); Kato Tah-Kee (introduction, villain, death) |
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| Text Story | The Dark Horde (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Bob Clark] | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Ran-Tog |
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| Synopsis | Yak-ho and his savage tribe attack the peaceful Kadahs. Terry uses a stick of chewing gum as a bribe to stop the attacks, but later must exorcise the evil spirit of the gum with a piece of jewelry. |
| Featuring | Captain Terry Thunder of the Congo Lancers |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Terry Thunder; Yak-Ho (introduction, villain); Kismet (camel) |
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| Synopsis | The Ingas, weakened by disease, are attacked by the Kurgas. Wambi goes to the military outpost to get both military and medical assistance. |
| Featuring | Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Wambi; The Inga tribe (introduction); Hoag (hawk); Decca (zebra); Ogg (ape); Pan (leopard); Kara (chimpanzee); Tawn (elephant); Dr. Wade |
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| Synopsis | Roy helps a diamond mine owner find his mine with the aid of the thieves who stole the map to the mine. |
| Featuring | Roy Lance |
| Credits | Script:? [as Courtney Thomason] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Roy Lance; Mr. White; June White; Buono |
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| Synopsis | Simba rescues the pilot of a crashed airplane who is looking for his kidnapped fiance. With the help of Simba and some apes, he frees the girl and captures the kidnappers. |
| Featuring | Simba, King of the Beasts |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Jungle | Characters: Simba; Jack Williams (introduction); Ann (introduction); a group of kidnappers (introduction, villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Strange Aardvark; The Bird of Paradise (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A brief natural history of the aardvark and the bird of paradise. |
| Featuring | Jungle Facts |
| Credits | Script:? [as Stan Johnson] |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Jungle; Nature |
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| Synopsis | When Mr. X steals a mystical headpiece that causes a boiling mud-pit to overflow into the jungle, he is confronted by Fantomah who transforms him into a mud being and condemns him to live underground forever. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Fantomah; Mr. X (introduction, villain); volcano people (introduction) |
| Notes | First line of text reads: "Fantomah, the most remarkable woman ever known, has such keen insight that she can see all that happens in the jungle... she devotes her great abilities to protecting the jungle-born..." |
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