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| wow given the necessary suspension of disbelief it takes me to even read these golden age jungle stories ....... it still was a jawdropper at the end of the sheena story to see that bob and sheena didn't bother to even plan to rescue their enslaved friends they were too busy kissing ?? maybe next issue,,, |
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| Curiously,
no art credits on this book. Cover is spectacular. The eyes and face on the woman at bottom right make me think Eisner. Given that 'Willis B Rensie' (spell it backwards) is in fact Eisner - and his studio was packaging these books at the time, that is probably him.
I have never understood why, in these 'Additional Information' boxes, - from GCD? - someone goes to the trouble of listing every individual character, even in standalone stories where the character appears only once and then is gone forever. Even in Romances, War stories, Horror stores. Why bother? I want to know the names of the creators and only the characters names if they are headliners, or if there is some narrative reason to note their appearance in a particular story.
cheers! |
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| I'd say the cover was definitely Eisner, one of the giveaways is the pirate halfway up the mast carrying a knife in his teeth, an image seen in many a Spirit story. Nice work, Will! |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | February 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every month |
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| Cover | Buccaneer Vengeance |
| Featuring | The Hawk |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: The Hawk |
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| Comic Story | The Captive Tigress (11 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Pasha Kamur; Abu Cred; Sheena; Chim; Beda; Bob; Karen |
| Notes | story title is from cover |
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| Featuring | Peter Pupp |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Peter Pupp; Tinymite; Shortbred |
| Notes | Briefer's a wild guess, but Hunchback is finished and he was probably doing SOMETHING. |
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| Comic Story | Buccaneer Vengeance (12 pages) |
| Featuring | The Hawk |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: The Hawk; Jeremy; Rocco; Jose Mantilla; Tonda [called Tito later on]; Maria Mantilla; Caleb; Sagua |
| Notes | title is from the cover |
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| Featuring | Wilton of the West |
| Credits | Script:? [as Fred Sande] |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Wilton; Snorty; Tokanas |
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| Text Story | Thunder God (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Ken Hammond |
| Credits | Script: Lin Davies |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Ken Hammond; Dick Walsh, the Leopard Man; Basuta; Nikki-Tikki |
| Notes | previous page has "Winners of the October-November '39 Jumbo Comics Contest." |
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| Featuring | Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Scarpo; Queen Lenore; the devil |
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| Featuring | ZX-5 Spies In Action |
| Credits | Script:? [as Major Thorpe] |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Mr. Heil; Yum Ling [daughter of Genghis Khan] |
| Notes | "Powell-Henkel" - same as in #11. Bob Powell and others, possibly Henkel or Frollo. |
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| Comic Story | Terror Grips City As Voters Are Beaten Up (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Spencer Steel |
| Credits | Pencils:? [shop work] |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Joe the Dip; Slugger; Hunky Joe; Mack; Bull Gordon |
| Notes | If Dennis Colebrook (or Colbrook) is a real person, there is every reason to believe that he is NOT the person doing this strip at this time. Perhaps some Tuska involvement? |
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| Featuring | Inspector Dayton |
| Credits | Script:? [as George Thatcher] |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sgt. McGee; Igor Brudd; Ronald Harmon; Big Joe |
| Notes | Another questionable ID, probably a shop job with traces of others, too. Hames sees definite Powell and possible Beorge Brenner involvement. |
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| Featuring | Count of Monte Cristo |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Madame Villefort; Monsieur Villefort; Fouché; Baron Danglars; Haydee [daughter of Ali Pasha] |
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