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| Publication | March 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every month |
| Notes | Kaänga's name on the cover has no diaeresis (dots above either 'a'). |
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| Cover | Crocodiles of Death River |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga |
| Notes | Kaänga's name on the cover has no diaeresis (dots above either 'a'). |
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| Synopsis | A promotional encouraging encouraging readers to send in coupons from Fiction House comics and their solution to the Bannon mystery being serialized in the Fiction House comics this month in order to win a $25 prize and membership in the Junior Manhunters of America. |
| Content | Characters: Bullseye Bannon |
| Notes | inside front cover |
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| Comic Story | Crocodiles of Death River (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kaänga overthrows a fraudulent witch doctor. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Ann Mason; Sam Broot (introduction, villain); Mobu (introduction); Cheba (leopard) |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
Kaänga is now spelled with the dots over the second 'a'. |
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| Synopsis | The Panther prevents the sacrifice of a white miner to a native god. |
| Featuring | The Red Panther |
| Credits | Script:? [as Taylor Martin] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Red Panther; Randall (introduction); Miss Randall (introduction); a witch doctor (introduction, villain) |
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| Synopsis | A group of white criminals take over a village in Tabu's jungle to use as a haven from the law. Tabu kills them and restores the villagers' freedom. |
| Featuring | Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tabu; Blackwall (introduction, villain, death); Snake-Eye (introduction); Gog (monkey); Tegra (crocodile); Vilma Day |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Diamond Death: Case 1: File-A: Clue Two |
| Synopsis | The second clue in a murder mystery story story competition described on the inside front cover. |
| Featuring | Bullseye Bannon |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Bullseye Bannon |
| Notes | the bottom one fifth of the sixth page of the Tabu story. |
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| Synopsis | Exploring the ruins of Camilla's city, Jon and Ruth are taken captive by Camilla's men. Camilla again asks Jon to marry her. When he refuses, Camilla has Ruth thrown in a magic pool that ages her prematurely. Jon uses Camilla's fountain of youth to restore Ruth's youth and then destroys the fountain, insuring that Camilla will age. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle; Science Fiction | Characters: Jon Dale; Ruth Birch; Camilla (villain) |
| Notes | This story creates a sort of amalgam of the Camilla stories in the first two issues as back story. |
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| Text Story | The Crawling Death (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Pete Wentworth] | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle |
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| Synopsis | Terry and his men subdue a murderous, renegade tribe. |
| Featuring | Captain Terry Thunder |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Terry Thunder; Ben Salub (introduction, villain, death); Winters |
| Notes | Pencils/inks: Astarita didn't start working for Fiction House until 1942. (Noted by Darci via the error tracker). |
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| Synopsis | Ogg and Tawn rescue Wambi and Tarro when they are captured by hunters seeking animals for a circus. |
| Featuring | Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Buck Larsen (introduction, villain); Wambi; Fria (tigress); Tarro (tiger); Tia (cockatoo); Ogg (ape); Tawn (elephant); Klar (owl) |
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| Synopsis | Roy helps his friends the Wasangoras protect their cattle from raiders. |
| Featuring | Roy Lance |
| Credits | Script:? [as Courtney Thomason] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Roy Lance; Jujo |
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| Synopsis | Simba temporarily adopts a lost child who then saves the pride from hunters. Simba reunites the boy with his father and saves the father's safari from a rhinoceros. |
| Featuring | Simba, King of the Beasts |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Jungle | Characters: a boy (introduction); boy's father (introduction) |
| Notes | One half of final page is devoted to an advertisement. |
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| Synopsis | An advertisement seeking door-to-door magazine subscription salesmen for Cromwell-Collier Publishing Company with a Monarch Silver King bicycle as a premium. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | lower half of the last page of the Simba story |
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| Synopsis | Fantomah prevents the looting of a sacred jungle city by transforming the looters into hideous insect men and ordering them to return to civilization. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Fantomah; two hunters (villains, turned into insect-men) |
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| Synopsis | An in-house promotional advertisement for Fight Comics, Planet Comics, and Jumbo Comics. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | back cover |
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