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| Fun, competently drawn jungle action, and an enormous scan. What really pushes it over the top is Fantomah: basically a knockoff of Rider Haggard's "She," with a dollop of creepy mysterioso. |
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| Publication | February 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every month |
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| Cover | Terror of the Bush |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga |
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| Synopsis | An promotion offering 11 aircraft prints for 4 coupons from Fiction House comics. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | inside front cover |
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| Comic Story | Terror of the Bush (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ann is kidnapped by the mad scientist, Dr. Wratt, who controls a group of man-apes through hypnotism. Kaänga rescues her and Dr. Wratt is killed by his man-apes during Kaänga and Ann's escape. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Red Bradey] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Dr. Wratt (introduction, villain, death); Dr. Wratt's man-apes (introduction, villain, death); Ann Mason; Tampi (elephant) |
| Notes | The location of the diaeresis (the two dots over the "a" in "Kaänga," vary between the cover and the story.
The story title is taken from the cover blurb. |
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| Synopsis | The Red Panther rescues a missionary and his daughter from their captor, the witch doctor Tortug. |
| Featuring | The Red Panther |
| Credits | Script:? [as Taylor Martin] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tortug (introduction, villain, death); a missionary (introduction); Joan (missionary's daughter) (introduction); Red Panther |
| Notes | In the previous issue, the Red Panther was referred to as the White Panther. |
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| Synopsis | The criminal Sanders kills an explorer for his map to the elephants' graveyard. Tabu leads the explorer's son to the graveyard where Tabu extracts revenge against the criminal. |
| Featuring | Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tabu; John Brooks; Jim Brooks; Sanders (introduction, villain, death); Spike (introduction, villain, death) |
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| Synopsis | Stanley, an ivory hunter, is captured by Camilla's guards. She asks him to join her and command her forces; when he refuses, she threatens to kill him with flexodium rays. Stanley uses the rays to destroy Camilla's city. Camilla refuses to leave the ruins. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle; Science Fiction | Characters: Capt. John Stanley (introduction); Camilla; Gaba |
| Notes | This is a re-working of the story from the previous issue. Here, Camilla said to be a descendant of Genghis Khan instead of Vikings and survives. |
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| Synopsis | A group of French Foreign Legionnaires mutinies during an attack by Arabs and Terry must overcome both groups of adversaries. |
| Featuring | Captain Terry Thunder of the Congo Lancers |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Terry Thunder; Le Jacque (introduction, villain, death); Krostoff (introduction, villain, death); Hienrach (introduction, villain, death); Vasacoff (introduction, villain, death); Saunders (introduction, villain, death) |
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| Synopsis | A slaver persuades a village to attack the local British garrison, believing that if the garrison can be destroyed, the slave trade will become easier. Wambi hurries to the next, larger garrison and brings back relief forces that drive away the natives. |
| Featuring | Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Ricco (villain); Wazee (introduction, villain); Wambi; Keeta (monkey); Tawn (elephant); Ogg (ape); Balu (leopard) |
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| Comic Story | The Revolt of the Black Continent (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dawambo unites all the savage tribes of central Africa in revolt against the European powers. John Abbot, a movie producer, takes his star, Joan Sarret, to Africa to shoot footage of the rebellion. Hunter Roy Lance acts as their guide. Their safari is captured by Dawambo and a combination of Lance's fists and Abbot's movie projector win them their freedom. |
| Featuring | Roy Lance |
| Credits | Script:? [as Courtney Thompson] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Roy Lance (introduction); John Abbott (introduction); Joan Sarret (introduction); Dawambo (introduction, villain) |
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| Synopsis | Simba rescues a naturalist and his son from a water buffalo attack. |
| Featuring | Simba, King of the Beasts |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Jungle | Characters: John Mason (introduction); Dick Mason (introduction); Simba (lion) |
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| Synopsis | Fantomah stops two ivory hunters from raiding the elephants' graveyard by using their own greed against them. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Fantomah (introduction); two ivory hunters (introduction, death); Maula (elephant) |
| Notes | One half of final page is occupied by an advertisement. |
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| Advertisement | A Bike for You |
| Synopsis | Advertisement for the Cromwell-Collier Publishing Company encouraging boys to deliver magazines in exchange for prizes. |
| Featuring | Cromwell-Collier Publishing Company |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Lower half of last page of the Fantomah story. |
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| Synopsis | An advertisement for Johnson Smith & Co. novelties |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | inside back cover. |
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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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