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| Publication | April 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every month |
| Notes | Here Kaänga's name is spelled "Kaȧnga," with a dot, rather than the diaeresis. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga |
| Notes | Here Kaänga's name is spelled "Kaȧnga," with a dot, rather than the diaeresis. |
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| Synopsis | Kaänga and Ann are captured by Broot, who forces Kaänga to labor for him as an act of humiliation. Cheba rescues the pair and Broot and his mean are left in a tiger trap. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Red Brady] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Sam Broot (villain); Ann Mason; Cheba (leopard) |
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| Synopsis | The Panther prevents two lost criminals from plundering the pitchblende of a tribe in his jungle. As punishment, he rolls the men in the pitchblende and releases them. A week later he finds them dead of radiation poisoning. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Taylor Martin] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: The Red Panther; two crooks (introduction, villain, death) |
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| Synopsis | Tabu rescues a naturalist from the Bargonans, who breed lion-leopard hybrids to eat their enemies. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tabu; Tom Barton (introduction); the Bargonans (African tribe) (introduction, villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Frightened Killer: Case 2: File A: Clue 2 |
| Synopsis | The second clue in the murder mystery that is serialized across the Fiction House titles this month. |
| Featuring | Bullseye Bannon |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Bullseye Bannon; Titus |
| Notes | Located on the lower one quarter of the final page of the Tabu story. |
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| Synopsis | Camilla is exiled by her people for her cruelty. She encounters Jon and Ruth and transforms Jon into an ice statue and tells Ruth that if she will help her find the fountain of youth, Jon will be restored. Together they locate the fountain and Jon is returned to human form, and Camilla is once more restored to immortality. Sensing a change in Camilla, Jon and Ruth ask her people to return her to her throne and they agree. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle; Science Fiction | Characters: Jon Dale; Ruth Burch; Camilla |
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| Text Story | Son of the Lion (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Bob Clark] (credited) | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Ron-tog (a jungle boy) (introduction) |
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| Synopsis | The Ingaras attack Fort Death and capture Terry's men. He barely escapes and makes his way to the next outpost to raise a rescue party. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Buck Johnson] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle | Characters: Captain Terry Thunder; the Ingaras (African tribe) |
| Notes | Pencils/inks: Astarita didn't start working for Fiction House until 1942. (Noted by Darci via the error tracker). |
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| Comic Story | Thundering Herds (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tawn and Ogg are captured by Larsen who plans to use them to lure Wambi to his death. Wambi and Lupa turn the tables on Larsen and free all the captured animals. |
| Featuring | Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Wambi; Buck Larsen (villain, death); Tawn (elephant); Ogg (ape); Lupa (wolf); Kaa (python) |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover blurb. |
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| Synopsis | During a terrific storm, two of Simba's cubs become trapped beneath a fallen tree. Simba seeks the help of an elephant to free them. |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Jungle | Characters: Simba |
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| Synopsis | Fantomah stops a mad scientist who has taken control of the gorillas in the jungle, using a serum to make them super-intelligent. As punishment, she allows the gorillas to rip him to pieces, and then restores them to normal intelligence. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Fantomah; The Doctor (villain, introduction, death); Mac (villain, introduction, death); group of four Gorgon Gorillas (villains, restored to normal) |
| Notes | First line of text reads: "Fantomah, the most remarkable woman ever known, has such strange powers and insight, that she foresees all that is to happen in connection with jungle life..."
The cover illustration and title of the 2009 Fantagraphics book "You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!" come from the last page of this story.
The authors of the reprint, who own the original art for this story, surmise from close examination of Fantomah's face on the splash page that "the editor probably had the face of Fantomah whited out and prettified from Fletcher Hanks' original rendering". |
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| Synopsis | Roy rescues his safari clients from the savage Zungos. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Courtney Thomason] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Roy Lance; The Zungos (introduction, villains, some die); John Mitchell (introduction); Ellen Mitchell (introduction) |
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