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| Publication | May 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Every month |
| Notes | While the text suggests that this cover depicts a scene from a story in the comics, there is no such story here. |
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| Cover | Empire of the Ape Men |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga |
| Notes | While the text suggests that this cover depicts a scene from a story in the comics, there is no such story here. |
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| Synopsis | An in-house promotional advertisement offering cash prizes for fan letters written to Fiction House. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | inside front cover |
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| Synopsis | Ann and Cheeba help Kaänga escape after he is captured by Broot. Kaänga then uses the animals of the jungle to chase away Broot's army. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Red Bradey] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Sam Broot (villain); Ann Mason; Cheeba (leopard) |
| Notes | Sam Broot is miscolored as a Caucasian. |
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| Synopsis | After the Red Panther rescues a safari from poisonous ants, the Ant Woman vows revenge on the Panther and the safari leaders. However, following their capture, the Panther turns the tables on the Ant Woman and she is killed by her own ants. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Taylor Martin] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: The Red Panther; The Ant Woman (introduction, villain, death) |
| Notes | The previous indexer doubts that this is Peddy's artwork, as does Keith Chandler. |
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| Synopsis | The leopard cultist Zsingos kidnap the children of the Jibus to sacrifice to their gods. The children are rescued by Tabu after he uses his own magic to overcome the magic traps set for him by the Zsingos. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Robert Lewis] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tabu; The Zsingos (African tribe)(introduction, villains, death); Jibus (African tribe) |
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| Comic Story | Strange Case of Ezra Ark: Case 3: File 1: Clue 2 |
| Synopsis | In this installment of the Fiction House serialized mystery of the month, Ark's nephew threatens to kill him. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Ark |
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| Synopsis | Camilla thwarts the Viking king Lief Thorgson through superior magic. After Thorgson's death at Camilla's hand, his men agree to follow her. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Tad Carter] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Camilla; Lief Thorgson (introduction, villain, death); Count Knuten (introduction, villain); Count Knuten's cousin (introduction, villain) |
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| Text Story | Death of the Laughing Terror (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Ran-Tog |
| Credits | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Ran-Tog |
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| Synopsis | The Masked Arrows capture the fort and Terry must get assistance from the local tribes to re-take it. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle | Characters: Captain Terry Thunder; The Masked Arrows (introduction, villains, death); Astbis (African tribes) |
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| Synopsis | Wambi and his animal friends rescue a herd of elephants from an ivory hunter and then destroy him and his steamboat with his own dynamite. |
| Content | Genre: Children; Jungle | Characters: Wambi; Wolf Lawsen (introduction, villain, death); Raga (crocodile); Nostro (hippopotomus); Ogg (ape); Tawn (elephant); Bimi (badger) |
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| Synopsis | Roy helps members of the Kubutti escape from slavers. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Harold Morley] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Roy Lance; Kubuttis (African tribe) |
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| Synopsis | Unscrupulous hunters poison the water hole and take the Masons captive. Simba rescues the Masons, who then detoxify the water hole. |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Jungle | Characters: Simba; John Mason; Dick Mason |
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| Synopsis | Discovering the eggs of giant reptiles on a fallen asteroid, Mundoor raises the reptiles in an attempt to take over the world. Fantomah uses her astounding powers to break Mundoor's hypnotic control over the reptiles and sends Mundoor, the reptiles, and the asteroid into deep space. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Fantomah; Mundoor (introduction, villain) |
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| Featuring | Jungle Roars |
| Credits | Script:? [as Lore] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | A single gag panel. |
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| Featuring | Jungle Roar |
| Credits | Script:? [as Lore] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | A single gag panel. |
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| Comic Story | A Jungle Tale |
| Synopsis | A monkey with a magnifying glass puts the professor on the hot seat. |
| Featuring | Prof. Dunk |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Professor Dunk |
| Notes | mime strip
Tony Rose doubts the art is Eisner's but can see the resemblance between the signature and Eisner's traditional signature. |
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| Synopsis | An in-house promotional advertisement for Jumbo Comics, Fight Comics, and Planet Comics |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | inside back cover |
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| Synopsis | An advertisement from the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, seeking magazine subscription sellers, offering prizes and cash as inducements. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | back cover |
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