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| Name | Jungle Comics 3 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: every month |
| Notes | On-sale date from previous issue. Publication date of January 15, 1940 found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 441853. |
| Cover | Crocodiles of Death River / 1 page |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Kaänga |
| Pencils | Charles Sultan |
| Inks | Charles Sultan |
| Notes | Kaänga's name on the cover has no diaeresis (dots above either 'a'). |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| 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. |
| Characters | Bullseye Bannon |
| First Line | Calling all manhunters! |
| Notes | inside front cover |
| Comic Story | Crocodiles of Death River / Kaänga (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kaänga overthrows a fraudulent witch doctor. |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Kaänga; Ann Mason; Sam Broot (introduction, villain); Mobu (introduction); Cheba (leopard) |
| Pencils | Ken Jackson (signed) |
| Inks | Ken Jackson (signed) |
| First Line | After escaping from the island, Kaanga and Ann pause to rest in a sheltered place... |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover blurb. Kaänga is now spelled with the dots over the second 'a'. |
| Story | The Red Panther (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Panther prevents the sacrifice of a white miner to a native god. |
| Script | ? [as Taylor Martin] |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Red Panther; Randall (introduction); Miss Randall (introduction); a witch doctor (introduction, villain) |
| Pencils | Art Peddy ? |
| Inks | Art Peddy ? |
| First Line | The Red Panther comes to the bottom of a steep waterfall. |
| Story | Tabu (6.8 pages) |
| 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. |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Tabu; Blackwall (introduction, villain, death); Snake-Eye (introduction); Gog (monkey); Tegra (crocodile); Vilma Day |
| Pencils | Robert Lewis (signed) |
| Inks | Robert Lewis (signed) |
| First Line | A native village is thrown into wild confusion... |
| Comic Story | The Case of the Diamond Death: Case 1: File-A: Clue Two / Bullseye Bannon |
| Synopsis | The second clue in a murder mystery story story competition described on the inside front cover. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Bullseye Bannon |
| Pencils | Bob Powell ? |
| Inks | Bob Powell ? |
| Notes | the bottom one fifth of the sixth page of the Tabu story. |
| Story | Camilla (6 pages) |
| 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. |
| Genre | Jungle; Science Fiction |
| Characters | Jon Dale; Ruth Birch; Camilla (villain) |
| Pencils | Chuck Winter |
| Inks | Chuck Winter |
| First Line | Jon Dale, with Ruth, is returning to explore the ruins of the lost empire... |
| Notes | This story creates a sort of amalgam of the Camilla stories in the first two issues as back story. |
| Text Story | The Crawling Death (2 pages) |
| Script | ? [as Pete Wentworth] |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Story | Captain Terry Thunder (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Terry and his men subdue a murderous, renegade tribe. |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Terry Thunder; Ben Salub (introduction, villain, death); Winters |
| Script | Pierre La Rue |
| First Line | Nice work! Captain of an African outpost and nothing to do! |
| Notes | Pencils/inks: Astarita didn't start working for Fiction House until 1942. (Noted by Darci via the error tracker). |
| Story | Wambi (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ogg and Tawn rescue Wambi and Tarro when they are captured by hunters seeking animals for a circus. |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Buck Larsen (introduction, villain); Wambi; Fria (tigress); Tarro (tiger); Tia (cockatoo); Ogg (ape); Tawn (elephant); Klar (owl) |
| Pencils | Henry Kiefer (signed) |
| Inks | Henry Kiefer (signed) |
| First Line | To the jungle home of Wambi, young friend of all the beasts, comes the unscrupulous Buck Larson... |
| Story | Roy Lance (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Roy helps his friends the Wasangoras protect their cattle from raiders. |
| Script | ? [as Courtney Thomason] |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Roy Lance; Jujo |
| First Line | Roy Lance, famous African explorer, visits the peace-loving, cattle raising tribe o the Wasangora... |
| Story | Simba King of Beasts (5.5 pages) |
| 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. |
| Genre | Animal; Jungle |
| Characters | a boy (introduction); boy's father (introduction) |
| Pencils | Bill Allison |
| Inks | Bill Allison |
| First Line | A small white boy, lost in the brush and weak from hunger, is staggering along a game trail. |
| Notes | One half of final page is devoted to an advertisement. |
| Advertisement | No Title |
| Synopsis | An advertisement seeking door-to-door magazine subscription salesmen for Cromwell-Collier Publishing Company with a Monarch Silver King bicycle as a premium. |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | A bike for you |
| Notes | lower half of the last page of the Simba story |
| Comic Story | The City of Gold / Fantomah (7 pages) |
| 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. |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Fantomah; two hunters (villains, turned into insect-men) |
| Script | Fletcher Hanks |
| Pencils | Fletcher Hanks |
| Inks | Fletcher Hanks |
| Letters | Fletcher Hanks |
| First Line | ...by using her strange powers, she has discovered two white men planning to rob the jungle of its most sacred treasure... |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | An in-house promotional advertisement for Fight Comics, Planet Comics, and Jumbo Comics. |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | For rip roaring action and adventure... |
| Notes | back cover |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
