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Interesting how the multi-panel fight scene on page 10 was numbered. I suppose that sort of sequence wasn’t too common at the time. |
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Publication | October 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Cover | Land of the Cannibal God |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Ann Mason |
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Comic Story | Dwellers of the Mist (12 pages) |
Synopsis | Kaänga, Lance, and Helen's father fly the plane into the Valley of Mist where they find the city of Carthina, a lost Carthaginian outpost. Here they help restore the emperor to his thrown after a coup by his daughter Portia. |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Lance; Helen; Asika; Helena; Portia |
Notes | The Kaänga story is titled "Land of the Cannibal God" on the cover, but differently and more accurately titled on the splash page. There is no mention of cannibals nor gods in ANY story in this issue. |
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Synopsis | Exiled witch doctor, Kraagi, uses music to command the animals of the jungle to attack his village. Wambi uses a flute to counter the witch doctor. |
Featuring | Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Wambi; Kraagi; Ota; Ogg; Tawn |
Notes | One third of last page is an advertisement for War Stamps. |
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Comic Story | Forbidden Valley (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Tabu ventures into the Forbidden Valley in order to find plants to counter crocodile venom and must battle the lizard-men known as dragotyrs. |
Credits | Script:? [as Mack] |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tabu; dragotyrs |
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Text Story | Death Beats the Drums (2 pages) |
Credits | Script:? [as Dan Stockman] | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Jungle |
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Synopsis | Simba is captured by hunters but saves them from a rogue elephant and is allowed to go free. |
Content | Genre: Animal; Jungle | Characters: Simba |
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Synopsis | A jungle siren lures unwary travelers to a slaver, but Terry breaks up the ring. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Terry Thunder; Swalis (African tribe); Damara; Abin; Sinigali; Duma; Anderson the Arab |
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Synopsis | Brief natural histories of the grey parrot, concave hornbill, purple roller, secretary bird, bearded vulture, shoebill, and red bishop bird. |
Featuring | African Wild Life |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Jungle; Nature |
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Synopsis | The colonial militia prevents the taking of a town by the Wa-kisis, and Camilla rescues a pair of white children kept captive by the tribe. |
Featuring | Camilla, Queen of the Jungle Empire |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Camilla; Captain Nevin; Anzio; Wa-kisis (African tribe) |
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