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| Publication | July 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Every month |
| Notes | First "Ann-in-bikini" cover. |
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| Cover | Live Sacrifice |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Ann Mason |
| Notes | First "Ann-in-bikini" cover. |
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| Synopsis | An in-house promotional advertisement soliciting advertising copy from readers who are to send in their copy along with four coupons from Fiction House comics. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | inside front cover |
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| Comic Story | Live Sacrifice (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kaänga guides an explorer to a lost valley inhabited by descendents of ancient Romans and cannibalistic monkey me. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Red Bradey] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Red Longjohn (introduction); Romey (introduction, villain); the Monkey Men (introduction, villains, death); Ann Mason; Lethor (lion) |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover blurb. |
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| Synopsis | The Panther restores a deposed chief to his position in his village. |
| Featuring | The Red Panther |
| Credits | Script:? [as Taylor Martin] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: The Red Panther; Boku (introduction, villain, death) |
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| Synopsis | Camilla and Caredodo brave the Cave of Sighs, the entrance to the supernatural underworld. Captured by Satan, Camilla carves a crosses that repulses the monster. The Angel of Faith rescues them and rewards Caredodo by transforming him from an ugly hunchback into a tall, handsome knight. Camilla dubs him "Sir Champion" and makes him her prime minister. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Ted Carter] |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Camilla; Caredodo [becomes Sir Champion] (guest); Mephistopheles (introduction, villain); Temptation (introduction, villain); Satan (introduction, villain); The Angel of Faith (introduction) |
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| Synopsis | Joe Manners captures his explorer brother and plans to murder him to secure his inheritance. Roy attempts to rescue the explorer and only succeeds with the assistance of a tribe of giant gorillas. |
| Featuring | Roy Lance |
| Credits | Script:? [as Courtney Thomason] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Roy Lance; Prof. Manners (introduction); Faith Manners (introduction); Joe Manners (introduction, villain); Champ (gorilla) |
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| Text Story | The Claw of Simba (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Bob Clark] | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Ran-Tog |
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| Synopsis | A group of criminals enslave a village in Fantomah's jungle in order to use them as labor in a diamond mine. Fantomah frees the slaves and takes the four criminals to the Secret Pit of Jungle Horrors where she transforms the four into one man and abandons him to his horrible fate. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Fantomah |
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| Synopsis | A wounded Simba makes friends with a wounded white girl, lost from her safari. Simba escorts her back to her father where they discover that the father is being tortured by criminals looking for his stash of gold. Simba rescues the man but then he, the father, and the daughter fall into a tiger trap and the criminals begin to bury them alive. Simba call on his animal subjects to rescue them. |
| Featuring | Simba, King of the Beasts |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Jungle | Characters: Simba |
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| Synopsis | Gloria is tricked into a treasure hunt by an Arab merchant who then kidnaps her. Terry rescues her and his two men that he ordered to accompany her on her hunt. |
| Featuring | Captain Terry Thunder of the Congo Lancers |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Terry Thunder; Gloria Frazier; Abou Ben Ali (introduction, villain); Kismet (camel); Slim Lennon; Tubs Hedge; Sahabid |
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| Synopsis | To prevent the destruction of a village, Tabu imprisons a wind spirit. This angers the wind god who sends terrible storms, lightning, and a tornado to the village. Tabu agrees to release the spirit if the god will never attack the village again. The god agrees. Once the winds are gone, the villagers discover that their valley is no longer fertile. Tabu transforms four slain elephants into banana, coconut, and breadfruit trees. |
| Featuring | Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tabu; the wind-god (introduction, villain); a witch doctor (introduction); Sirocco |
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| Synopsis | Folklore regarding lions and elephants. |
| Featuring | Jungle Facts |
| Credits | Script:? [as Stan Johnson] |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Jungle; Nature |
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| Synopsis | The provincial governor's daughter is kindapped and held for ransom, but she is rescued by Wambi and his jungle friends. |
| Featuring | Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Wambi; the provincial governor (introduction); the governor's wife (introduction); Kathy (the governor's daughter) (introduction); Kaga (crocodile); Toga; Ongagis (African tribe); Tawn (elephant); Rouma (lion); Kaa (python); Core (condor); Ogg (ape); Dirk |
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| Synopsis | An in-house promotional advertisement for Fiction House's Planet Comics, Fight Comics, and Jumbo Comics. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | inside back cover |
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| Synopsis | An advertisement for the Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter from Remington Rand, Incorporated. Purchases of the typewriter may also buy a desk for one dollar. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | back cover |
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