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A blonde kid with a cowlick in a red and black striped shirt, having to deal with a big grump named Mr. Wilson? An alternate Earth version of Dennis the Menace? |
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Publication | 1950 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
Notes | Art credit from David Saunders, Norman Saunders' son, via e-mail (January 6, 2008) |
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Cover | The Gorilla-God! |
Featuring | Wild Boy |
Credits | Pencils: Norman Saunders (painting) | Inks: Norman Saunders (painting) | Colors: Norman Saunders (painting) |
Content | Genre: Jungle |
Notes | Art credit from David Saunders, Norman Saunders' son, via e-mail (January 6, 2008) |
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Featuring | Jungle Oddities |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Jungle |
Notes | On inside front cover. |
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Comic Story | Wild Boy, Prince of the Jungle (12 pages) |
Synopsis | How young David escaped from his sinister uncle who hired natives to kill him and later became the Wild Boy. |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Wild Boy [David Clyde]; Uncle Clyde; Mr. Wilson |
Notes | Compared with Hodge's signed work in various Marvel comics, this must be him. |
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Comic Story | Gorilla God (6 pages) |
Synopsis | When Keeto is captured to be sacrificed to the Gorilla God, Wild Boy sets out to find and rescue him. |
Featuring | Wild Boy |
Credits | Pencils: Paul Hodge | Inks: Paul Hodge |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Wild Boy; Keeto (friend); Daro (panther); Kimba (monkey) |
Notes | Same art as the first story. |
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Text Story | Man-Eater (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Jungle |
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Comic Story | Jungle Guns! (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Mr. Heinlin and his wife has come to Congo to sow revolution in the African colonies. Joe Barton is hired to guide them through the jungle. |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Joe Barton; Major Viseemon (High Commissioner); Limie Louie (pick-pocket); Karl Heinlin; Olga Heinlin |
Notes | The faces with lightning eyebrows are like Novick's work. The inking by Sachs match his credited work in Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #3. |
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Comic Story | The Invaders (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Two men of evil and violence came trailing into the Lost City, and it remained for Wild Boy alone to do battle against the bloddthirsty invaders. |
Featuring | Wild Boy |
Credits | Pencils: Paul Hodge | Inks: Paul Hodge |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Wild Boy; Keeto (friend); Timba (panther); Mattuti; Simms (villain); Ferris (villain) |
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Publisher advertisement | Kid Cowboy Ad (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
Notes | On the inside back cover. |
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Illustration | Wild Boy (1 page) |
Featuring | Wild Boy |
Content | Genre: Jungle |
Notes | On back cover. |
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