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| Date | | Number: 77 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Jungle Comics 77 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947. |
| Cover | The Golden Gourds Shriek Blood! / 1 page |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Kaänga; Ann Mason |
| Pencils | Joe Doolin |
| Inks | Joe Doolin |
| Comic Story | The Golden Gourds Shriek Blood! / Kaänga (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Witch doctor Niato, in league with white treasure hunters, takes Ann to sacrifice to the god Ghia, which in reality is a mannequin drawn from the lake by a balloon. Kaänga arrives and exposes the fraud, kills the witch doctor, and frees Ann. |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Kaänga; Ann Mason; N'geeso; Niato; Pnais (African tribe); Jim |
| Script | Frank Riddell |
| Pencils | Howard Larsen |
| Inks | Howard Larsen |
| First Line | Agonized whispers attest that a new king has risen to rule the jungle... |
| Notes | The story title is taken from the cover blurb. |
| Story | Simba King of Beasts (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Simba, seeking to escape crocodiles, flees onto a steamboat full of caged animals. Shortly natives attack and Simba drives them away when the hunters open the cages. |
| Genre | Animal; Jungle |
| Characters | Simba |
| Script | Ed Hunt |
| Pencils | August Froehlich (signed) |
| Inks | August Froehlich (signed) |
| First Line | The two-legged ones are to be avoided... |
| Story | Wambi (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A snake priestess demands tribute from villagers and those who fail to produce their valuables die. Wambi reveals that she is using a hidden snake to kill the victims and that he has introduced a mongoose into the mechanism that killed the snake. |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Wambi; Ogg; Monya; Linkas (African tribe); Tawn |
| Script | Roy L. Smith |
| Inks | Jean Levander |
| First Line | The scent of death rolled heavily through the jungle... |
| Notes | Inks credit from James Van Nuys, grandson of the artist, who is in possession of black & white proofs of three pages of the story. |
| Story | Captain Terry Thunder (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Terry is given a new assignment as the governor of Fort Diablo. When he arrives, he finds that the previous governor, though imprisoned, has staged a riot and taken over the fort. Terry is imprisoned himself, but manages to escape and re-establish order. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Terry Thunder; Maynard; Lieutenant Sasse; Jeanette Maynard; Lieutenant Martin |
| Script | Pierre La Rue |
| Pencils | Joe Doolin |
| Inks | Joe Doolin |
| First Line | 'Death waits at Fort Diablo,' the desert sands whispered. |
| Text Story | The Dawn Terror (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Story | Tabu (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The priestess of a hawk cult uses giant hawks to capture villagers to bring to her lair for sacrifice. Tabu uses his powers of illusions and convinces the priestess that she is a hawk; she falls to her death. |
| Script | ? [as Mack] |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Tabu |
| Pencils | Richard Case |
| Inks | Richard Case ? |
| First Line | Falhawks soared the cloud-steeped mountain crags... |
| Story | Jungle Facts (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | An animal identification quiz. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Jungle; Nature |
| Pencils | Mike Peppe (signed) |
| Inks | Mike Peppe (signed) |
| First Line | The jungle brutes are rhinos...the name signifies... |
| Story | Camilla (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | White treasure hunters attempt to force Camilla to reveal the location of the Temple of Gar and its gold. She refuses, but before they can kill her, the guardian of the temple, an old man, appears and takes them into the river, drowning him. Camilla takes the responsibilities of guarding the temple. |
| Genre | Jungle |
| Characters | Camilla; Jake; Dirk; N'gala; Fang (dog) |
| Script | Victor Ibsen |
| Pencils | Fran Hopper (signed) |
| Inks | Fran Hopper (signed) Ruth Atkinson ? |
| First Line | What is the pool of death -- |
| 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 | |
