Additional Information |
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Publication | June 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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Cover | Spoor of the Purple Skulls |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Ann Mason |
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Comic Story | Fire-Birds from the Sky! (12 pages) |
Synopsis | Bronson, an unscrupulous con man convinces the Tulagis that he commands the sky gods, using hot air balloons in his deception. Kaänga exposes him and watches him fall to his death. |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kaänga; Ann Mason; Bronson; N'geeso; Tulagis (African tribe) |
Notes | The story title given in the cover blurb is "Spoor of the Purple Skulls" which does not seem to be this story. |
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Synopsis | A muezzin uses the call to prayer to hypnotize a group of apes. He plans to use them in his vengeance plot against the local sheikh by having them kill the sheikh's daughter before his very eyes. Wambi rescues the girl and frees the apes from the muezzin's control. |
Featuring | Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Wambi; Tawn; Ogg; Alib; Dova (dove) |
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Synopsis | Suspecting that a troupe of dancing girls are being kept as slaves, Terry sends Keeto back to the outpost while follows the troupe. As Terry is about to be killed the slave master Orovitch, Keeto arrives with the lancers. |
Featuring | Captain Terry Thunder |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Terry Thunder; Keeto; Anna Janson; Orovitch |
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Synopsis | The story of how elephants are domesticated and how they are used. |
Featuring | Jungle Facts |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Nature |
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Synopsis | A band of thieving mandrills are plaguing the M'naghlis. Tabu agrees to end their pillaging if the M'naghlis will give up collecting tribute from their neighbors. Bgama, the princess, refuses, but her witch doctor secretly tells Tabu that he will make her give up tribute. Tabu then leads the mandrills to a crocodile-infested pool, where they are eaten. When he returns to the village, disguised as a girl bringing a tribute of fruit, Bgama attempts to kill him for not bringing something more valuable. Tabu calls an elephant from the bush who crushes Bgama to death. |
Featuring | Tabu |
Credits | Script:? [as Mack] |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: M'naghlis (African tribe); Tabu; Bgama; Rastmos (African tribe) |
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Text Story | The Beast with a Thousand Teeth (2 pages) |
Credits | Script:? [as Dan Stockman] | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Jungle |
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Synopsis | Villagers and white hunters pursue a rogue elephant that leads them into Simba's territory. Simba attacks the elephant and wounds it. The hunters arrive and kill it. |
Featuring | Simba, King of Beasts |
Content | Genre: Animal; Jungle | Characters: Simba |
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Synopsis | Camilla prevents the assassination of a chief by his witch doctor. |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Camilla; Fang (dog); Waskais (African tribe); N'kali |
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