Issue: #56
Published: August 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: John C. Mitchell (credited)
Color: Color Cover; Black And White Interior Dimensions: Early Issues Standard Golden Age U.S.; Later Issues Standard Silver Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 3.
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| Cover (1 page) |
Brides for the Rainmaker Raj |
| Featuring: |
Kaänga |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Joe Doolin | Inks: Joe Doolin |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Kaänga Ann Mason Rainmaker |
| Comic Story (12 pages) |
Blood Brides for the Rainmaker Raj |
| Featuring: |
Kaänga |
| Synopsis: |
A witch doctor, travels from village to village taking two maidens from each to use as "helpers." In reality, he is selling them as slaves. He takes Ann and all the slaves are liberated by Kaänga. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Frank Riddell] | Pencils: Maxwell Elkan ?; Ruben Moreira | Inks: Ruben Moreira |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Kaänga Ann Mason Rainmaker N'geeso N'tana Tuaka El Cairn |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Simba, King of Beasts |
| Synopsis: |
Simba prevents a tribe of raiders from plundering a local village. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Ed Hunt] | Pencils: George Tuska | Inks: George Tuska |
| Genre: |
Animal Jungle |
| Characters: |
Simba |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Tabu |
| Synopsis: |
A white explorer is convinced that the can eat the flesh of the young and become young himself. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Mack] | Pencils: Ruth Atkinson | Inks: Ruth Atkinson |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Tabu Claw (leopard) Fang (leopard) Bantus (African Tribe) |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Wambi, The Jungle Boy |
| Synopsis: |
Wambi and Ogg fall into a snake pit. They make their way out by using the bones of earlier victims as a ladder. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Roy L. Smith] | Pencils: Henry Kiefer | Inks: Henry Kiefer |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Wambi Ogg Tawn |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Camilla |
| Synopsis: |
Disguised as Masais, ivory trader Becker and his men burn out and kill his rival Monroe. Monroe's son, believing the Masais to blame, steals into the village and kidnaps the chief's daughter. Camilla tracks him down and returns him to Becker's trading camp where they discover Becker's deception. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Victor Ibsen] | Pencils: Marcia Snyder (signed) | Inks: Marcia Snyder (signed) |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Camilla Trader Davis Lon Becker Jimmy Monroe Blacky |
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