Issue: #73
Published: January 1946, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
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, 1945, New Series, Vol. 40, No. 4.
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Text Story (2 pages) |
Spoor of the Moon Hill Treasure |
Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Comic Story (10 pages) |
The Killers of M'omba Raj |
Synopsis: |
Dr. Marr's scientific expedition captures a white ape. Nilo, riding from the land of the Lake of Mists attacks the safari in order to free the ape, which is sacred to her people. They also take Dr. Marr. Kaänga and Ann pursue them. Ann is captured, but Kaänga frees both her and Dr. Marr. They destroy Nilo's castle with dynamite. |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Princess Nilo (villain, Introduction) Dr. Marr Kaänga Ann Mason N'geeso |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Captain Terry Thunder |
Synopsis: |
Marmo, his daughter Naru, and his witch doctor Kunda, frame the local pygmies for Naru's and Terry's faked deaths in order to take the pygmies gold. Terry exposes their fraud. |
Credits: |
Script: ? [as Pierre La Rue] |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Terry Thunder Keeto Marmo Naru Jagar (horse) Lieutenant Jamison Kunda |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
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Synopsis: |
Two ivory hunters make their way to the elephants' graveyard. Camilla uses Fang to create and elephant stampede, killing one of the hunters and leading the other to promise to change his ways. |
Genre: |
Jungle |
Characters: |
Camilla Fang (dog) Ed Al |
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