Digital Comic Museum - Jungle Comics 008 (c2c)


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Issue: #8
Published: August 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Cover; Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. (early Issues); Standard Silver Age U.S. (later Issues) 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, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Safari into Shadowland
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga

Comic Story (10 pages)	Safari into Shadowland
Synopsis:	Criminals drive out the workers of a diamond mine and bring in their own natives to work the mine. Kaänga, together with a group of black-maned lions, restores the mine to its rightful owners.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Red Bradey]
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Jim Gorr (introduction, Villain) Mogo

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	After a savage tribe wipes out a group of missionaries, the Panther sees to it that they are punished by a flood that leaves their leader dead.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Taylor Martin]
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	The Red Panther

Comic Story (8 pages)
Synopsis:	A group of scientists are stricken with a plague after they open an ancient Egyptian tomb in the jungle. Tabu goes to a lost ancient Egyptian outpost for a cure. At the outposts, the descendants of the Egyptians force Tabu to battle and defeat a group of degenerate ratmen and a giant serpent before they give him the cure for the plague.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Tabu Ratmen (introduction, Villains) A Band Of Egyptians (introduction, Villains) Dr. Denman Falls

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	With the aid of a band of gorillas, Camilla and her army repulse an attack by a medieval Asian army.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Ted Carter]
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Camilla Sir Champion Goro (a Gorilla)(introduction) Kato Tah-Kee (introduction, Villain, Death)

Text Story (2 pages)	The Dark Horde
Credits:	Script: ? [as Bob Clark] \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Ran-Tog

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	Yak-ho and his savage tribe attack the peaceful Kadahs. Terry uses a stick of chewing gum as a bribe to stop the attacks, but later must exorcise the evil spirit of the gum with a piece of jewelry.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Captain Terry Thunder Yak-Ho (introduction, Villain) Kismet (camel)

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	The Ingas, weakened by disease, are attacked by the Kurgas. Wambi goes to the military outpost to get both military and medical assistance.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Wambi The Inga Tribe (introduction) Hoag (hawk) Decca (zebra) Ogg (ape) Pan (leopard) Kara (chimpanzee) Tawn (elephant) Dr. Wade

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Roy helps a diamond mine owner find his mine with the aid of the thieves who stole the map to the mine.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Courtney Thomason]
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Roy Lance Mr. White June White Buono

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	Simba rescues the pilot of a crashed airplane who is looking for his kidnapped fiance. With the help of Simba and some apes, he frees the girl and captures the kidnappers.
Genre:	Animal Jungle
Characters:	Simba Jack Williams (introduction) Ann (introduction) A Group Of Kidnappers (introduction, Villain)

Comic Story (1 page)	The Strange Aardvark; The Bird of Paradise
Synopsis:	A brief natural history of the aardvark and the bird of paradise.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Stan Johnson]
Genre:	Non-fiction Jungle Nature

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Temple in the Mud Pit
Synopsis:	When Mr. X steals a mystical headpiece that causes a boiling mud-pit to overflow into the jungle, he is confronted by Fantomah who transforms him into a mud being and condemns him to live underground forever.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Fantomah Mr. X (introduction, Villain) Volcano People (introduction)

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