Issue: #3
Published: March 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, 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: On-sale date from previous issue.
Publication date of January 15, 1940 found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 441853.
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| Cover (1 page) |
Crocodiles of Death River |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Kaänga |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
A promotional encouraging encouraging readers to send in coupons from Fiction House comics and their solution to the Bannon mystery being serialized in the Fiction House comics this month in order to win a $25 prize and membership in the Junior Manhunters of America. |
| Characters: |
Bullseye Bannon |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
The Case of the Diamond Death: Case 1: File-A: Clue Two |
| Featuring: |
Bullseye Bannon |
| Synopsis: |
The second clue in a murder mystery story story competition described on the inside front cover. |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
Bullseye Bannon |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Exploring the ruins of Camilla's city, Jon and Ruth are taken captive by Camilla's men. Camilla again asks Jon to marry her. When he refuses, Camilla has Ruth thrown in a magic pool that ages her prematurely. Jon uses Camilla's fountain of youth to restore Ruth's youth and then destroys the fountain, insuring that Camilla will age. |
| Genre: |
Jungle Science Fiction |
| Characters: |
Jon Dale Ruth Birch Camilla (villain) |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Crawling Death |
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Script: ? [as Pete Wentworth] | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Roy Lance |
| Synopsis: |
Roy helps his friends the Wasangoras protect their cattle from raiders. |
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Script: ? [as Courtney Thomason] |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Roy Lance Jujo |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Simba, King of the Beasts |
| Synopsis: |
Simba temporarily adopts a lost child who then saves the pride from hunters. Simba reunites the boy with his father and saves the father's safari from a rhinoceros. |
| Genre: |
Animal Jungle |
| Characters: |
A Boy (introduction) Boy's Father (introduction) |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
An advertisement seeking door-to-door magazine subscription salesmen for Cromwell-Collier Publishing Company with a Monarch Silver King bicycle as a premium. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
An in-house promotional advertisement for Fight Comics, Planet Comics, and Jumbo Comics. |
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Letters: typeset |
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