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Issue: #57
Published: September 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: Jack Byrne (Managing Editor); John C. Mitchell (Editor)
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.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Fire Gems of T'ulaki
Featuring:	Kaänga
Credits:	Pencils: Joe Doolin ? \| Inks: Joe Doolin ?
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason N'geeso

Comic Story (12 pages)	Land That Time Forgot
Featuring:	Kaänga
Synopsis:	A plane crash strands a trio of explorers on the rim of an ancient volcano. Kaänga and Ann come to offer assistance and they are all attacked by the Ka-winas, an ancient tribe determined to keep their home inside the volcano a secret. Kaänga uses the explorers' dynamite to ignite the volcano and destroy the Ka-winas and then he pushes the plane off the rim to glide to the jungle below.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Frank Riddell] \| Pencils: Maxwell Elkan ?; Ruben Moreira \| Inks: Ruben Moreira
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason Lance Ka-winas (ancient African Tribe) N'ghana

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Taj of the Elephants
Synopsis:	Taj's father is taken by bandits. Taj is freed by Singh after she saves his life from a cobra. Taj is then protected by elephants until she and the elephants can free her father.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Princess Taj (introduction) Malik Singh

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Simba
Synopsis:	Ngador, a black-maned lion, challenges Simba for the kingship of the jungle and is killed in his duel with Simba.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Ed Hunt] \| Pencils: Richard Case \| Inks: Richard Case
Genre:	Animal Jungle
Characters:	Simba Ngador Tiku

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Captain Terry Thunder
Synopsis:	Terry discovers that the juju the swampmen use to terrorize their neighbors is an old cannon and destroys it.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Pierre La Rue] \| Pencils: Howard Larsen (signed) \| Inks: Howard Larsen (signed)
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Terry Thunder Swamp People Lia Anderson The Arab

Text Story (2 pages)	Killers Make Good Eating
Credits:	Script: ? [as Dan Stockman] \| Letters: Typeset
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Tony Harrison Simeon Brady M'Suli Panni

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Wambi
Synopsis:	Drought drives the Demara tribe to rebellion.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Roy L. Smith] \| Pencils: Henry Kiefer \| Inks: Henry Kiefer
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Wambi Allan Ford (introduction) Matu (introduction) Demaras (African Tribe)(introduction) Worumba (introduction, Villain) Babu (baboon) Maggo (macaw) Zella (zebra) Osssa (ostrich) Corna (rhinoceros) Colonel Brent

Comic Story (8 pages)
Featuring:	Camilla, Queen of the Jungle Empire
Synopsis:	Camilla frees a pair of white settlers from the Wasaganis, who are being led by a white criminal.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Victor Ibsen] \| Pencils: Howard Larsen (signed) \| Inks: Howard Larsen (signed)
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Camilla Wasaganis (African Tribe) Laura Schwartz Joe Schwartz Nolan Pogo Bongo

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