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Jungle Comics #104 [Aug'48]-52pg-c2c -DIGDiD

Issue: #104
Published: August 1948, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: J.F. Byrne (managing editor)(credited); 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

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason

Comic Story (10 pages)
Synopsis:	The overseers of the Hamiltons' mine discover that a vein previously thought to be worked out still has yields. They plot to kill the Hamiltons and claim the mine for themselves. They are foiled by Kaänga.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason N'geeso Curt Latimer Krupp L'noka Tom Hamilton

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Simba, King of Beasts
Synopsis:	Monkeys loot a steamboat of traders' gold and use throw the gold at thieves who would kill Simba, causing them to flee.
Genre:	Animal Jungle
Characters:	Simba N'mogo

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Captain Terry Thunder
Synopsis:	Terry is transporting prisoners down river when an animal trader, working in concert with the prisoners, attacks Terry's boat. Terry is captured but Keeto leads the lancers to his rescue. The trader is killed by one of his captured leopards.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Terry Thunder Keeto Barker Belle

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring:	Jungle Facts
Synopsis:	Brief natural histories of some dangerous African animals.
Genre:	Non-fiction Jungle Nature

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Synopsis:	A pair of bird hunters are attacked by lynx. Wambi, Tawn, and Ogg drive the lynx away. Tawn eats some of the food abandoned by the hunters and becomes mad. Wambi and Tawn hurry to Ogg's ape tribe and warns them that Ogg is not in his right mind. Young apes through Ogg into the river but he is rescued by Wambi and Tawn. Later, the effects of the food wear off.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Wambi Tawn Ligo (lynx) Ogg

Text Story (2 pages)	Congo Justice
Credits:	Script: ? [as John Starr] \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Jungle

Comic Story (6 pages)	Mamba! Witch of Death!
Featuring:	Tabu
Synopsis:	The ghost of murdered Carl Thurston, gold miner, asks Tabu to avenger him against his wife and her snake charmer partner. Tabu complies and the wife and snake charmer fall from a cliff to their deaths.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Mack]
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Tabu Momba Suwallis (African Tribe) Carl Thurston Tonko Gail Thurston Jala (snake)

Comic Story (8 pages)	I'll Kill You, Camilla!
Synopsis:	His mind destroyed by jungle fever, Dr. Wertham turns on his colleagues and, with the aid of a lion cultist, attempts to make off with all the gold the group had looted from the Zulu Tombs. Thwarted by Camilla, he seeks revenge and is killed by a black leopard.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Camilla Ashcraft Dr. Wertham Fang (dog) K'bilo Sylvia Clyde Lion Cultists

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