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Issue: Jungle Comics #12 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1940
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Glen Kel Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/09/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Malcolm Reiss (Editor); William E. Eisner (Art Director); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor)
Disclose 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. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
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
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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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Original Artwork
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The Devil's Death-Trap

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Dan Zolnerowich
Dan Zolnerowich
?
typeset
Subject Matter
jungle
Kaänga
Kaänga
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Devil's Death-Trap

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Red Brady]
George Tuska
George Tuska; Art Saaf ?
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Kaänga
Mickey Malloy (introduction, villain, death); Kaänga; Ann Mason
Gangsters from American attempt to take over Kaänga's jungle.
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Miscellaneous
10
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

first line: "A trim yacht cuts the spray out of New York harbor,..."

The art style softens as the story progresses, and Hames Ware suggests that perhaps Art Saaf might be involved with the inks.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Taylor Martin]
Arthur Peddy
Arthur Peddy ?; ?
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
The Red Panther
Red Panther
A huge tawny beast sights its prey.
The Panther rescues a party of scientists from a native tribe and then leads them to diamonds so that they can afford to carry on their scientific research.
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Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Ted Carter]
Bob Powell ?
Bob Powell ?; Saul Rosen ?
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Camilla
Sir Champion; Von Blumb (introduction, villain, death); Camilla
Early one morning an exhausted explorer stumbles to the gates of Camilla's city...
Camilla and Champion are shrunken to insect size by a mad scientist.
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Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Courtney Thomason]
Nick Cardy ?
Nick Cardy ?
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Roy Lance
Diana Storm (introduction); Roy Lance
An adventure-seeking debutante, Diana Storm, has asked to accompany Roy Lance into the interior of Africa...
Roy helps stops a cattle raiding tribe from plundering the herds of a peaceful village.
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Miscellaneous
6
Violent Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Bob Anthony]
Lou Fine?
Lou Fine?
typeset
Subject Matter
jungle
Dirk Hardy
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] (signed)
Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] (signed)
Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] (signed)
?
Fletcher Hanks
Subject Matter
jungle, occult
Fantomah
Fantomah; The Fifth Column (introduction, villain, death)
Her keen insight and super vision enable Fantomah to see an alarming situation.
A European army plans to use bases in Africa and South America to destroy democracy. Fantomah gives African lions the power of flight to destroy the European airborne assault in South American and causes the survivors of the attack to land on a remote plateau in Brazil where they are eaten by dinosaurs that have survived extinction there.
Reprinting
FlagYou Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! #[nn] published June 2009
as The New Blitzers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagDivas, Dames & Daredevils #[nn] published January 2013
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Johnson Melville]
Witmer Williams
Witmer Williams
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Simba, King of the Beasts
Wuga Moro (introduction, villain, death?); Jack (introduction); Ellen (introduction); Simba
The village of the fierce warrior chieftain, Wuga Moro, in the Kafari Forest...
Simba helps rescue a couple taken hostage by the savage chieftain, Wuga Moro.
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Miscellaneous
4
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Pierre La Rue]
Bill Bossert
Bill Bossert
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Captain Terry Thunder
Anderson the Arab; Vincent (introduction)(a vulture); Terry Thunder; Kismet (camel)
Captain Terry thought the Arabs and savages were trouble until kicking little Kismet trotted into his life...
Terry outwits a group of Arabs determined to destroy an oil pipeline.
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Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Robert Lewis]
Charles Sultan
Charles Sultan
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle
Baron Logh (introduction, villain, death); Father Andre (introduction, death); Tabu
Across a small valley a vulture flies in a tireless circle...
Tabu liberates a group of slaves working in a mine for the evil Baron Logh.
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Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Leo Lyons]
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
informational
Jungle Facts
Short natural histories of the gorilla, the panther, and the cobra.
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Roy L. Smith]
Henry Kiefer
Henry Kiefer
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Captain Schlact (introduction, villain, death); the Baron (introduction, villain, death); Wambi; Ogg (ape); Tawn (elephant); Tunno (rhinoceros); Bora (boa constrictor); Kala; Barka (baboon); Maggo (parrot)
You say that Tawn and Tunno are fighting?
Wambi prevents a Nazi-planned tribal war.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7

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