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Issue: Jungle Comics #40 Public Domain
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Indicia Publisher: Glen Kel Pub. Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/05/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): John C. Mitchell
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Killer Plague

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Dan Zolnerowich (signed)
Dan Zolnerowich (signed)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
jungle
Kaänga
Kaänga; Ann Mason
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Miscellaneous
1
Killer Plague

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Frank Riddell]
Saul Rosen
Saul Rosen
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Kaänga
Varez (introduction, villain, death); Garez (introduction, villain); Zomdi (introduction, villain); Zulus (introduction, villain); Zulus (African tribe); N'geeso; Ann Mason; Kaänga
A white hunter has set up a rendering plant and is indiscriminately killing men and animals to feed the vat of boiling fat.
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Miscellaneous
14
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

first line: "The wanton killing of men and beasts arouses the jungle lord..."
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Ed Hunt]
Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi] (signed)
Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Simba, King of Beasts
Kagu (ape)(introduction, villain, death); Simba
Early morning in a sleepy African border town -- a traveling carnival parked on the town's green stirs lazily...
Simba kills an escaped circus ape.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Roy L. Smith]
Henry Kiefer
Henry Kiefer
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Kuda (introduction); Wambi; Ogg; Numa (lion); Maggo (macaw); Lupa (wolf); Tawn
As disastrous as the ravaging of the holocaust in a blazing jungle inferno is the brewing of distrust...
The jungle animals believe that Wambi is responsible for a forest fire that endangers them all.
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Miscellaneous
10
The Scorpion!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as W. B. Hovious]
George Appel
George Appel
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Fantomah, Daughter of the Pharoahs
The Scorpion Cult of Kta (introduction, villains, death); high priest of Kta (introduction, villain, death); Fantomah; Horus; Fury
The cult of the scorpion god, Kata, comes to Khefra to establish a temple.
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Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Pierre La Rue]
Robert Webb
Arnold Hicks ?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Captain Terry Thunder
Bedouins (villains); Terry Thunder; Anderson the Arab; Kismet; Vincent
Bedouins...Africa's craftiest, deadliest nomad tribe -- strike again...
Terry receives word that a nearby outpost is being besieged by Bedouins and rides with his lancers to the rescue. However, it is a trap and Terry and his men are captured and then rescued by Andy and the gang.
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Miscellaneous
7
The Jungle Empress

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Tom O'Neill]
typeset
Subject Matter
jungle
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Miscellaneous
3
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Mackenzie]
Richard Case
Richard Case
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle
Magla (introduction, villain, death); The Zugos (African tribe)(introduction); Timo (rhinoceros)
Deep in the jungle, strange companions march silently side by side...
A white woman with a trained rhinoceros steals the idol of the Zugos. Tabu recovers the statue and returns it.
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Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Camilla
Trader Davis; Josephine Jordan (introduction); Jim Rodney (introduction); Akkua (introduction); Silkidor (introduction, villain, death); Moko (introduction, villain, death); Camilla; Obogos (African tribe)
The message a harmless note...but between its lines was doom for Queen Camilla!
Josephine Jordan, Camilla's cousin (unknown to both Josephine and Camilla), is in the jungle with attorney Jim Rodney to try and learn the fate of Josephine's uncle, Camilla's father. She is kidnapped by a European criminal and rescued by Camilla with help from the Obongos.
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Miscellaneous
10
The previous indexer credited the art to Nick Cardy, but Tony Rose has strong reservations regarding that identification, 03-09-2015.

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