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Issue: Jungle Comics #50 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1944
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Issues: #50 of 163 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Glen-Kel Pub. Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): John C. Mitchell (credited)
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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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Juggernaut of the Bush

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Joe Doolin
Inker(s): Joe Doolin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Kaänga
Character(s): Kaänga; Ann Mason
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Pages: 1
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Juggernaut of the Bush

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Frank Riddell]
Penciller(s): Jim Mooney (signed)
Inker(s): Jim Mooney (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Kaänga
Character(s): Kaänga; Ann Mason; Alicia Brown; leopard cultists; Katuas (African tribe); N'geeso; Bantus (African tribe); Dorga
Synopsis: In order to win a horse race, Dorga, chief of the Katuas, steals a white woman's horse and kidnaps Ann to ride it.
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Pages: 12
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first line: "Deep in the jungle..."
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Ed Hunt]
Penciller(s): R. L. Golden ?; ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Simba, King of Beasts
Character(s): Simba; Abu Landhu; Tiku (monkey); Abdah
First Line: Simba's jungle is again invaded when two richly-clad Arabs, envoys of the Sheik of Shalah arrive to hunt ivory...
Synopsis: A pair of Arabs enter Simba's jungle, looking for the elephants' graveyard. They shoot and wound a mother elephant and then track her to the graveyard. Meanwhile, Simba protects the soon-to-be orphaned calf. Then he leads an elephant herd to the graveyard where they trample the Arabs to death.
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Pages: 6
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The Terror of the Talking Pool

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as "Mac"]
Penciller(s): Ruben Moreira ?
Inker(s): Ruben Moreira
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Tabu
Character(s): Meega; Tabu
Synopsis: A tribe's witch doctor convinces their queen that she has the power of prophecy. He uses her prediction of death to extort gifts from the people, which he appropriates. Tabu exposes him and he is hanged by the tribe.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Roy L. Smith]
Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer
Inker(s): Henry Kiefer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Character(s): Jack; Rajah (tiger); Ogg; Wambi; Tawn; Ngandas (African tribe); Manto (tiger)
First Line: You know, Jack, we'll have to capture a large tiger for that specialty act in our new circus!
Synopsis: Hunters looking for a tiger for their circus capture Rajah. Wambi then offers to trade the white men the cruel tiger, Manto, for Rajah. The hunters agree and then doublecross Wambi by imprisoning him and both tigers. Tawn comes to the rescue and the hunters are killed by Manto.
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Pages: 9.67
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: J.G. Scott is given as the owner of Glen-Kel Publishing Company, Inc.
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: located on bottom one-third of page 3 of the Wambi story.
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Bush Law

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Ned King]
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as W. B. Hovious]
Penciller(s): George Appel
Inker(s): George Appel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Fantomah, Daughter of the Pharoahs
Character(s): Fantomah; Horus; Laän; Shep-hut; Fury
First Line: Great sorrow mantles Khefra, for Fantomah's court physician is dead.
Synopsis: Laän drugs court physician Shep-hut so that he falls into a death-like sleep. Laän hopes to be appointed to the vacant post so that he will close enough to Fantomah to assassinate her and assume her throne. When his plot is exposed, Fantomah orders him and his wife sealed in the tomb that had been prepared for the now-recovered Shep-hut.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Pierre La Rue]
Penciller(s): Richard Case
Inker(s): Richard Case
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Terry Thunder
Character(s): Anderson the Arab; Vino (donkey); Hakim; Irita; Terry Thunder; Ibn Saud
First Line: A young lad and his faithful old servant ride over the sun-burnt desert sands...
Synopsis: The son of an Arab sheik is kidnapped and must be rescued by Terry and Andy.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Victor Ibsen]
Penciller(s): George Tuska (signed)
Inker(s): George Tuska (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Camilla, Queen of the Jungle
Character(s): Camilla; Watumbas (African tribe); Matu; Anuka (elephant); Cari
First Line: Trader Davis told me never to tell this story.
Synopsis: Camilla is washed down a river to a land where dinosaurs have survived to the present day. Also present are a tribe with artificial wings and packs of dingos.
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Pages: 10

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