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Salome of the Devil-Cats

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Joe Doolin

Inker(s): Joe Doolin

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Kaänga

Character(s): Kaänga; Ann Mason; Salome

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Pages: 1

Salome of the Devil-Cats

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Frank Riddell]

Penciller(s): John Celardo (signed)

Inker(s): John Celardo (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Kaänga

Character(s): Salome (introduction, villain, death); the Rajah's minister (introduction, villain, death); The Rajah (introduction); Kaänga; Marmo (elephant); T'guans (African tribe); Ann Mason; N'geeso

Synopsis: Salome, a witch, convinces the rajah that she can make him young again. Kaänga determines to expose her as a fraud. Ann exposes Salome as a fraud and is taken prisoner. Salome prooceeds to torture her. Kaänga arrives, rescues Ann, and kills Salome.

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In Content Item: Flag

Kaänga Comics #10 published January 1951
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]heavily modified

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Pages: 11

Notes: The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

first line: "It was a blind jungle lord that traveled to the forbidden Mist Lands..."

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Ed Hunt]

Penciller(s): August Froehlich (signed)

Inker(s): August Froehlich (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Simba, King of Beasts

Character(s): Simba

First Line: Simba, the mighty jungle monarch, hears the sound of nearby conflict...

Synopsis: Simba rescues a jerboa from a gorilla. Later, when Simba, wounded by a pygmy dart, is battling a leopard for the jungle kingship, the jerboa returns the favor and pulls the dart from Simba, enabling him to defeat the leopard.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Froelich's signature is in the final panel.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Mack]

Penciller(s): Richard Case

Inker(s): Richard Case

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Tabu

Character(s): Morgan (introduction, villain, death); Lil (introduction, villain, death); Kobali (introduction); M'Bala (introduction); the Kalembus (introduction); Tabu; Kalembus (African tribe)

First Line: The jungle was swept by a wave of terror...

Synopsis: A pair of treasure hunters raid the village of the Kalembus and kill the king. Tabu places a curse on them and both die before they can get out of the jungle

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Pages: 6

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Mike Peppe ?

Inker(s): Mike Peppe ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Jungle Facts

First Line: Throughout the jungle, the witch doctor is acknowledged as the most powerful member of the tribe .

Synopsis: A description of the responsibilities and practices of a witch doctor.

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Roy L. Smith]

Penciller(s): Gus Schrotter ?

Inker(s): Jack Kamen ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Wambi, The Jungle Boy

Character(s): Professor Malcolm (introduction, villain); Wambi; Ogg; Tawn; Neru (Cape buffalo); Satanic (tiger)

First Line: A blood-maddened despot rises in the jungle to spread a reign of carnage...

Synopsis: A professor visiting the jungle goes mad, believing himself the king of the jungle with power over life and death for all inhabitants. Wambi and his jungle friends manage to rescue the professor just before he is killed by the villagers. The professor shortly recovers his senses.

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Pages: 6

Curse of the Panther Queen

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Frank Riddell]

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Pierre La Rue]

Penciller(s): Bob Lubbers (signed)

Inker(s): Bob Lubbers (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Captain Terry Thunder

Character(s): Konga (introduction, villain); Konga's gang (introduction, villains); Terry Thunder; Keeto; Wadai

First Line: Look upon the map.

Synopsis: Konga, the woman leader of a gang of criminal traders, breaks into the post in order to free her gang.

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Pages: 6

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): George Evans ?

Inker(s): George Evans ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: informational

Feature(s): African Wild Life

First Line: The baby elephant's training starts when he learns that frequent baths keep him clean, cool, and free of bothersome insects.

Synopsis: A brief description of the lessons that elephants must learn as they mature.

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Pages: 1

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Victor Ibsen]

Penciller(s): Fran Hopper (signed)

Inker(s): Fran Hopper; Ruth Atkinson ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Camilla

Character(s): The Devils (introduction, villain); Camilla; T'nargs (African tribe)

First Line: Through the great bronze door Camilla went...

Synopsis: Camilla opens the bronze door in her temple and finds an underground civilization, called the Devils. The Devils have a prisoner, a village woman, that they intend to have killed by wild animals. Camilla rescues the woman and see to it that the Devils' leader is killed by a leopard.

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Pages: 8

Notes: The Devils are an underground tribe who with Latin (and Volta) syntax speak.