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Issue: Jungle Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1940
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Glen Kel Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/06/1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Malcolm Reiss
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 432186.
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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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Title Pages Job Number Notes
Prey of the Slavers
Illustration on Cover, Front
1    
[untitled]
Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)
1   inside front cover
Prey of the Slavers
Story on Interior Page(s)
11   The diaeresis (the two dots over the letter "a") in Kaänga's name are not placed consistently between the story and the cover.

Kaänga appeared previously in Fiction House's JUNGLE STORIES pulp; The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

first line: "Kaänga, mysterious white man of the jungle, is..."
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
6   Signed by "Taylor Martin" and since several of the artists involved did sign their names to their features in this first issue, we'll guess Martin.
The Slave Raiders
Story on Interior Page(s)
8   Spelled "Taboo" on cover.

Story title taken from cover.

first line: "Deep in the heart of the jungle reigns a man with a sixth sense..."
Queen of the Lost Empire
Story on Interior Page(s)
8   The story title is taken from the cover blurb. Outline of story is similar to Camilla story in Jungle Comics #2, though she dies in this story.
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
7    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
6   This is signed George Wilson, so we're inclined to use that as our guess. It's such amateurish stuff that almost anybody could have done it.
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
Drums of the Leopard Men
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
[untitled]
Advertisement on Interior Page(s)
1   inside back cover
[untitled]
Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)
1   back cover

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