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Wizard of the Whirling Doom

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Kaänga

Character(s): Kaänga; Ann Mason

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Pages: 1

Notes: Cover is 'Doolin-esque' but unlikely to be by him.

Wizard of the Whirling Doom

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Frank Riddell]

Penciller(s): John Celardo

Inker(s): John Celardo

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Kaänga

Character(s): D'Hama (introduction; villain; death); Bonako (introduction; death); Kaänga; Ann Mason; Sulakis (African tribe)

Synopsis: Kaänga and Ann visit the village of Tonga, where their friend Bonako is to celebrate his chieftanship by use of a ritual bow. The witch doctor, D'Hama, spoils the ceremony by poisoning the bowstring and causing an arrow to be shot from hiding, killing Bonako. Kaänga exposes the trick and D'Hama is killed by the tribe.

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Pages: 10

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

first line: "'B-r-r-umbah! Hark to the juju demon drums!'"

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? [as Ed Hunt]

Penciller(s): August Froehlich (signed)

Inker(s): August Froehlich (signed)

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Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Simba, King of Beasts

Character(s): Simba; N'gura (leopard)

First Line: The foolishness of man manifests itself in many ways...

Synopsis: When lightning starts a forest fire that traps many of the animals of his kingdom, Simba instructs the elephants in the building of a dam, in imitation of some natives he had seen earlier. The dam diverts the river, quenching the fire.

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Pages: 6

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): Charles Sultan

Inker(s): Charles Sultan

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Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Captain Terry Thunder

Character(s): Gail (introduction); N'Muli (introduction; villain); Nuba (introduction; villain); Bwana One-Eye (introduction; villain); Terry Thunder; Trader Brown; Keeto

First Line: Di-bor Mon-Dombe! 'Juju devil wind,' the natives called this unseen terror...

Synopsis: Raiders take the jungle fever drugs that Terry had promised to the natives at N'gwando. He and the lancers, joined by the commissioner's daughter, steam upriver and take back the drugs.

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Pages: 7

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): Frank Doyle

Inker(s): Frank Doyle

Colorist(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Wambi, The Jungle Boy

Character(s): Mogawa (introduction; villain; death)(leopard); Wambi; Garno (deer); Chika (gibbon); Tawn; Ogg; Ahizar (cobra); Ragana (eagle); Laka (water buffalo); Sirdah (tiger)

First Line: Jungle law ruled ages ago that man hides more cunning than the jackal...

Synopsis: When a deer is accidentally killed through the discharge of a discarded rifle that he stumbles over, the animals all believe that Wambi has reverted to man's ways. It is only through the animals overhearing Mogawa describe what happened that Wambi is exonerated.

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Pages: 6

No. 4: Richard Burton

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Mike Peppe (signed)

Inker(s): Mike Peppe (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: informational

Feature(s): Men of Adventure

Synopsis: Sir Richard Burton biography.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Illustrated text story.

Kraal of the Dead

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? [as Mack]

Penciller(s): Maurice Whitman (signed)

Inker(s): Maurice Whitman (signed)

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Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Tabu

Character(s): Karl (introduction; villain); Vera (introduction; villain; death); Zaraba (introduction); M'Buli (introduction; death); Tabu

Synopsis: Ivory hunters murder any natives who spy them stealing fossil ivory from a volcano-destroyed village. Tabu arrives and allows the criminals to be gored and stomped by draft oxen.

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Pages: 6

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? [as Victor Ibsen]

Penciller(s): Bob Lubbers

Inker(s): Bob Lubbers

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Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Camilla

Character(s): Sandra (introduction); Tibu (introduction); Neesi (introduction); Daniel Thompson (introduction; villain; death); Mansunis (introduction; villains); Camilla; Fang (dog)

First Line: Oil! The liquid gold that man eternally seeks...

Synopsis: Oil woman Sandra's partner, Thompson, attempts to prevent the filing of a joint deed to their oil claim in order to have it all for himself. Camilla exposes his plotting and Thompson is killed in an oil fire.

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Jungle Girls #4 published January 1992
as Oil! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 8