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Live Sacrifice

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Bob Powell

Inker(s): Bob Powell

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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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: Easy money for you!

Synopsis: An in-house promotional advertisement soliciting advertising copy from readers who are to send in their copy along with four coupons from Fiction House comics.

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Pages: 1

Notes: inside front cover

Live Sacrifice

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? [as Red Bradey]

Penciller(s): George Tuska

Inker(s): George Tuska

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Kaänga

Character(s): Kaänga; Red Longjohn (introduction); Romey (introduction, villain); the Monkey Men (introduction, villains, death); Ann Mason; Lethor (lion)

Synopsis: Kaänga guides an explorer to a lost valley inhabited by descendents of ancient Romans and cannibalistic monkey me.

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Pages: 10

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first line: "A search for the lost valley into whose depths many an adventurer has vanished,..."

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Taylor Martin]

Penciller(s): Arthur Peddy

Inker(s): Arthur Peddy

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): The Red Panther

Character(s): The Red Panther; Boku (introduction, villain, death)

First Line: Black beady-eyed vultures circle around an isolated part of the jungle.

Synopsis: The Panther restores a deposed chief to his position in his village.

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Pages: 5

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Ted Carter]

Penciller(s): Bob Powell

Inker(s): Bob Powell

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Camilla

Character(s): Camilla; Caredodo [becomes Sir Champion] (guest); Mephistopheles (introduction, villain); Temptation (introduction, villain); Satan (introduction, villain); The Angel of Faith (introduction)

First Line: After her narrow escape from the salt mines...

Synopsis: Camilla and Caredodo brave the Cave of Sighs, the entrance to the supernatural underworld. Captured by Satan, Camilla carves a crosses that repulses the monster. The Angel of Faith rescues them and rewards Caredodo by transforming him from an ugly hunchback into a tall, handsome knight. Camilla dubs him "Sir Champion" and makes him her prime minister.

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Pages: 6

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Courtney Thomason]

Penciller(s): Nick Cardy

Inker(s): Nick Cardy

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Roy Lance

Character(s): Roy Lance; Prof. Manners (introduction); Faith Manners (introduction); Joe Manners (introduction, villain); Champ (gorilla)

First Line: The jungle lust for gold drives brother against brother in combat as savage as the primitive beasts and natives!

Synopsis: Joe Manners captures his explorer brother and plans to murder him to secure his inheritance. Roy attempts to rescue the explorer and only succeeds with the assistance of a tribe of giant gorillas.

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Pages: 6

The Claw of Simba

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? [as Bob Clark]

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Character(s): Ran-Tog

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Fletcher Hanks (signed)[as Barclay Flagg]

Penciller(s): Fletcher Hanks (signed)[as Barclay Flagg]

Inker(s): Fletcher Hanks (signed)[as Barclay Flagg]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Fletcher Hanks

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Fantomah

Character(s): Fantomah

First Line: She has discovered a plot by crooks to enslave the inhabitants of a native village...

Synopsis: A group of criminals enslave a village in Fantomah's jungle in order to use them as labor in a diamond mine. Fantomah frees the slaves and takes the four criminals to the Secret Pit of Jungle Horrors where she transforms the four into one man and abandons him to his horrible fate.

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I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! #[nn] published June 2007
as Diamond Thieves [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): William M. Allison

Inker(s): William M. Allison

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Simba, King of the Beasts

Character(s): Simba

First Line: Simba, out for a stroll along a favorite trail...

Synopsis: A wounded Simba makes friends with a wounded white girl, lost from her safari. Simba escorts her back to her father where they discover that the father is being tortured by criminals looking for his stash of gold. Simba rescues the man but then he, the father, and the daughter fall into a tiger trap and the criminals begin to bury them alive. Simba call on his animal subjects to rescue them.

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Pages: 5

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): Bill Bossert

Inker(s): Bill Bossert

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Captain Terry Thunder of the Congo Lancers

Character(s): Captain Terry Thunder; Gloria Frazier; Abou Ben Ali (introduction, villain); Kismet (camel); Slim Lennon; Tubs Hedge; Sahabid

First Line: Miss Gloria Frazier's visit to Terry's fort is nearly over.

Synopsis: Gloria is tricked into a treasure hunt by an Arab merchant who then kidnaps her. Terry rescues her and his two men that he ordered to accompany her on her hunt.

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Pages: 7

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Robert Lewis]

Penciller(s): Charles Sultan

Inker(s): Charles Sultan

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle

Character(s): Tabu; the wind-god (introduction, villain); a witch doctor (introduction); Sirocco

First Line: A terrible wind, blowing over Africa, turns villages into a shambles and bends century old trees to the ground...

Synopsis: To prevent the destruction of a village, Tabu imprisons a wind spirit. This angers the wind god who sends terrible storms, lightning, and a tornado to the village. Tabu agrees to release the spirit if the god will never attack the village again. The god agrees. Once the winds are gone, the villagers discover that their valley is no longer fertile. Tabu transforms four slain elephants into banana, coconut, and breadfruit trees.

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Pages: 8

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ? [as Stan Johnson]

Penciller(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: informational

Feature(s): Jungle Facts

First Line: In daylight, lions will not attack unprovoked.

Synopsis: Folklore regarding lions and elephants.

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Pages: 1

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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): Wambi; the provincial governor (introduction); the governor's wife (introduction); Kathy (the governor's daughter) (introduction); Kaga (crocodile); Toga; Ongagis (African tribe); Tawn (elephant); Rouma (lion); Kaa (python); Core (condor); Ogg (ape); Dirk

First Line: In the midst of a laughing water game, Wambi hears a strange sound...

Synopsis: The provincial governor's daughter is kindapped and held for ransom, but she is rescued by Wambi and his jungle friends.

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Pages: 7

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: if you want quality comic magazines -- look for the bull's-eye when you buy!

Synopsis: An in-house promotional advertisement for Fiction House's Planet Comics, Fight Comics, and Jumbo Comics.

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Pages: 1

Notes: inside back cover

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: This beautiful desk for only $1.00

Synopsis: An advertisement for the Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter from Remington Rand, Incorporated. Purchases of the typewriter may also buy a desk for one dollar.

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Notes: back cover