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Issue: Jungle Comics #8 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 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: 06/17/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Malcolm Reiss (Editor); William E. Eisner (Art Director); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor)
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Safari into Shadowland

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Bob Powell
Bob Powell
?
typeset
Subject Matter
jungle
Kaänga
Kaänga
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Miscellaneous
1
Safari into Shadowland

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Red Bradey]
George Tuska
George Tuska
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Kaänga
Kaänga; Jim Gorr (introduction, villain); Mogo
Criminals drive out the workers of a diamond mine and bring in their own natives to work the mine. Kaänga, together with a group of black-maned lions, restores the mine to its rightful owners.
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Miscellaneous
10
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

first line: "The black maned lion, terror of the jungle and Kaanga, lord of this dark land..."

Throughout this story, Kaänga's name is spelled without the dieresis.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Taylor Martin]
Arthur Peddy
Arthur Peddy
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
The Red Panther
The Red Panther
Left to die horribly deep in the dark jungle...
After a savage tribe wipes out a group of missionaries, the Panther sees to it that they are punished by a flood that leaves their leader dead.
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Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Robert Lewis]
Charles Sultan
Charles Sultan
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Tabu, Wizard of the Jungle
Tabu; ratmen (introduction, villains); a band of Egyptians (introduction, villains); Dr. Denman Falls
Winding aimlessly through the jungle, Tabu, the great wizard, stumble upon a scene of horror and suffering...
A group of scientists are stricken with a plague after they open an ancient Egyptian tomb in the jungle. Tabu goes to a lost ancient Egyptian outpost for a cure. At the outposts, the descendants of the Egyptians force Tabu to battle and defeat a group of degenerate ratmen and a giant serpent before they give him the cure for the plague.
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Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Ted Carter]
Bob Powell
Bob Powell
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Camilla
Camilla; Sir Champion; Goro (a gorilla)(introduction); Kato Tah-Kee (introduction, villain, death)
During the ball following Sir Champion's knighting, a sentry rushing to the court notifies Queen Camilla of a large enemy army approaching the lost empire.
With the aid of a band of gorillas, Camilla and her army repulse an attack by a medieval Asian army.
Reprinting
FlagDivas, Dames & Daredevils #[nn] published January 2013
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
The Dark Horde

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Bob Clark]
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
jungle
Ran-Tog
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Pierre La Rue]
Bill Bossert
Bill Bossert
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Captain Terry Thunder of the Congo Lancers
Captain Terry Thunder; Yak-Ho (introduction, villain); Kismet (camel)
Kismet, the camel left by Gloria, misbehaves with monotonous regularity.
Yak-ho and his savage tribe attack the peaceful Kadahs. Terry uses a stick of chewing gum as a bribe to stop the attacks, but later must exorcise the evil spirit of the gum with a piece of jewelry.
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Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Roy L. Smith]
Henry Kiefer
Henry Kiefer
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Wambi; The Inga tribe (introduction); Hoag (hawk); Decca (zebra); Ogg (ape); Pan (leopard); Kara (chimpanzee); Tawn (elephant); Dr. Wade
One day, he receives a message from Hoag, the hawk...
The Ingas, weakened by disease, are attacked by the Kurgas. Wambi goes to the military outpost to get both military and medical assistance.
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Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Courtney Thomason]
Nick Cardy
Nick Cardy
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Roy Lance
Roy Lance; Mr. White; June White; Buono
Roy Lance, globe trotter, finds adventure and a girl in the remote heart of Africa...
Roy helps a diamond mine owner find his mine with the aid of the thieves who stole the map to the mine.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
William M. Allison ?
William M. Allison (signed)
William M. Allison (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Simba, King of the Beasts
Simba; Jack Williams (introduction); Ann (introduction); a group of kidnappers (introduction, villain)
Simba is watching the strangest sight of his life...
Simba rescues the pilot of a crashed airplane who is looking for his kidnapped fiance. With the help of Simba and some apes, he frees the girl and captures the kidnappers.
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Miscellaneous
5
The Strange Aardvark; The Bird of Paradise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Stan Johnson]
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
informational
Jungle Facts
A brief natural history of the aardvark and the bird of paradise.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] (signed)
Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] (signed)
Fletcher Hanks [as Barclay Flagg] (signed)
?
Fletcher Hanks
Subject Matter
jungle, occult
Fantomah
Fantomah; Mr. X (introduction, villain); volcano people (introduction)
She sees a white man heading for a secret spot far in the heart of the jungle...
When Mr. X steals a mystical headpiece that causes a boiling mud-pit to overflow into the jungle, he is confronted by Fantomah who transforms him into a mud being and condemns him to live underground forever.
Reprinting
FlagYou Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! #[nn] published June 2009
as The Temple in the Mud Pit [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
First line of text reads: "Fantomah, the most remarkable woman ever known, has such keen insight that she can see all that happens in the jungle... she devotes her great abilities to protecting the jungle-born..."

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