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Issue: Bomba the Jungle Boy #5
Publication Date: May 1968
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 03/21/1968
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 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
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Tampu Lives... Bomba Dies!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure, jungle
Bomba; Tina
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Miscellaneous
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Tampu Lives -- Bomba Dies! [Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, jungle
Bomba; Tina; Manco; Doto (monkey); Kawkaw (eagle); Kokor (jaguar)
Terror stalks the impenetrable jungles
A tribal idol comes to life and attacks Bomba and Tina.
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8.5
Tampu Lives -- Bomba Dies! Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, jungle
Bomba; Tina; Manco
Late that same night
An impostor has taken the place of Manco the medicine man, and is secretly behind the living idol. He sends Bomba and Tina on a fake mission to get them out of the way.
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Miscellaneous
6.5
From Us --- to You, Only the Best!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
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house ad for Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #147 [80 Page Giant #G-47]
[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
informational
Mr. Mason, the druggist, gave me some empty medicine capsules...
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Miscellaneous
0.5
6631
hint submitted by Brian Welsh of Toronto, Ontario
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (logo illustration)
? (logo illustration)
? (logo illustration)
typeset
Subject Matter
Drumbeats for Bomba
Hey, friends...
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letters submitted by Don R. Smith, Penny Cox, Richard Beattie, Selena Zane, Keith Brock, Steven Oliva.
Tampu Lives -- Bomba Dies! Part 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, jungle
Bomba; Tina; Manco
The giant reptile hesitates between its targets
Bomba defeats the living idol, revealed to be a robot, and the impostor is killed by the falling machine.
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Miscellaneous
6.5
[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
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listing of DC comics on sale in mid-March 1968; includes cover art from The Doom Patrol (DC, 1964 series) #119 and Plastic Man (DC, 1966 series) #10

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