Digital Comic Museum - Jungle Comics 118 (48 of 52pgs)


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Both sides of the front cover & 46 of 48 pages; no non-house ads. A bhcomics scan!

Issue: #118
Published: October 1949, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: J.F. Byrne (Managing Editor)(credited); John C. Mitchell (credited)
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

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	The Muffled Drums of Doom!
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga

Comic Story (11 pages)	The Muffled Drums of Doom!
Synopsis:	Treasure hunters looting local temples are confronted by Kaänga and his new ward, Toru. The looters are killed by crocodiles.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason Marmo (elephant) Toru Asaki Benson L'tonas (African Tribe) Langley

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Simba, King of Beasts
Synopsis:	Mrs. Simba is caught in a hunter's snare. Kino goes to rouse Simba while Mrs. Simba, trapped, is attacked by mandrills. Simba drives away the mandrills and then gets two elephants to push down the tree that Mrs. Simba is hanging from.
Genre:	Animal Jungle
Characters:	Simba Mrs. Simba Crekar (mandrill) Kino (eagle)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Wild Life
Synopsis:	Trivia about several animals.
Genre:	Non-fiction Nature

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	King of the Congo
Synopsis:	Bertha's mine overseer, in a plan to cover his diamond thefts, convinces Bertha's native laborers to go on strike. When King and Bertha arrive at the mine site, Bertha takes the airplanes control and buzzes the natives, humiliating Sahi, the chief. Sahi orders his men to attack King and Bertha. Jingo interrogates the overseer and the plot is exposed. The overseer is turned over to the district police and Sahi begs Bertha for forgiveness.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Nils Van Duren]
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	King Steve Stone Drake Sahi Bertha Lawton Jingo

Comic Story (5 pages)
Featuring:	Captain Terry Thunder
Synopsis:	Treasure hunters, searching an ancient Carthaginian treasure ship, uses dynamite to block the lancers' steamboat from leaving the fort. But, unknown to the treasure hunters, Terry has a helicopter that he uses to go after the hunters, whom he subdues and takes into custody.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Terry Thunder N'lokis (African Tribe) Kirby Kenyon

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Wambi, The Jungle Boy
Synopsis:	Wambi plays pranks on his jungle friends using stilts, and they shun him. Then, local hunters begin to take captive many of the jungle animals. Tawn refuses Wambi's offer of help and is himself captured, trying to free Ogg. Wambi then uses his stilts to frighten the hunters. He is forgiven for his pranks when he releases his friends.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Wambi Beaky (hawk) Ogg Beebee (monkey) Tawn Sirdah (tiger) Stripo (zebra) Griffo (giraffe)

Text Story (3 pages)	Part 1 - The Freshman Class
Featuring:	The Big Cage
Synopsis:	About training wild animals.
Credits:	Script: Clyde Beatty \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Non-fiction

Comic Story (8 pages)
Synopsis:	Ivory looters take the ivory of Chief Nyoto's people. The looters tell the chief they are in league with Camilla. When Camilla arrives later that day, she is set upon by the tribe. She escapes, catches up with the looters and restores the ivory to the tribe.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Camilla Fang Commissioner Harris Sylvia Harris Larkin Nyoto Nicky Norton Moru

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