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Jungle Comics #097 [Jan'48]-52pg-c2c

Issue: #97
Published: January 1948, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Cover; Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. (early Issues); Standard Silver Age U.S. (later Issues) Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Wizard of the Whirling Doom
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Kaänga Ann Mason

Comic Story (10 pages)	Wizard of the Whirling Doom
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.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	D'Hama (introduction Villain Death) Bonako (introduction Kaänga Ann Mason Sulakis (African Tribe)

Comic Story (6 pages)
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.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Simba N'gura (leopard)

Comic Story (7 pages)
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.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Gail (introduction) N'Muli (introduction Villain) Nuba (introduction Bwana One-Eye (introduction Terry Thunder Trader Brown Keeto

Comic Story (6 pages)
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.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Mogawa (introduction Villain Death)(leopard) Wambi Garno (deer) Chika (gibbon) Tawn Ogg Ahizar (cobra) Ragana (eagle) Laka (water Buffalo) Sirdah (tiger)

Text Story (5 pages)	No. 4: Richard Burton
Featuring:	Men of Adventure
Synopsis:	Sir Richard Burton biography.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Non-fiction

Comic Story (6 pages)	Kraal of the Dead
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.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Mack]
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Karl (introduction Villain) Vera (introduction Villain Death) Zaraba (introduction) M'Buli (introduction Tabu

Comic Story (8 pages)	Oil!
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.
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Sandra (introduction) Tibu (introduction) Neesi (introduction) Daniel Thompson (introduction Villain Death) Mansunis (introduction Villains) Camilla Fang (dog)

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