Issue | #4 |
Published | 1992 |
Cover Price | 2.75 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Bill Black; Bill Feret (Contributing Editor) |
Genre | Jungle |
Pencils | Bill Black (signed) |
Inks | Bill Black (signed) |
Notes | Based on splash panel of Camilla story in JUNGLE COMICS (Fiction House, 1940 series) #100 (April 1948) by Matt Baker, which is reprinted in JUNGLE GIRLS #7 |
Synopsis | Editorial; article about Irish McCalla, including 1950s photo of her as Sheena (larger version of photo is on back cover of JUNGLE GIRLS #5) |
Script | Bill Black |
Notes | Inside front cover |
Characters | Tara; Saul Blazewell (villain); Kongaa, a gorilla; Mr. Frankovich |
Synopsis | Blazewell, a disgruntled special effects man unleashes a mechanical gorilla that battles Tara during a publicity appearance for a film. After defeating the robot, Tara goes Blazewell's house and finds him with the real gorilla from the movie. When Blazewell sends another mechanical contraption against Tara, Kongaa defends her. Director Frankovich shows up with the police but Tara convinces him to hire Blazewell instead of pressing charges. |
Genre | Jungle |
Script | Bill Black |
Pencils | Dick Ayers |
Inks | Bill Black, Mark Heike |
Characters | Tiger Girl; Abdola |
Synopsis | Cattle are mysteriously stampeding. Investigating, Tiger Girl is netted by Wantu pygmy warriors and fights her way free. She tracks her assailants to a herd of rhinos, which also suddenly stampede. She discovers the pygmies underwater, spearing the animals; she breaks their breathing reeds and they drown. |
Genre | Jungle |
Pencils | Matt Baker |
Inks | Matt Baker |
Notes | Art credit from FIGHT COMICS #42 listing in GCD, where story is called "[Bloody Hoof-Prints!]" |
Reprinted | from FIGHT COMICS #42 (February 1946) |
Characters | Camilla; Sandra; Tibu; Daniel Thompson (villain); Neesi |
Synopsis | While Tibu is running to file a deed to an oil discovery for Sandra and Thompson, Thompson shoots him; Camilla saves him. Thompson bribes the Mansuni tribe to attack Sandra at the camp and murder all the porters. They lash Sandra to a canoe and send her over a waterfall, but Camilla saves her and Thompson dies in the fray. |
Genre | Jungle |
Pencils | Bob Lubbers |
Inks | Bob Lubbers |
Reprinted | from JUNGLE COMICS (1940 series) #97 (January 1948) |
Characters | Sheena; Bob; Sylvia Montross; Chief M'Kuli (villain); Brad Carter (villain); Dr. Montross |
Synopsis | Sheena and Bob rescue Sylvia, under attack by natives, and they offer to escort her. While Sheena is separated from them, Bob and Sylvia are taken prisoner; Sheena rescues them but their canoe is attacked by a giant squid. It turns out to be a submarine, which brings Bob and Sylvia to the hidden island where Brad Carter rules supreme. Sylvia tries to ransom her father off the island, Carter plans to kill them all, Bob, Sylvia, and her father escape in the sub and Sheena battles Carter to his death. |
Genre | Jungle |
Pencils | Robert Hayward Webb |
Inks | Robert Hayward Webb |
Notes | Title from cover of JUMBO COMICS (1940 series) #110. |
Reprinted | from JUMBO COMICS (1940 series) #110 |
Characters | Sheena [modeled by Irish McCulla] |
Genre | Jungle |
Pencils | ? (photograph) |
Inks | ? (photograph) |
Colors | ? (photograph) |
Notes | Still from 1950s TV show |