Jungle Comics (1940 Fiction House) 90

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Cover art by Joe Doolin. "Skulls for the Altar of Doom!", art by John Celardo; Treasure hunters Riggan and Slade want to capture Ann to offer her to a tribe of white women for sacrifice to their god; To this end, Slade disguises himself as a witch doctor and lures Ann away from the N'logas' village; Kaänga and N'geeso follow and rescue Ann. Untitled story, art by August Froehlich; Mrs. Simba, responding to the cries of a water buffalo being killed by Cape dogs, is believed by the buffalo herd to be the killer herself; Simba searches for clues to her innocence and is given a bit of dog fur from the scene of the crime by a mole. Jungle Lore, art by George Evans; Trivia regarding the uses of various spiders, insects, and lizards of the jungles. Untitled story, art by Charles Sultan; Captain Terry Thunder and Keeto escort a young woman into the interior to find her father and his partner and to see their land claim; The partner, Wrenne, having killed the girl's father, is collecting tribute from villagers with threats of death at the hands of a gorilla idol. "Thirst" text story. Untitled story; A royal brother and sister come to Wambi's jungle seeking a lost gem; Wambi finds it but greed turns the brother and sister against each other and they are then killed by their trained leopard. Untitled story, art by Howard Larsen; Cut throat geologist Neale is working with a lion cult to locate a rare rock specimen; Tabu puts a stop to the cults murdering ways and sees Neale killed by a lion. Untitled story, art by Fran Hopper; Ruthless hunter Curtis captures a sacred white leopard and, through trickery, makes it appear that the leopard will not attack him, thus making him holy to the natives. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.