Jungle Comics (1940 Fiction House) comic books 1951

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Bondage cover, possibly by Maurice Whitman. "Scourge of the Soudan," art by Maurice Whitman; Believing Kaänga to be their legendary hero, Queen Amra and her amazons kidnap Ann in order to force Kaänga to help them against the apemen that threaten their kingdom; Kaänga does as he is compelled and defeats the apemen; The queen frees Ann and she and Kaänga return to their jungle. Untitled story; Captain Terry Thunder and undercover intelligence agent Shaw break up a diamond smuggling ring. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Attempting to reach a river island, Wambi is swept away and taken for a river god by a distant, down-river tribe; Unable to escape, he sends two leopards to fetch Tawn and Ogg who rescue him. Untitled story, art by Enrico Bagnoli; An evil goddess sends Tabu a false vision but he trusts his instincts and rescues a couple from the Jhontas. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; When Chief Nabilo is wounded by a leopard, Camilla goes to the herbalist Harana for help; She learns that Harana no longer has powers since her temple was desecrated by K'tonga; Only with K'tonga's death will her powers be restored. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; Thieves pursue a steamboat captain and a cache of diamonds; Kaänga helps the captain's daughter locate the captain and defeats the thieves. Untitled story, pencils by Ken Battefield; Captain Terry Thunder captures the brother of slaver El Dakar; He then puts on an exhibition of his camel corps, hoping to draw El Dakar to the confusion at the fort. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Prospectors occupy the waterhole in Wambi's jungle; Wambi, demanding their departure, is captured; The prospectors are then routed from the waterhole by a pair of rhinoceroses that believe the prospectors have threatened their young. Untitled story; Tabu helps a couple recover their kidnapped daughter, who is being used by some criminals to convince the Natubi tribe that she is the "White Maiden" their legends tell will one day reappear. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Plotting to take over the Borden trading post, Steele and Cain kidnap young Skipper Borden; At the same time, the Wasulis' witch doctor schemes to become chief by using trained eagles to cow the tribe; Camilla exposes the witch doctor as a greedy fraud and looses the eagles on the kidnappers to recover the boy. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; Witchdoctor N'gola plots with criminals Dawson and Potter to drive the Sandses from their mine; While Ann helps hold off the Dar-fungs (attacking at N'gola instigation), Kaänga exposes the witchdoctor as a fraud. Untitled story, pencils by Ken Battefield; Terry assumes the guise of the recently deceased Desert Panther, a staunch opponent of slavers in the area. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Sirdah tricks the Tuareks into believing that Wambi has desecrated their idol; When Tawn and Ogg go to investigate, they are captured; Wambi frees them and tricks Sirdah into battle with the warriors. Untitled story; Through the use of a mind-control gas, Tabu is tricked into getting a pair of animal thieves safe passage into the Akoonas' kraal; He recovers in time to prevent the theft of the Akoonas' animals and to capture the thieves. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Ugago is accused of leading white looters to the Zagounas' temple; Camilla discovers it was done by placing a radio tracker on Ugago and convinces the tribe. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

"The Death Kraals of Kongola," art by Maurice Whitman; Kaänga and Ann assist the Jaluos in defending themselves from the war-like Khargas. Untitled story, pencils by Ken Battefield; Colonel Withers leads Terry's camel corps into the desert to capture the raider, Sharane; Terry suggests that Withers ask for the help of the Desert Panther, but Withers declines; When the corps is captured, Terry escapes and assumes his guise as the Panther and leads the Panther's men to Withers's rescue and also manages to capture Sharane. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi steals the idol of the Tuareks in order to force them to share the jungles food resources. Untitled story; Trader Craig elects to punish the Buhutus after they decline to trade with him on Tabu's advice; He disguises himself as a ghost of a defeated Buhutu foe in order to frighten them into leaving their kraal. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Treasure thieves Curtis and Hanley steal the Ugandas sacred gold. The Ugandas believe that the Bagamoyos are guilty of the theft; Camilla captures the true thieves and averts a war. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; A treasure hunter impersonates a Dyola god in order to exploit an ancient treasure trove. Kaänga exposes the impostor. Untitled story, pencils by Robert Webb; Terry and the undercover Agent X-5 capture Tanya Karga, a slaver and smuggler. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi and his jungle friends destroy a dam built by prospectors. Untitled story; Thieves Brad and Fargo take a sacred idol but are cursed by the goddess of the idol; one is killed and the other becomes blind. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Safari guides Shane, Jake, and Marty hope to steal anthropologist Harris's safari gear to sell to Arab traders; Knowing that Harris is seeking the Zoualas (who long left this country), they send out signal drum messages that there is to be a sacrifice at the old Zouala temple in order to draw Harris to them. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Track of the Black Terror," art by Maurice Whitman; Ann is taken prisoner by the slaver, Queen Cobra. Kaänga must first traverse the country of the king apes and defeat their leader before he can free Ann. Untitled story, pencils by Ken Battefield; In order to learn the location of slaver al Raskobah hideout, Captain Terry Thunder, disguised as the Desert Panther frees Raskobah and accompanies him into the desert; Raskobah attacks Terry and exposes his identity; Raskobah then disguises himself as the Panther. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; As part of a practical joke, Wambi gives Ogg drugged fruit; A rhinoceros attacks a mouse deer; Tawn falls into a tiger trap; Needing Ogg's help, Wambi calls for him, but because he has been drugged, he does not respond; After getting the help of the monkeys, Wambi frees Tawn who is very angry with Ogg. Ogg and Tawn both leave Wambi in anger. Untitled story; Tabu tells the story of N'kulu of the G'zongas and how he was sustained in the wilderness by the lion god and returned to his people to take his rightful chieftainship. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Camilla is guiding a trading caravan to a mine; The caravan is attacked by Benson and his men, taking the weapons bound for the mine; Camilla goes to the mine and gets the owners and, with them, they go after Benson and recover the guns. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

"Captain Kidd of the Congo," art by Maurice Whitman; Gratz is looting his own caravans in order to distract the district police from the looting of sacred places that he's doing; He takes Ann captive in order to control Kaänga. Untitled story; Tabu tells the story of the Densin brothers; The Densins are archaeologists, exploring ruins in Rhodesia; They find evidence that the temple is of Egyptian origin; Then they enter a room where a pharaoh is ordering the execution of a beast man. Untitled story; Terry Thunder returns to Fort Diablo and makes a visit to his mining friend, Jim Reeves; He is accompanied by Lieutenant Dager, who had been in command of the fort until Terry's return; Terry finds that Reeves has been imprisoned in his own mine by Dager and his girlfriend who are stealing diamonds. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi organizes the jungle to drive a human tribe that has come to Wambi's jungle out. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Trader Warren is ambushed by his nephews, hoping to prevent him from presenting evidence of their crimes to the district commissioner; Warren falls under the protection of Sheikh Ali Kabrit; The nephews kidnap the sheikh's daughter; Camilla rescues the daughter and captures the nephews. 52 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

"The Monsters of Kilmanjabo," art by Maurice Whitman; Kaänga, Ann, and Zulu aid the Walesas against the men of King Zando, who has vowed to destroy them. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; When Wambi asks Tawn and Ogg for their help in returning a hippo calf to its mother, they refuse, saying they owe nothing to the calf; Later, when Tawn's calf is endangered by native hunters, the hippo mother comes to the rescue; Tawn and Ogg learned a lesson in gratitude. Untitled story; Miss Porter and Kafir plot to make Kafir chief of the Kibalas; Kafir pretends to be blind and is granted entrance to the Kibalas' sacred temple; Once inside, he uses a camera to photograph the idol. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; A pair of crooked traders take the Walsulis' sacred white hippopotamus; Camilla pursues them and recovers the sacred animal; The traders are killed by the other animals they had captured for the circus trade. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; Mark and Sylvia plot to kill Mark's ward, Thorsten, and steal his fortune; Kaänga thwarts them and turns them over to the district commissioner. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; A rhinoceros threatens to tear down a monkey band's fruit trees unless the monkeys bring him hay so he doesn't have to graze in the hot sun; Wambi and his friends free the monkeys from the rhino's tyranny. Untitled story, art by Howard Larsen; Tabu turns a trio of vampire women into hyenas. "Training for the Big Cage" text story by Clyde Beatty. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Renegades Biggs and Blake plan to steal the sacred treasure of the Ape Temple; They disguise themselves as priests, but Camilla exposes them and takes them prisoner for transferal to the district commissioner. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

"Sheba of the Terror Claws," art by Maurice Whitman; A safari finds its way into the Kingdom of Ra, descended from ancient Egypt and ruled by Queen Sheba; Sheba, following the suggestions of her advisor, Toru, imprisons the safari; Toru also advises the sacrifice of Sheba's sister, Landra; Landra flees into the jungle and meets Ann; Sheba's forces take Landra and Ann back to the kingdom; Kaänga follows. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; A marauding band of mandrills attacks the animals of the jungle; Wambi leads them on a game of chase that ends with the mandrills falling into the crocodile pool. Sidney Elias's stamp column covering stamp errors, plus ads. Untitled story, art by Robert Webb; Someone is helping convicts escape as they are sent downriver from Fort Diablo; Captain Terry Thunder follows the boat from the shore; The boat is attacked by Black Karen who takes the prisoners to her camp where they are sprayed with beldine dye, making them appear black. "Killer-Cats in the Big Cage" text story by Clyde Beatty. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; Murdock sets up a native as "Kaboola," a friend to all tribes, stealing from whites and giving the goods to the villages; Camilla learns that Murdock is plotting to have Kaboola lead the tribes into war against the whites that Murdock wants driven from Africa. Kaboola learns that he is being used and kills Murdock; Camilla captures Murdock's men and takes them to the district commissioner. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Untitled story, art by Maurice Whitman; Larsen, a white safari raider, has taken an ape idol and a woman, from a safari; Kaänga frees the woman, and with her, takes the idol back to its rightful place; There, they find the woman's father, left in the pit where Larsen had thrown him; Then, in order to leave, Kaänga must battle the apes of the area. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; A herd of elephants invade Wambi's jungle; Tawn attempts to drive them away but is tricked into a pit; After Wambi gets him out of the pit, Tawn resumes his battle with the strange herd's leader and kills him. Untitled story, art by Robert Webb; Terry and Keeto save the life of Tandu, a woman who lives with elephants; Later, Sue Barton, an ivory hunter posing as a photographer, comes to the jungle and attacks Tandu's herd; The lancers rout Barton's men, while Tandu captures Barton using her elephant friends. "Lightning Hits the Big Cage" text story by Clyde Beatty. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; In an annual contest of strength and daring between the Wasutis and the Buhutus, each side captures a crocodile that the other side must fight; This year the Buhutus are cheating, using a robot crocodile loaned to them by a pair of white renegades; Camilla exposes the fraud and the Wasutis kill the Buhutu chief and the white renegades. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Maurice Whitman. "Quest of the Dragon's Claw," art by Maurice Whitman; Kaänga, disguised, enters the kingship contest of the Bafwasendes in the place of the wounded Nyika; Despite the interference of the witch doctor, Nyika recovers in time to complete the contest on his own. Untitled story, art by Henry Kiefer; Wambi frees a Cape buffalo from a tangled mass of vines; Later, Sirdah attempts to kill Wambi; He is stopped by the grateful Cape buffalo who learns of Wambi's plight from a macaw. Untitled story; Captain Terry Thunder and the lancer go upriver to deal with the murderous Barotes and their priestess. "The Big Top Battles a Storm" text story by Clyde Beatty. Untitled story, art by Ralph Mayo; In an effort to loot a lost Egyptian temple, Reagan a safari guide, hypnotizes a scientist into believing that she is an ancient Egyptian queen; Camilla rescues the scientist and kills the guide. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.