Jungle Comics #129
Fiction House
United States
- Published
- September 1950
- Page count
- 52
- Cover price
- 0.10 USD
- Colour
- Unknown
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/8444
Credits
- Editing
- John Mitchell, editor [credited as John C. Mitchell]
- S. M. Iger, Art Director [credited as Jerry Iger]
- Management
- J. F. Byrne, Managing Editor [credited]
Issue contents
Cover
The Captives of Crocodile Swamp
(Kaänga)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- Kaänga
- Genre
- Jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga
Credits
- Art
- , line art (Iger Shop)
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Reprint history
1Featuring
- Feature
- Kaänga
- Genre
- Jungle
- Characters
- Kaänga; Ann Mason; Zulu; El Borro; Morrison; Dolly Morrison; Craig Gordon
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter [as Frank Riddell]
- Art
- Maurice Whitman, line art [signed]
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
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- Also printed
-
Jungle Comics (HJ Edwards, 1950? series) #8 ([May 1951?]) — Untitled [The Captives of Crocodile Swamp]
Synopsis
Kaänga puts an end to slave raiding by El Borro.
Notes
The story title is taken from the cover blurb.
first line: "Friend Kaänga, I need your help and advice desperately."
2"Two things did Simba, monarch of the Congo, fear..."
Featuring
- Feature
- Simba
- Genre
- Animal; jungle
- Characters
- Simba
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter [as Ed Hunt]
- Art
- Richard Case, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
Villagers and white hunters pursue a rogue elephant that leads them into Simba's territory. Simba attacks the elephant and wounds it. The hunters arrive and kill it.
Notes
Simba's next appearance is in Wambi (Fiction House, 1942 series) #14.
3"Ever on the alert for contraband, smuggled arms and loot, the lancer duties include a careful search of the equipment of all who enter or leave the jungle wilds..."
Featuring
- Feature
- Captain Terry Thunder
- Genre
- Adventure
- Characters
- Terry Thunder; Keeto; Miss Ross; Abu ben Hassin; bar Jebel
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter [as Pierre La Rue]
- Art
- Ken Battefield, penciller
- , penciller (Iger Shop)
- Jack Kamen , inker
- , inker (Iger Shop)
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
Terry escorts Miss Ross to an oasis where they will meet with the ivory thief, Abu ben Hassin. Terry arrests Hassin but then the group is attacked by another party of raiders, working secretly for Miss Ross. Terry then signals the hidden lancers under Keeto's command and take the lot into custody.
4"'An evil-doer is best defeated by his own weapons...'"
Featuring
- Feature
- Wambi, The Jungle Boy
- Genre
- Jungle
- Characters
- Wambi; Ogg; Helma; Sirdah (tiger); the rajah; Tawn
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Henry Kiefer, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
The rajah's daughter is taken hostage by men who would usurp his rule. Wambi uses hornets to attack the kidnappers and saves the princess.
5"In the year 1929 I was giving..."
Featuring
- Feature
- The Big Cage
- Genre
- Non-fiction
Credits
- Writing
- Clyde Beatty, author
- Text
- , typeset
6"The jungle stands like a huge death-trap..."
Featuring
- Feature
- Tabu
- Genre
- Jungle
- Characters
- Tabu; Merrill [Bassumi]; Doctor Finney; Lorutis (African tribes); Adaki
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter [as Mack]
- Art
- Enrico Bagnoli, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
The Lorutis confuse Merrill, a member of Finney's exploration safari and dressed in a deep sea diving suit, with a god and want to sacrifice the rest of the party. Tabu intervenes and the party is saved.
7"It hung now in the mistland of memory,..."
Featuring
- Feature
- Camilla
- Genre
- Jungle
- Characters
- Camilla; Fang (dog); Nygailas (African tribe); Ben Bennett; K'ailu; Mabaro
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter [as Victor Ibsen]
- Art
- Ralph Mayo, line art [signed]
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
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Synopsis
Bennett and his gang of thieves buy hunting rights on the Nygailas' land. Mabaro, long-thought mad by his people, recognizes Bennett as the leader of the thieves who looted the Nygailas many years before and beat Mabaro and killed his father. He tells his story to Camilla who helps expose Bennett's new thieving of treasure.
Indicia
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