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CATALOG RECORD

Jungle Comics #66

Fiction House · Series began 1940 · June 1945

Dates

Cover date
June 1945
On sale
April 16, 1945
Pages
52

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Joe Doolin, Ruben Moreira, Bob Webb, Richard Case, Howard Larsen, Marcia Snyderinks: Joe Doolin, Ruben Moreira, Matt Baker, Richard Case, Howard Larsen, Marcia Snyderscript: Frank Riddell, Roy L. Smith, Pierre La Rue, Ed Hunt, Victor Ibsen

Stories

  • Fire-Birds from the Sky! · 12 pages

    Bronson, an unscrupulous con man convinces the Tulagis that he commands the sky gods, using hot air balloons in his deception. Kaänga exposes him and watches him fall to his death.

  • Untitled · 8 pages

    A muezzin uses the call to prayer to hypnotize a group of apes. He plans to use them in his vengeance plot against the local sheikh by having them kill the sheikh's daughter before his very eyes. Wambi rescues the girl and frees the apes from the muezzin's control.

  • Untitled · 5 pages

    Suspecting that a troupe of dancing girls are being kept as slaves, Terry sends Keeto back to the outpost while following the troupe. As Terry is about to be killed by the slave master Orovitch, Keeto arrives with the lancers.

  • Untitled · 2 pages

    The story of how elephants are domesticated and how they are used.

  • Untitled · 6 pages

    A band of thieving mandrills are plaguing the M'naghlis. Tabu agrees to end their pillaging if the M'naghlis will give up collecting tribute from their neighbors. Bgama, the princess, refuses, but her witch doctor secretly tells Tabu that he will make her give up tribute. Tabu then leads the mandrills to a crocodile-infested pool, where they are eaten. When he returns to the village, disguised as a girl bringing a tribute of fruit, Bgama attempts to kill him for not bringing something more valuable. Tabu calls an elephant from the bush who crushes Bgama to death.

  • The Beast with a Thousand Teeth · 2 pages
  • Untitled · 5 pages

    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.

  • Untitled · 8 pages

    Camilla prevents the assassination of a chief by his witch doctor.

Reprinted in

Kaänga Comics (1949)

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